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Deception and denaturalisation: seek and you shall find - Free Movement

In this blog post I am going to take a look at the second main way that the British state strips some citizens of their citizenship status. In a previous blog post I looked at behaviour-based denaturalisation. Here I’m looking at fraud-based denaturalisation. In contrast to the considerable literature addressing behaviour-based denaturalisation, fraud-based denaturalisation has attracted little analysis. Some interesting work by Émilien Fargues forms an exception to the rule. There are two types of fraud-based denaturalisation in the United Kingdom. The statutory power to deprive a British citizen of their status on the basis of fraud was introduced in 1914. It is unknown how frequently this statutory power was...

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Exiled: the disturbing story of a citizen made unBritish | Kamila Shamsie

How can a government exile its citizens without a trial? Why can people born in Britain be forced to leave? Kamila Shamsie explores how citizenship became a privilege, not a right

“... but I want to consider the underlying question in all of this: what is the relationship between principles and the law? When the choice comes between giving up your principles or giving up on a proposed new law, the answer should always be that if the law undermines the values by which a nation wants to be known, then the law is unfit for purpose. One of the great sleight of hand manoeuvres by many democratic governments since the start of the “war on terror” has been to convince its citizens that we need to set aside our principles in the name of security. I can tell you from lived experience that this is the argument of dictatorships.”

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