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Regimes of National Belonging in Contemporary Venezuela and Dominican Republic

Abstract: This paper examines two explicitly exclusive/inclusive national belonging regimes, by discussing two case studies of current negotiations on alien status and nationality in Dominican Republic and Venezuela. In the latter, from the governmental initiative in 2004 for “alien people regularization and naturalization”, Venezuelan citizenship was bestowed on undocumented immigrants, some of them as a […]

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