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Mayotte unrest: French island residents round up 'foreigners'

Mayotte unrest: French island residents round up 'foreigners'

Old Mar 18th 2018, 11:26 am
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Mayotte unrest: French island residents round up 'foreigners'

About 70% of the 10,000 babies born every year in the island's only maternity hospital in the main town of Mamoudzou are born to illegal migrants, mainly from the Comoran islands, according to official statistics.

It is said to be one of France's busiest - to the point that the government is considering declaring the hospital as non-French territory so that children born there do not automatically qualify for French citizenship.

"The truth is we're suffocating in Mayotte. We can't access our hospitals anymore. We have to go to Reunion Island or elsewhere for treatment," Marianne, a protester, told the AFP news agency.

"We can't give birth in Mayotte anymore because there are too many deliveries. Our safety is at stake."


Mayotte unrest: French island residents round up 'foreigners' - BBC News

I never knew that France still operates a Jus soli system of citizenship.
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Old Mar 18th 2018, 12:57 pm
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Mayotte unrest: French island residents round up 'foreigners'

About 70% of the 10,000 babies born every year in the island's only maternity hospital in the main town of Mamoudzou are born to illegal migrants, mainly from the Comoran islands, according to official statistics.

It is said to be one of France's busiest - to the point that the government is considering declaring the hospital as non-French territory so that children born there do not automatically qualify for French citizenship.

"The truth is we're suffocating in Mayotte. We can't access our hospitals anymore. We have to go to Reunion Island or elsewhere for treatment," Marianne, a protester, told the AFP news agency.

"We can't give birth in Mayotte anymore because there are too many deliveries. Our safety is at stake."


Mayotte unrest: French island residents round up 'foreigners' - BBC News

I never knew that France still operates a Jus soli system of citizenship.
Interesting, but, although it's on the French News, your average French person feels less concerned than if there were troubles in Martinique, Guadeloupe, or la Réunion... Mayotte is one of the overseas DOMs, with all the advantages of being a French Département, but, like Guyane, seems to have fewer ties with the Metropolitan French.
According to
https://www.service-public.fr/partic...vosdroits/F295
children born of foreign parents on French territory can apply for French citizenship in their teens, either via their parents or directly depending on their age, provided they fulfill the conditions. They aren't automatically French the minute they're born on French soil....
This may in fact be of interest to expat parents whose children were born in France and live here permanently....
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