Denationalization in the Dominican Republic: Trapping Victims in the State’s Administrative Maze.
The Dominican Republic retroactively stripped thousands of Dominico-Haitians of their Dominican citizenship yet managed to defuse international opprobrium over time. After a direct assault on people’s citizenship status in 2013 provoked the human rights community’s ire, the DR employed administrativ...
| Publicado en: | Latin American Research Review Vol. 57; no. 3; pp. 590 - 608 |
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Cambridge University Press
Sep2022
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