{"id":1198,"date":"2013-09-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.hennhoneyball.com\/the-post-secession-nationality-regimes-in-sudan-and-south-sudan\/"},"modified":"2018-05-25T07:24:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T07:24:28","slug":"the-post-secession-nationality-regimes-in-sudan-and-south-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/the-post-secession-nationality-regimes-in-sudan-and-south-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Post-Secession Nationality Regimes in Sudan and South Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-canvas-width=\"35.597359882\">\n<div data-canvas-width=\"35.597359882\">By Mike Sanderson<\/div>\n<p>Following the secession of South Sudan fr<span class=\"hit\">om<\/span>\u00a0the Republic of Sudan o<span class=\"hit\">n<\/span>\u00a09 July 2011 both countries have passed new citizenship legislation with dramatic effects for the rights of individuals in both countries. I assess these new legislative regimes with particular reference to the public international standards relevant to loss of nationality and\u00a0<span class=\"hit\">denationalisation.<\/span>\u00a0The Sudanese Act, insofar as it provides for the automatic denationalisation of South Sudanese nationals only, is both discriminatory on its face and v<span class=\"hit\">iolates<\/span>\u00a0key due process standards. While the South Sudanese nationalisation provisions appear generous, by abandoning the well-established test of &#8216;habitual residence&#8217;, its regime is at once both overbroad and i<span class=\"hit\">nsufficiently<\/span>\u00a0comprehensive. It grants citizenship to a broad range of citizens with little or no connection to South Sudan w<span class=\"hit\">hile<\/span>\u00a0failing to guarantee citizenship for individuals born in South Sudan\u00a0<span class=\"hit\">to<\/span>\u00a0stateless, undocumented and f<span class=\"hit\">oreign<\/span>\u00a0parents. The two regimes combine to create a perverse synergy that results in the automatic denationalisation of a significant minority of the Sudanese population.<\/p>\n<p>Available on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lexisnexis.com\/uk\/legal\/results\/enhdocview.do?docLinkInd=true&amp;ersKey=23_T23859244520&amp;format=GNBFULL&amp;startDocNo=0&amp;resultsUrlKey=0_T23859244523&amp;backKey=20_T23859244524&amp;csi=372226&amp;docNo=1&amp;scrollToPosition=78\">Lexis-Nexis<\/a>\u00a0(paywall).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Mike Sanderson Following the secession of South Sudan from\u00a0the Republic of Sudan on\u00a09 July 2011 both countries have passed new citizenship legislation with dramatic effects for the rights of individuals in both countries. I assess these new legislative regimes with particular reference to the public international standards relevant to loss of nationality and\u00a0denationalisation.\u00a0The Sudanese [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-south-sudan","region-sudan","type-academic-articles","item-year-491","item-theme-new-states","item-theme-state-succession","item-theme-statelessness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3574,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions\/3574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}