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18 Immigr. & Nat'lity L. Rev. 491 (1997)
Dual Nationality and the Meaning of Citizenship

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Volume 46                     FALL 1997                     Number 4

ARTICLES
DUAL NATIONALITY AND THE MEANING OF
CITIZENSHIP
Peter J. Spiro*
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION   .......................................                 1412
I.        DUAL NATIONALITY IN A HOSTILE WORLD ............. 1417
A. Don 't Want to Let You Go: Dual Nationality in an Era
of Perpetual Allegiances  ..................... 1419
1.   The Long Arm of Perpetual Allegiance ........ 1420
2.   Dual Nationality and Diplomatic Protection ..... 1424
B.   You Can't Hang On: The Turn to Exclusivity ....... 1430
1.   The New Problems of Dual Nationality ........ 1432
2.   Naturalization as a Ground for Expatriation .... 1434
3.   Birthright Dual Nationals and the Duty of
Election  .............................            1435
C.   Dual Nationality and Cold War Intensities ......... 1443
1.   Legislative Intolerance ................... 1443
* Associate Professor, Hofstra University Law School. An earlier version of this Article was present-
ed at an Immigration Law Professors Workshop at the University of Colorado Law School. Thanks to Alex
Aleinikoff, Linda Bosniak, Robin Charlow, Eric Freedman, Stephen Legomsky, Hiroshi Motomura, Mark
Movsesian, Gerald Neuman, Peter Schuck, and Herbert Spiro for detailed comments; to Connie Lenz of the
Hofstra Law Library for valuable assistance in locating source materials; and to Hofstra University for a
generous summer research grant.

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