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Nationality Law in the Western Hemisphere: A Study on Grounds for Acquisition and Loss of Citizenship in the Americas and the Caribbean

Nationality Law in the Western Hemisphere: A Study on Grounds for Acquisition and Loss of Citizenship in the Americas and the Caribbean

Author: Olivier Willem Vonk
Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
ISBN: 9789004276406
Published In: February 2015
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Netherlands ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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In Nationality Law in the Western Hemisphere, Olivier Vonk provides the first comprehensive overview in English of the grounds for acquisition and loss of citizenship in the thirty-five independent countries in the Americas and the Caribbean. Employing a typology developed by the European Union Democracy Observatory on Citizenship, he convincingly shows that different nationality laws can be compared by using a systematic analytical grid.

The individual country chapters additionally pay due regard to issues such as dual citizenship and statelessness, and include thorough historical observations as well as extensive bibliographical references for each state. Nationality Law in the Western Hemisphere allows academics, practitioners, governments and international organizations to assess nationality legislation beyond a purely national context.

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Map of the Western Hemisphere

PART I Nationality Law in the Western Hemisphere: Setting the Scene

Chapter 1

1. General Introduction

2. Observations on Matters of Terminology and Definition in Nationality Law

3. On the Nationality Legislation of the Two Major Former Colonial Powers in the Western Hemisphere: Britain and Spain

Chapter 2 Non-Sovereign Caribbean Territories that Belong to Britain, France, the Netherlands, or the United States

Chapter 3 Key Observations from the Nationality Law-related Case Law of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Chapter 4 On Modes of Acquisition and Loss of Nationality: the European Union Democracy Observatory on Citizenship Typology

PART II Grounds for Acquisition and Loss of Citizenship in the Independent Nation-States of the Western Hemisphere