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“This is deeply, deeply disturbing because citizenship should be based on people’s ties to a society and a country,” Julia Harrington-Reddy [said]…“Genetics is not valid grounds for citizenship….”
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Also living in Kuwait, though, is a significant Bidoon minority…The Kuwaiti government considers the Bidoon…illegal residents…[and] has gone as far as flirting with the idea of moving its entire stateless Bidoon community to…a remote African island, as a way to rid itself of the generational problem.
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“They might be using the idea of genetic testing as some sort of smokescreen, and actually they’re just going to test people who are from Bidoon families and take their citizenship away,” added Harrington-Reddy.
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