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Jus soli

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Jus soli, meaning "right of the soil", commonly referred to as birthright citizenship, is the right of anyone born in the territory of a state to nationality or citizenship. [1]

72 relations: American Quarterly, Argentine nationality law, Athens, Australian nationality law, Barbadian nationality law, Belfast, Birthright citizenship in the United States, Brazilian nationality law, British nationality law, Canadian nationality law, Chad, Chen v Home Secretary, Chilean nationality law, China, Citizenship, Citizenship of the European Union, Civil law (legal system), Cleisthenes, Common law, Constitutio Antoniniana, Constitution of the Dominican Republic, Continental Europe, Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, Director of Immigration v Chong Fung Yuen, English law, European migrant crisis, Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, France, French nationality law, German nationality law, Germany, Greek nationality law, Helots, History of citizenship, Hong Kong Basic Law, Indian nationality law, Iranian nationality law, Ireland, Irish nationality law, Jus sanguinis, Luxembourgish nationality law, Macau, Mainland China, Malaysian nationality law, Maltese nationality law, Mexican nationality law, Ministry of Labour (Barbados), Multiple citizenship, Namibian nationality law, Nation state, ..., Nationality, Nationality law, Nationality law of the People's Republic of China, New Zealand nationality law, Northern Ireland, OECD, Pakistani nationality law, Paraguayan nationality law, Peruvian nationality law, Right of abode in Hong Kong, Rights, Roman Empire, Roman law, South African nationality law, Statelessness, Transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong, Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, Unfree labour, United Kingdom, United States Constitution, United States v. Wong Kim Ark, Uruguayan nationality law. Expand index (22 more) »

American Quarterly

American Quarterly is an academic journal and the official publication of the American Studies Association.

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Argentine nationality law

Argentine nationality law has a dual system accepting Jus soli and Jus sanguinis.

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Athens

Athens (Αθήνα, Athína; Ἀθῆναι, Athênai) is the capital and largest city of Greece.

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Australian nationality law

Australian nationality law determines who is and who is not an Australian citizen.

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Barbadian nationality law

The Barbadian nationality law is governed by both the Barbados Citizenship Act, UNHCR and the Barbados Constitution.

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Belfast

Belfast (is the capital city of Northern Ireland, located on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast of Ireland.

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Birthright citizenship in the United States

Birthright citizenship in the United States is acquired by virtue of the circumstances of birth.

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Brazilian nationality law

Brazilian nationality law is based on both the principles of jus soli and of jus sanguinis.

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British nationality law

British nationality law is the law of the United Kingdom which concerns citizenship and other categories of British nationality.

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Canadian nationality law

Canadian nationality law is promulgated by the Citizenship Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-29) since 1977.

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Chad

Chad (تشاد; Tchad), officially the Republic of Chad ("Republic of the Chad"), is a landlocked country in Central Africa.

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Chen v Home Secretary

Chen v Home Secretary was a decision of the European Court of Justice which decided that a minor who is a national of a European Union member state has the right to reside in the European Union with his or her third-country national parents, provided the minor and parents have health insurance and will not become a burden on the public finances of the member state of residence.

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Chilean nationality law

Chilean nationality law is based on both principles of jus soli and jus sanguini.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Citizenship

Citizenship is the status of a person recognized under the custom or law as being a legal member of a sovereign state or belonging to a nation.

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Citizenship of the European Union

Citizenship of the European Union (EU) is afforded to qualifying citizens of European Union member states.

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Civil law (legal system)

Civil law, civilian law, or Roman law is a legal system originating in Europe, intellectualized within the framework of Roman law, the main feature of which is that its core principles are codified into a referable system which serves as the primary source of law.

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Cleisthenes

Cleisthenes (Κλεισθένης, Kleisthénēs; also Clisthenes or Kleisthenes) was an ancient Athenian lawgiver credited with reforming the constitution of ancient Athens and setting it on a democratic footing in 508/7 BC.

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Common law

Common law (also known as judicial precedent or judge-made law, or case law) is that body of law derived from judicial decisions of courts and similar tribunals.

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Constitutio Antoniniana

The Constitutio Antoniniana (Latin for: "Constitution of Antoninus") (also called the Edict of Caracalla or the Antonine Constitution) was an edict issued in 212, by the Roman Emperor Caracalla declaring that all free men in the Roman Empire were to be given theoretical Roman citizenship and that all free women in the Empire were to be given the same rights as Roman women.

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Constitution of the Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic has gone through 39 constitutions, more than any other country, since its independence in 1844.

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Continental Europe

Continental or mainland Europe is the continuous continent of Europe excluding its surrounding islands.

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Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness

The Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness is a 1961 United Nations multilateral treaty whereby sovereign states agree to reduce the incidence of statelessness.

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Director of Immigration v Chong Fung Yuen

Director of Immigration v. Chong Fung Yuen was a 2001 case in Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal.

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English law

English law is the common law legal system of England and Wales, comprising mainly criminal law and civil law, each branch having its own courts and procedures.

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European migrant crisis

The European migrant crisis, or the European refugee crisis, is a term given to a period beginning in 2015 when rising numbers of people arrived in the European Union (EU), travelling across the Mediterranean Sea or overland through Southeast Europe.

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Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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French nationality law

French nationality law is historically based on the principles of jus soli (Latin for "right of soil"), according to Ernest Renan's definition, in opposition to the German definition of nationality, jus sanguinis (Latin for "right of blood"), formalized by Johann Gottlieb Fichte.

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German nationality law

German nationality law is the law governing the acquisition, transmission and loss of German citizenship.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Greek nationality law

Nationality law of Greece is based on the principle of jus sanguinis.

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Helots

The helots (εἵλωτες, heílotes) were a subjugated population group that formed the main population of Laconia and Messenia, the territory controlled by Sparta.

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History of citizenship

History of citizenship describes the changing relation between an individual and the state, commonly known as citizenship.

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Hong Kong Basic Law

The Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China is the constitutional document of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

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Indian nationality law

The conferment of a person, as a citizen of India, is governed by Articles 5 to 11 (Part II) of the Constitution of India.

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Iranian nationality law

Iranian nationality law contains principles of both jus sanguinis and jus soli.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic.

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Irish nationality law

Irish nationality law is contained in the provisions of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Acts 1956 to 2004 and in the relevant provisions of the Irish Constitution.

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Jus sanguinis

Jus sanguinis (right of blood) is a principle of nationality law by which citizenship is not determined by place of birth but by having one or both parents who are citizens of the state.

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Luxembourgish nationality law

Luxembourgish nationality law is ruled by the Constitution of Luxembourg.

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Macau

Macau, officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory on the western side of the Pearl River estuary in East Asia.

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Mainland China

Mainland China, also known as the Chinese mainland, is the geopolitical as well as geographical area under the direct jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Malaysian nationality law

Malaysian nationality law is the law of Malaysia that deals with citizenship and other forms of nationality.

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Maltese nationality law

Maltese nationality law is based primarily on the principles of Jus sanguinis, although prior to 1 August 1989 the principle of Jus soli was the basis of the law.

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Mexican nationality law

Nationality in Mexico is defined by multiple laws, including the 30th article of the Constitution of Mexico and other laws.

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Ministry of Labour (Barbados)

The Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Human Resource Development, commonly referred to as the Ministry of Labour, is a government ministry responsible for policy formulation, industrial relations, the regulation and delivery of vocational and technical training, the National Insurance Scheme and the other overall administration and coordination of all operations falling under the Minister of Labour’s portfolio.

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Multiple citizenship

Multiple citizenship, dual citizenship, multiple nationality or dual nationality, is a person's citizenship status, in which a person is concurrently regarded as a citizen of more than one state under the laws of those states.

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Namibian nationality law

Namibian nationality law regulates who is or may become a citizen of Namibia.

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Nation state

A nation state (or nation-state), in the most specific sense, is a country where a distinct cultural or ethnic group (a "nation" or "people") inhabits a territory and have formed a state (often a sovereign state) that they predominantly govern.

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Nationality

Nationality is a legal relationship between an individual person and a state.

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Nationality law

Nationality law (or citizenship law) is the law in each country and in each jurisdiction within each country which defines the rights and obligations of citizenship within the jurisdiction and the manner in which citizenship is acquired as well as how citizenship may be lost.

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Nationality law of the People's Republic of China

The Nationality Law of the People's Republic of China regulates nationality of the People's Republic of China.

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New Zealand nationality law

New Zealand nationality law determines who is and who is not a New Zealand citizen.

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Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Ulster-Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland, variously described as a country, province or region.

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OECD

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, OCDE) is an intergovernmental economic organisation with 35 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade.

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Pakistani nationality law

The Pakistani nationality law governs citizenship of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

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Paraguayan nationality law

Paraguayan nationality law is based on the principle of Jus soli.

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Peruvian nationality law

According to the Peruvian Constitution and nationality legislation passed in 1996 as well as an executive order declared in 1997, Peruvian nationality can be passed by birth via jus soli or by registration if born overseas and duly registered at a Peruvian embassy or consulate before the child reaches 18 years of age.

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Right of abode in Hong Kong

The right of abode in Hong Kong is the right to legally reside in Hong Kong without any limit or condition of stay being imposed by the Hong Kong Immigration Department.

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Rights

Rights are legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom or entitlement; that is, rights are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people, according to some legal system, social convention, or ethical theory.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire (Imperium Rōmānum,; Koine and Medieval Greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, tr.) was the post-Roman Republic period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterized by government headed by emperors and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, Africa and Asia.

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Roman law

Roman law is the legal system of ancient Rome, including the legal developments spanning over a thousand years of jurisprudence, from the Twelve Tables (c. 449 BC), to the Corpus Juris Civilis (AD 529) ordered by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I. Roman law forms the basic framework for civil law, the most widely used legal system today, and the terms are sometimes used synonymously.

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South African nationality law

South Africa rewrote its nationality law since the end of Apartheid in 1994 and the establishment of majority rule in the country under the African National Congress.

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Statelessness

In International law a stateless person is someone who is "not considered as a national by any state under the operation of its law".

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Transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong

The transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to China, referred to as "the Handover" internationally or "the Return" in Mainland China, took place on 1 July 1997.

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Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland

The Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Act 2004 (previously bill no. 15 of 2004) amended the Constitution of Ireland to provide that children born on the island of Ireland to parents who were both foreign nationals would no longer have a constitutional right to Irish citizenship.

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Unfree labour

Unfree labour is a generic or collective term for those work relations, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, violence (including death), compulsion, or other forms of extreme hardship to themselves or members of their families.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United States Constitution

The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States.

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United States v. Wong Kim Ark

United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898),.

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Uruguayan nationality law

Uruguayan nationality law is mostly based on the principle of Jus soli.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli

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