The fraught drama of irregular migration from Africa to Europe is playing out in a corner of the Indian Ocean far from mainland Europe. Tensions are rising between Comoros and the island of Mayotte – ...

Chile likewise liberalized its jus soli requirements to support the arrival of hundreds of thousands of Haitian refugees, allowing many of their children to become Chilean citizens.

In Mayotte, the acquisition of French nationality through jus soli was already constrained prior to the recent legislative reform. In general, to access nationality proof of five years’ residence in ...

It's a right based on soil — jus soli — rather than blood, jus sanguinis. The U.S. Supreme Court began hearing arguments Thursday over the issue after a January Trump executive order called to ...