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Louise Reyntjens - 30th June 2020
On 25 June 2020, the Strasbourg Court delivered judgement in the case of Ghoumid and others v France. An important question in the case was whether the French administrative measure of citizenship deprivation constituted a punishment in the sense of Article 4, protocol 7 ECHR. The applicants argued that their deprivation of citizenship constituted a […]
Vandita Khanna - 13th May 2020
On 13 April 2020, the Supreme Court of India ordered that ‘foreigners’ who had been detained for at least two years in the state of Assam would be eligible for conditional release in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this post, I argue that behind the veneer of a positive outcome, the decision seems to […]
Sophia Salmore - 9th April 2020
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced last month that it had created a standalone denaturalization section to strip citizenship from naturalized immigrants, as part of the Trump administration’s broad pushback on immigration. The denaturalization section “underscores the department’s commitment to bring justice to terrorists, war criminals, sex offenders, and other fraudsters who illegally obtained […]
Dominic O'Sullivan - 18th February 2020
In 2019, the Minister of Immigration tried to deport two Aboriginal men from Australia. One was born in Papua New Guinea, and the other in New Zealand. Although long resident in Australia, neither had applied for citizenship. This, the Minister argued, made them eligible for deportation on character grounds after conviction for minor offences. The […]