deport foreigners who commit serious crimes once they have served their jail sentence.
He said that this was a case where there were differing understandings of citizenship. Where in the United States and France you have the "law of the soil", i.e. if you are born here you are a citizen, Switzerland and many other European countries have the "law of the blood" you are a citizen only if born of a citizen.
Thus, you can have the situation where a family has lived for 2-3 generations but haven't earned citizenship.
On the more specific issue of whether the "collective punishment" aspect was something adjudicatable under international law, he said that in the absence of another violation of international human rights law, this is entirely "legal."
On a side note, this particular professor was born stateless the child of Austrian Jewish parents in 1945 in Switzerland. Although he's now an American, his first citizenship was Swiss, and he has quite a favorable opinion of Switzerland's record on human rights.
For me, I'm disturbed, because this is the country that my great grandfather came from in 1886. Switzerland has been a democracy for over 700 years, the longest continous democracy in the world. Yet, while the Swiss have their flaws, there is much of which to be proud. And much to believe that though they will falter, they will not fall to the specter of history that confronts their neighbor to the north. And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg
Article 15. (1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.
By the way, the article you list above is precisely the reason that migrants destroy their identity papers before they take off for the Canaries.
I hate to be flippant (translation I enjoy being flippant), but if European countries were interested in limiting migration, they would pay for censuses in African countries. And offer development aid in exchange for creating a Europol database that contained this information.
That way you could end the very serious problem with abuse of this article of international law, which in the end undermine the protection it creates for actual cases of denaturalization of citizens by regimes that violate human rights. And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg
But you cannot deport people to a country where they're not a national even if it's their "country of origin". The other country is not required to take them if they're not nationals. And we just had a discussion of how the Netherlands is requiring those applying for naturalisation to give up their previous nationality in order to "improve" integration. Oye, vatos, dees English sink todos mi ships, chinga sus madres, so escuche: el fleet es ahora refloated, OK? — The War Nerd
If you are sentenced the period is prolonged. If you have debts the period may be prolonged.
I guess the immigrants are not only criminal but also so lazy that they can not be bothered to commit the crimes they came here to commit until suddenly 4 or 5 years has passed and a swedish citizenship comes flying (after they filled in the forms, payed the fees, proved their identity)?
So how long would you want people to wait?
And having to pass exams in Swedish, language culture and history, making sure their loyalty has been transfered to their new country and so on.
The United States is, for once, a good example.
(even though they put more focus on language and loyalty and less on culture and history, maybe because they haven't got very much of those things) Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
making sure their loyalty has been transfered to their new country
(I'm not sure I've ever felt loyalty to any country.) You have a normal feeling for a moment, then it passes. --More--
What is loyalty to a country anyway?
