Statelessness & Denationalization
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Dreams deferred: The struggle of Dominicans of Haitian descent to get their nationality back
Tags Share On September 23, 2013, the Constitutional Tribunal of the Dominican Republic issued Judgment 168-13, ruling that it did not recognize the right to Dominican citizenship of hundreds of thousands of its citizens because they were the children of nonresident foreigners. The decision applied retroactively to generations of people who were born in the…
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Briefing Paper: Denationalized Dominicans and Haitian Migrants at Risk
Tags Share Upon expiration of the National Regularization Plan for undocumented migrants and the end of the Dominican Republic’s official moratorium on deportations on June 17, 2015, tens of thousands of denationalized Dominicans and hundreds of thousands of migrants will be left unprotected from the discriminatory migration policies of the Dominican Republic. Individuals arbitrarily deprived…
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Protecting Dominicans of Haitian descent in the Dominican
When a new law rendered all Dominican people born to undocumented immigrants stateless, RFK Human Rights took action.
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Dominicans of Haitian descent in Dominican Face Statelessness
Juliana Deguis Pierre’s simple attempt to get ID card could leave hundreds of thousands without a country.
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