| Abstract | Sentiment apart, issues of nationality and the rights of residence and permanent abode are inherently sensitive and tricky ones in law, involving as they do several sovereignties and their respective legislative provisions. They are the locus of conflict between laws, which differ from country to country, and the requirement to protect individuals, their acquired rights, thier nationality and their right to a country. While the latter are sometimes in contradiction with the former. Hong Kong is no exception - it is a typical example, albeit a particularly sensitive one, of the problems which arise in international private law when the laws of one sovereign state conflict with those of another. Any objective analysis of the Hong Kong problem and of how the right of abode question might be resolved in this specific instance must recognise this fact. |
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