{"id":16145,"date":"2018-02-22T08:29:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T08:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=16145"},"modified":"2018-02-23T08:42:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T08:42:35","slug":"lessons-from-tanzanias-historic-bid-to-turn-refugees-to-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/lessons-from-tanzanias-historic-bid-to-turn-refugees-to-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from Tanzania\u2019s Historic Bid to Turn Refugees to Citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tanzania was lauded for offering citizenship to 200,000 Burundians, the largest-ever mass naturalization of refugees. But a political stalemate emerged between humanitarians and the government, leaving refugees stuck in the middle, explains researcher Amelia\u00a0Kuch.<\/p>\n<p>During Europe\u2019s so-called migrant crisis of 2015, the Tanzanian government gave over 200,000 Burundian refugees a choice between repatriation \u2013 returning to Burundi \u2013 and naturalization \u2013 obtaining Tanzanian\u00a0citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>Given the choice, 79 percent of the refugees \u2013 171,600 people \u2013 opted for Tanzanian citizenship. It is understood to be the first time in history any state has naturalized such a large group of refugees under the protection of the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) in a single move.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsdeeply.com\/refugees\/community\/2018\/02\/22\/lessons-from-tanzanias-historic-bid-to-turn-refugees-to-citizens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.newsdeeply.com\/refugees\/community\/2018\/02\/22\/lessons-from-tanzanias-historic-bid-to-turn-refugees-to-citizens<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tanzania was lauded for offering citizenship to 200,000 Burundians, the largest-ever mass naturalization of refugees. But a political stalemate emerged between humanitarians and the government, leaving refugees stuck in the middle, explains researcher Amelia\u00a0Kuch. During Europe\u2019s so-called migrant crisis of 2015, the Tanzanian government gave over 200,000 Burundian refugees a choice between repatriation \u2013 returning [&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":[499,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","category-uncategorized","region-tanzanie","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-642","item-theme-nationalite-et-des-refugies","item-theme-naturalisation-et-le-mariage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16146,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16145\/revisions\/16146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}