The Impact of Brexit on Black Women, Children and Citizenship.

Throughout the Brexit countdowns between 2016 and 2020, attention was paid to the impact of Brexit on adult EU citizens in the UK and adult UK citizens in the EU. These rights arose from the ruling in the Z I ambrano i case of 2009 (C-34/09), where the CJEU established two key rights: (1) EU citizenship rights for non-migrant Member State nationals; (2) the right to residence to non-EU nationals in order to care for their children holding national and EU citizenship. The importance of EU law for these infant EU citizens and their non-EU parents (Zambrano families) was overlooked during the Brexit period. The loss of these rights could have been avoided if the EU had paid attention to all of EU citizenship law and the rights of the child set out in EU human rights law: Article 24 CFR says that: 1. [Extracted from the article]