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citizenship, Georgia, constitution, social rights
Abstract
It is widely recognized that there is a considerable gap between liberal legislation and the actual practice of the enforcement of citizenship rights in Georgia. The Article presents relative outlook of current Georgian legislation, relevant to citizenship and its actual practice. The Content of this text is based on the most legal document - the Constitution of Georgia adopted in August 1995. Mainly on it's Chapter 2 - dedicated to the rights and freedoms of its citizens. Another official document taken in account is Law on Citizenship of Georgia adopted on April, 1993. (Both used documents are written and published in Georgian). Challenges that exist between legislation and practice are based on author's observation done during the different (private and official) visits to Georgia and also from internet mass media. There are five parts of the article and they all are only small part of complex study of South Caucasus Region done for the needs of the Polish-Georgian international project financed by MSZ RP. First part of this issue - a background - presents a short historical review about South Caucasus; second - citizenship as a status - is about the current Georgian legislation, relevant to citizenship; third one is called citizenship in practice and touch the gap between legislation and practice. The forth part - citizenship as a contested issue - about debate in Georgia. And the fifth one concluding remarks.
