Editing Jus soli (section)

===Reduction of statelessness===
[[File:CRS members.svg|thumb|A map of parties to the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. Parties to Convention in dark green; countries which have signed, but not ratified in light green; non-members in grey.]]
Countries that have acceded to the 1961 [[Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness]] are obligated to grant nationality to people born in their territory who would otherwise become [[stateless person]]s.<ref>Ivan Shearer & Brian Opeskin, "Nationality and Statelessness" ''Foundations of International Migration Law'' (eds. Brian Opeskin, Richard Perruchoud & Jillyanne Redpath-Cross: Cambridge University Press, 2012), p. 99.</ref>{{efn|Parties to the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness are also obligated to grant nationality to people who are born aboard [[Flag state|ships flagged]] in the country or an [[Aircraft registration|aircraft registered]] in the country who would otherwise become stateless.<ref name="Chen223"/>}}<ref name=Weissbrodt/> These mixed systems were implemented to fulfill treaty obligations after the atrocities of [[World War II]] increased awareness about the vulnerability of stateless persons.<ref name="Citizenship"/><ref>{{cite web |last1=Bloom |first1=Tendayi |title=Problematizing the Conventions on Statelessness |url=https://collections.unu.edu/eserv/UNU:1969/pdf0201BLOOM.pdf |website=The United Nations University Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility |quote=Hannah Arendt argued that in Nazi Germany and the territories occupied by the regime, making Jews stateless enabled them to be treated differently from citizens. She writes that 'the Jews had to lose their nationality before they could be exterminated'...Stateless persons are often extremely vulnerable, and may find themselves excluded from the legal labour market, from property ownership and other basic rights, making them easily subject to exploitation.}}</ref>

The [[American Convention on Human Rights]] similarly provides that "Every person has the right to the nationality of the state in whose territory he was born if he does not have the right to any other nationality."<ref name="Chen223">Lung-chu Chen,
|-''An Introduction to Contemporary International Law: A Policy-Oriented Perspective'' ([[Oxford University Press]], 2015), p. 223.</ref>