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.
I’m confused because I thought the whole developed world (with the exception of the US and Canada) scrapped birthright citizenship decades ago.
What about mainland France? Does this rule cause Mayotte to deviate from mainland France, or align with it?