Resumen de Citizenship in Africa:: The Law of Belonging

Angela M Banks

• The United Nations estimates that there are 272 million migrants around the world.1 These individuals will become long-term residents, have families, and create communities. Yet the citizenship laws in their countries of residence may deny them and their children access to citizenship or take away previously granted citizenship. In light of such developments, the right to nationality has become an important right to examine. There is a growing literature within international human rights law about the right to nationality, but it is a topic that has received sparse attention from citizenship and nationality scholars. Bronwen Manby’s Citizenship in Africa: The Law of...