Dealing with Loopholes in National and EU Citizenship: Spanish Nationality in the Case of Western Sahara

This chapter explores the potentially fuzzy boundaries of the concept of European citizenship, and its deep interconnection with the nationality legislations of the European Union (EU) Member States. The complexity and plurality of these national regulations involves an extremely wide range of proce...

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Autores: Martín Pérez, Alberto, Moreno Fuentes, Francisco Javier
Tipo de recurso: capítulo de libro
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Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Palabra clave:Ciutadania
Nacionalitat
Sàhara Occidental
Citizenship
Nationality
Western Sahara
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spelling Dealing with Loopholes in National and EU Citizenship: Spanish Nationality in the Case of Western SaharaMartín Pérez, AlbertoMoreno Fuentes, Francisco JavierCiutadaniaNacionalitatSàhara OccidentalCitizenshipNationalityWestern SaharaThis chapter explores the potentially fuzzy boundaries of the concept of European citizenship, and its deep interconnection with the nationality legislations of the European Union (EU) Member States. The complexity and plurality of these national regulations involves an extremely wide range of procedures, mecha- nisms and conditions for obtaining derivatively the status of EU citizen. Embedded within this plurality, several inequalities between legislations (and some loopholes) also appear to exist, making EU citizenship a potentially incon- sistent concept, particularly at the outer limits of national belonging. In order to illustrate this issue, which affects the very notion of EU citizenship, we shall review the issue of the loose boundaries of Spanish nationality law, focusing spe- cifically on the status of its regulatory framework regarding Western Sahara. This former Spanish colony, whose political status over the last four decades, following the termination of Spanish control over the territory, has undergone an incom- plete and conflictive process of redefinition.Brill, Leiden202620262014info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPartinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion17 p.application/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/229643https://hdl.handle.net/2445/229643reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésVersió postprint del capítol del llibre: The Reconceptualization of European Union CitizenshipCapítol del llibre: Guild, E., Gortázar Rotaeche, C., Kostakopoulou, D. (eds.), The Reconceptualization of European Union Citizenship, Leiden: Brill. [ISBN: 9789004251526], pp. 149–166, https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004251526_009(c) Brill, Leiden, 2014info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:dnet:recercat____::377bc8c3d5922ad21f1e7e57460e421c2026-05-29T05:05:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Dealing with Loopholes in National and EU Citizenship: Spanish Nationality in the Case of Western Sahara
title Dealing with Loopholes in National and EU Citizenship: Spanish Nationality in the Case of Western Sahara
spellingShingle Dealing with Loopholes in National and EU Citizenship: Spanish Nationality in the Case of Western Sahara
Martín Pérez, Alberto
Ciutadania
Nacionalitat
Sàhara Occidental
Citizenship
Nationality
Western Sahara
title_short Dealing with Loopholes in National and EU Citizenship: Spanish Nationality in the Case of Western Sahara
title_full Dealing with Loopholes in National and EU Citizenship: Spanish Nationality in the Case of Western Sahara
title_fullStr Dealing with Loopholes in National and EU Citizenship: Spanish Nationality in the Case of Western Sahara
title_full_unstemmed Dealing with Loopholes in National and EU Citizenship: Spanish Nationality in the Case of Western Sahara
title_sort Dealing with Loopholes in National and EU Citizenship: Spanish Nationality in the Case of Western Sahara
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Martín Pérez, Alberto
Moreno Fuentes, Francisco Javier
author Martín Pérez, Alberto
author_facet Martín Pérez, Alberto
Moreno Fuentes, Francisco Javier
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author2 Moreno Fuentes, Francisco Javier
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciutadania
Nacionalitat
Sàhara Occidental
Citizenship
Nationality
Western Sahara
topic Ciutadania
Nacionalitat
Sàhara Occidental
Citizenship
Nationality
Western Sahara
description This chapter explores the potentially fuzzy boundaries of the concept of European citizenship, and its deep interconnection with the nationality legislations of the European Union (EU) Member States. The complexity and plurality of these national regulations involves an extremely wide range of procedures, mecha- nisms and conditions for obtaining derivatively the status of EU citizen. Embedded within this plurality, several inequalities between legislations (and some loopholes) also appear to exist, making EU citizenship a potentially incon- sistent concept, particularly at the outer limits of national belonging. In order to illustrate this issue, which affects the very notion of EU citizenship, we shall review the issue of the loose boundaries of Spanish nationality law, focusing spe- cifically on the status of its regulatory framework regarding Western Sahara. This former Spanish colony, whose political status over the last four decades, following the termination of Spanish control over the territory, has undergone an incom- plete and conflictive process of redefinition.
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