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Re:Amnesty International India Halts Its Work in India Due t... by oytis on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @10:11AM (#24628019)
Birthright citizenship is pretty unique to America though. Nowhere in Europe you would find such a thing, although most people won't count Germany, France, Netherlands, Sweden etc. as human right violators.
Re:Amnesty International India Halts Its Work in India Due t... by baud147258 on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @11:51AM (#24629308)
Maybe I missed something or forgot how citizenship works here in France (since I learned how it is acquired as a student), but birthright citizenship seems pretty similar to what we have here
Re:Amnesty International India Halts Its Work in India Due t... by oytis on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @12:23PM (#24629755)
Just checked the wiki, looks like France defines something called double jus soli, which means a person who was born in France to a parent who themselves is born in France (even though they might not be a French citizen) gets the citizenship.

That's a bit closer to birthright citizenship that what we have in Germany, but nowhere as liberal as USA laws, which give citizenship to anyone born in the USA even if their parents entered the country one day before the birth and left next day after the birth. That is something that doesn't exist anywhere in Europe to my knowledge.

Re:Amnesty International India Halts Its Work in India Due t... by baud147258 on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @02:42PM (#24631404)
It seems I didn't look closely enough at the details, thanks for the clarification
Re:Amnesty International India Halts Its Work in India Due t... by eli_gottlieb on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @12:19PM (#24629711)
France has a mixture of jus soli and jus sanguinis, like most countries. Pure jus soli, as in the American case, is in fact quite rare.
Re:Amnesty International India Halts Its Work in India Due t... by unishark on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @11:04AM (#24628682)
Also Canada, Mexico, and almost all of South America. Only a few other countries elsewhere, none of them developed.