{"id":13525,"date":"2026-01-22T11:41:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/end-to-birthright-citizenship-in-frances-mayotte-causes-dismay-in-comoros\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T11:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:41:15","slug":"end-to-birthright-citizenship-in-frances-mayotte-causes-dismay-in-comoros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/end-to-birthright-citizenship-in-frances-mayotte-causes-dismay-in-comoros\/","title":{"rendered":"End to birthright citizenship in France&#039;s Mayotte causes dismay in Comoros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.france24.com\/media\/display\/05e47ce6-d00b-11ee-999e-005056a97e36\/w:1024\/p:16x9\/AFP-TV_20240219_POL_COM_PoliticsGovernment_34JM7NK_en.mp4.00_00_14_07.Still001.jpg\" \/><br \/>Every year, thousands of people attempt the perilous 70km sea crossing from Comoros to the French overseas department of Mayotte in search of a better life there. But now, the French government has announced plans to take a radical step to deter more migrants from coming: denying citizenship to children born on Mayotte to foreign parents. For many in Comoros, itself a former French colony, the move has come as a shock, though not all are convinced it will stop people from attempting to leave.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/video\/20240220-end-to-birthright-citizenship-in-french-overseas-department-mayotte-causes-dismay-in-comoros\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, thousands of people attempt the perilous 70km sea crossing from Comoros to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1139,1204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comoros","category-1204"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}