The 150-year debate to maintain, amend, or repeal the US Constitution’s 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause.
By Ada Adoley Allotey, PhD
A few weeks ago, the US Supreme Court overturned President Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship, which he signed last year after taking office for a second term. President Trump has indicated that he would “immediately” ask the US Supreme Court to rehear this case. Since taking office, President Trump has consistently stated that he intends to issue an executive order to end birthright citizenship in the US. A 150-year-old debate has been ignited by his desire to end the country’s unrestricted offer of jus soli citizenship. The debate is whether the Citizenship Clause enshrined in the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution should be amended, repealed, or maintained. Therefore, the arguments put forth by the two opposing sides in this debate are examined in this presentation.
Organizer
Dr. Ada Adoley Allotey holds a PhD in Migration Studies from the Centre for Migration Studies, University of Ghana. Her doctoral thesis was on Ghanaian women’s participation in birth tourism to the United States of America. She also holds a master’s degree in Tourism Destination Management from Breda University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands, and a BSc. in Tourism from the University of Cape Coast. She has been an Assistant Programme Officer at the Human Settlement Unit of the Environmental Protection Agency since November 2020. From 2011 until 2019, She was also a tourism management lecturer at Zenith University College. Rural-urban migration, urban sociology, destination image and management, transnational migration, and tourism are among Ada’s research interests. She is the President of the African Mobility Scholars Association (AMSA), a professional regional body of Migration and Mobility Scholars and Researchers in Africa.