France narrows birthright citizenship for Mayotte

Although Mayotte — a former colony and overseas department of France — is officially part of the French Republic, new legislation is deepening the divide between citizenship rights in the island territory versus the mainland. On Thursday, French lawmakers adopted a law that will further tighten the rules on birthright citizenship in Mayotte — located between Mozambique on Africa's mainland and the island of Madagascar — building upon an initial 2018 reform. Now, a person can only get French nationality if both parents have resided legally in France for one year; before, it was one parent for three months. Experts are sounding alarm bells over the text’s legal integrity and social consequences as right-wing politicians' push to bring the bill to the mainland.
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