When the exception becomes the rule: The Spanish citizenship regime
The Spanish citizenship regime is considered to be one of the most restrictive in Eu-rope. In this paper, we argue that our understanding of Spanish legislation with re-spect to citizenship and its functioning requires a more nuanced approach. To this end, we focus on the exceptional rules that elud...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2013 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositorio: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/258339 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/258339 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Citizenship regimes Naturalization Spain Central and South America |
| Sumario: | The Spanish citizenship regime is considered to be one of the most restrictive in Eu-rope. In this paper, we argue that our understanding of Spanish legislation with re-spect to citizenship and its functioning requires a more nuanced approach. To this end, we focus on the exceptional rules that elude the usual naturalization require-ments and allow fast-track naturalization for privileged nationals. Our primary goal is not simply to reconceptualise the Spanish citizenship regime but also to show how heritage-based rules, combined with intense migration flows, haveprompted selection mechanisms that contradict the de-ethnicisation process allegedly underway in liberal states |
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