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In bid to curb immigration, France to scrap birthright citizenship in Indian Ocean island of Mayotte (www.reuters.com)

submitted 8 months ago by 0x815@feddit.de to c/europe@feddit.de

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Children of immigrants born in Mayotte, the French overseas territory situated between Madagascar and the African mainland, will no longer automatically become French citizens, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said late on Sunday.

"It will no longer be possible to become French if one is not the child of French parents", Darmanin told journalists upon his arrival on the island, announcing the scrapping of birthright citizenship there - a first in recent French history.

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[–] taladar@feddit.de 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Sounds like exactly the kind of situation that would incentivize people who have the right to immigrate to France to want to move to France though?

[–] n0xew@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Mayotte's is part of overseas France, so I guess you are talking about mainland France?

So yes it may be the case for some of the island inhabitants, who as French citizens can travel to mainland France. Surely and understandbly some do, but reading the press this isn't really part of the debate. At the same time, these citizens are also the ones installing the roadblocks and demanding these changes. Mayotte is also the French department where Le Pen's right-wing party got the highest score (42.68%!) during the presidential 1st turn, so that's not entirely surprising.

My point being, putting it under the scope of "this is mainland France government who wants to discourage immigration to mainland France" is wrong. A more accurate summary could be "this is mainland France governement giving in to demands of Mayotte inhabitants to discourage immigration to Mayotte".

[–] taladar@feddit.de 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ah, now that makes sense, I think the problem was this part of the post

Children of immigrants born in Mayotte

which I read as

Children of (immigrants born in Mayotte)

while they probably meant

Children (of immigrants) born in Mayotte

[–] n0xew@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

That's indeed a pretty confusing wording!