Spanish citizenship and responsibility for the past: the case of the Sephardim, Moriscos, and Saharawis

In 2015, Spain passed a law expediting citizenship for the descendants of the Sephardic Jews expelled in 1492, but not to the descendants of the Moriscos expelled in 1609. In this essay, I use Spain’s 2015 citizenship law as a test case for assessing thre