Citizenship Law in Africa: 3rd Edition /

Few African countries provide for an explicit right to a nationality. Laws and practices governing citizenship effectively leave hundreds of thousands of people in Africa without a country. These stateless Africans can neither vote nor stand for office; they cannot enrol their children in school, tr...

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محفوظ في:
التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Manby, Bronwyn (مؤلف)
التنسيق: الكتروني كتاب الكتروني
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
الطبعة:3rd edition.
سلاسل:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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جدول المحتويات:
  • Preface to the third edition
  • Summary and recommendations
  • International norms on nationality
  • Nationality under colonial rule and the transition to independence
  • The basis of nationality law today
  • The right to a nationality in national law
  • Nationality based on birth in the territory
  • Nationality based on descent
  • Adopted children
  • Racial and ethnic discrimination
  • Gender discrimination
  • Dual nationality
  • Naturalisation
  • Nationality requirements for public office
  • Rights for the African diaspora
  • Loss and deprivation of nationality
  • Renunciation and reacquisition
  • Evidence and documentation
  • State successions since independence
  • Naturalisation as a "durable solution" for refugees
  • Appendix : legal sources.