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In bid to curb immigration, France to scrap birthright citizenship in Indian Ocean island of Mayotte

www.reuters.com /world/europe/bid-curb-immigration-france-scrap-birthright-citizenship-mayotte-2024-02-11/

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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