Former prefect and general inspector of administration,
Michel Aubouin
served from 2009 to 2013 as director of the Ministry of the Interior in charge of the integration of foreigners and naturalizations.
He has notably published “
40
years in the cities
” (Presses de la Cité, 2019) and “
The
Challenge of being French
” (Presses de la Cité, 2023).
To discover
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Readers of the Civil Code, which has governed nationality law since 1804, have been surprised for several days by a ludicrous debate where everyone talks about a right which, as such, is not there.
France has never established a “droit du sol”, that is to say a right which would make every child born in France a Frenchman.
Birth on French soil confers only two possibilities, taken from articles L. 19-3 and L. 21-7 of the code.
The first establishes a right to be French in the second generation (for a child born in France to a parent himself born in France).
The second grants nationality to adults who, born in France, would have…
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