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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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2016
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| Vydání: | 3rd edition. |
| Edice: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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- 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.