The Toleration of Dual Citizenship: A Global Trend and its Limits
Journal: Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften eBooks
Year: 2021

This chapter summarises the causes of the strong global trend towards the toleration of dual citizenship but then focuses on its possible limits and reasons for resistance by some states. I consider specifically why the two largest states in terms of population – China and India – adhere to a policy of strict non-toleration of multiple citizenship out of security concerns and adversarial ideologies of national sovereignty. I also examine the Eastern European context where policies of regional he