CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Zrubec, Martin |
|---|---|
| Title | External citizenship policies and trans-border minorities: Case of Hungary and Slovakia |
| Summary | The thesis analyzes the recent citizenship controversy that took place between Hungary and Slovakia, as a suitable example pointing at theoretical and practical problems related to the adoption of legal rules offering a preferential access to citizenship to minorities living across the border. After summarizing the main trends in the dual and external citizenship policies and the academic debates that accompany them, author focuses on the political and legal reaction of Slovakia on the Hungarian policy of non-resident citizenship. Although strongly fuelled by the prospect of the upcoming elections, the reaction shows the large interdependence of nationality laws, when combination of certain citizenship rules may create a group of de facto stateless people. To prevent the similar situations to occur in the future and to improve the protection of minorities, author argues in favor of (a) the habitual residence as an obstacle to the citizenship deprivation, if the citizenship is lost by the voluntary acquisition of a foreign citizenship, (b) the standardized procedure of a consultation with the affected countries, if the citizenship rules with extraterritorial effects are about to be adopted by the EU country. |
| Supervisor | Pogonyi Szabolcs |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/zrubec_martin.pdf |
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