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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

Dual / Multiple Citizenship

Chiara Graziani

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Encyclopedia entries
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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]
Article last updated:
November 2021

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 11 December 2024

Subject(s):
Right to renounce citizenship — Requirements for naturalization — Residency requirements — Dual nationality — Conditions for revoking citizenship

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani

1 Citizenship (often referred to as ‘status civitatis’ from Ancient Rome onwards) is commonly defined as a legal status that provides individuals with ‘membership’ to a state (citizenship; Kochenov ‘Citizenship’ 5) and is tightly linked with identity and sense of belonging that a person perceives vis-à-vis his/her territory. Being a ‘citizen’ means enjoying the rights and having to comply with the obligations arising from the domestic laws of a country. Each state has its own laws establishing the conditions under which a person can acquire, renounce, or even lose...
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