Judicial denationalisation of Dominicans of Haitian descent

Abstract

A recent Constitutional Tribunal decision in the Dominican Republic, if implemented as drafted, will leave thousands of Dominicans stateless and send a lesson to other states that mass arbitrary denationalisations are acceptable as long as they are judicially mandated.

Keywords

• refugee
• IDP
• stateless
• internal displacement
• forced migration
• migration
• statelessness