Children of immigrants born in Mayotte, the French overseas territory situated between Madagascar and the African mainland, will no longer automatically become French citizens, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said late on Sunday.

“It will no longer be possible to become French if one is not the child of French parents”, Darmanin told journalists upon his arrival on the island, announcing the scrapping of birthright citizenship there - a first in recent French history.

  • @[email protected]
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    119 months ago

    Ah, now that makes sense, I think the problem was this part of the post

    Children of immigrants born in Mayotte

    which I read as

    Children of (immigrants born in Mayotte)

    while they probably meant

    Children (of immigrants) born in Mayotte

    • n0xew
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      49 months ago

      That’s indeed a pretty confusing wording!