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23
September
2013

A nationality ruling threatens Dominicans of Haitian descent with exclusion

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📅 23 September 2013 📍 Dominican Republic

The Constitutional Tribunal's ruling TC/0168/13 retroactively restricted access to Dominican nationality for descendants of certain migrants. It disproportionately affected people of Haitian descent, leaving many in legal uncertainty. Human-rights advocates challenged the decision as arbitrary deprivation of nationality, exposing citizenship administration as a mechanism of racialized exclusion.

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Juliana Deguis Pierre

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Dominican Constitutional Tribunal

Human Rights Watch