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The Foreigners Act, 1946: Its Preamble and the Constitution
Document: The Foreigners Act, 1946 (31 of 1946), dated 23rd November, 1946, as amended. Download the Act (PDF) Status: This Act has been repealed by the Immigration and Foreigners Act, 2025, which came into force on 1 September 2025. It…
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Gender, Documents and the Burden of Belonging
There is a particular cruelty in a law that asks a woman to prove where she came from, using papers that were never written with her in mind. Citizenship, in the form it takes before a tribunal, is rarely a…
