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jus sanguinis

jus sanguinis

1 9.9
A country gives citizenship because a child's parents are citizens, not because of where the child is born
  • noun
  • /dʒʌs sæŋˈɡwɪnɪs/
  • Formal
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  • The warning was ironic, for the Kuomintang had been built with overseas Chinese support and funding, and had pursued an aggressive overseas Chinese policy based on the principle of jus sanguinis—that persons of Chinese blood, regardless of their country of birth, are citizens of China.
  • the principle of jus sanguinis

Examples

  • This is similar to the ancient European principle of jus sanguinis (right of the blood) and parallels the view of the ruling Christian Democrats in Germany that Germans are a community of destiny and ancestry.

    Academic text (1997)

  • The law says "natural born" is generally interpreted as either jus soli ("born of the soil") or jus sanguinis ("born of the blood").

    Blog text (18)

  • Both follow the principle of jus sanguinis, the blood principle, in granting nationality.

    Academic text (2004)

  • To this day, its nationality law, along with that of Germany's, bases its principle on jus sanguinis, that of blood.

    Academic text (2003)

  • The second principle is "jus sanguinis" (right of blood), which implies one or both parents are citizens of the US regardless of where the person was born.

    Blog text (5)

  • Many countries use the principle of jus sanguinis to determine a child's nationality based on the parents' citizenship.

  • According to jus sanguinis, a person can inherit citizenship from their parents regardless of where they are born.

  • In Italy, the jus sanguinis principle allows individuals of Italian descent to claim citizenship, even if they live abroad.

Antonyms

jus soli
  • Formal
9.9

A rule that gives citizenship to people born in a country

Surface Forms

jus sanguinis singular
jus sanguina singular

Morphology

jus + sanguinis

The phrase is literally Latin for 'right of blood' (jus = legal right, sanguinis = of blood), so a learner who knows those constituents can reconstruct the basic idea that the principle is blood-based. However, the term is a specialized legal/political label in Latin form, so mapping that literal 'right of blood' to the specific concept 'nationality determined by parentage rather than birthplace' requires some background and is not fully predictable for an average B1 learner.

Etymology

Jus sanguinis comes from Latin words jus meaning 'right' and sanguinis meaning 'blood'. The picture is that a person's nationality comes through their parents' blood, not from where they were born, so it means 'citizenship from your parents'.