Nationality Law in the Western Hemisphere: A Study on Grounds for Acquisition and Loss of Citizenship in the Americas and the Caribbean -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Map of the Western Hemisphere -- PART 1: Nationality Law in the Western Hemisphere: Setting the Scene -- 1 Introduction to Part 1 -- 1.1 General Introduction -- 1.2 Observations on Matters of Terminology and Definition in Nationality Law -- 1.3 On the Nationality Legislation of the Two Major Former Colonial Powers in the Western Hemisphere: Britain and Spain -- 2 Non-Sovereign Caribbean Territories that Belong to Britain, France, the Netherlands, or the United States -- 3 Key Observations from the Nationality Law-related Case Law of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights -- 4 On Modes of Acquisition and Loss of Nationality The European Union Democracy Observatory on Citizenship Typology -- PART 2: Grounds for Acquisition and Loss of Citizenship in the Independent Nation-States of the Western Hemisphere -- 5 Introduction to the Country Analyses -- Antigua and Barbuda (A&B) -- Argentina -- Bahamas -- Barbados -- Belize -- Bolivia -- Brazil -- Canada -- Chile -- Colombia -- Costa Rica -- Cuba -- Dominica -- Dominican Republic (dr) -- Ecuador -- El Salvador -- Grenada -- Guatemala -- Guyana -- Haiti -- Honduras -- Jamaica -- Mexico -- Nicaragua -- Panama -- Paraguay -- Peru -- Saint Kitts and Nevis -- Saint Lucia -- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines -- Surinam -- Trinidad and Tobago (t&t) -- United States of America -- Uruguay -- Venezuela -- 6 Comparative Conclusions by Individual Mode of Acquisition and Mode of Loss of Citizenship -- Bibliography -- Index.