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Article: Holes in the rights framework: racial discrimination, citizenship, and the rights of noncitizens.
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- Ethics & International Affairs
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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Dilcia Yean was born on April 15, 1996, in the Dominican Republic to a Dominican woman of Haitian descent. Although the Dominican constitution establishes the principle of jus soli (and thus assigns citizenship to those born on Dominican territory), Yean was denied Dominican citizenship, and was refused permission to register her birth or to obtain recognition of her le gal personality. (1) Government officials said they had orders not to register or issue birth certificates to children of Haitian descent. The official in charge of the Civil Registry explained that, as Yean had been born to Haitian parents who were in the country illegally, she had no right to Dominican ...