Abstract
The international relevance of citizenship was highly motivated by the attempt to regulate and prevent conflicts of citizenship laws—both negative and positive.
Although there was an immense evolution resulting from the pressure of mass cross-border migration movements, also motivated by significant changes in the very structure of international law, that makes it impossible to assess current international citizenship law from the viewpoint of the early twentieth century, the same basic principles still persist.
International law has interacted with national citizenship law since early times, but this interaction was also not limited to reducing statelessness.
It existed in different times and areas of international citizenship law. It evolved in many ways and via various international instruments.
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Matias, G. (2016). International Law of Citizenship. In: Citizenship as a Human Right. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59384-9_3
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