Más allá del (ir)refutable nexo poligamia-desintegración social en la jurisprudencia contencioso-administrativa del Tribunal Supremo

Abstract

The articles 21 and 22 of the Civil Code hold the concession of the Spanish citizenship for residence  under two kind of conditions:  firstly, the legal, continued  and immediately previous  residence  during the period of ten, five, two or one year; secondly  different  indeterminate  legal concepts:  good civic behaviour  and the suff icient degree of integration in  the Spanish society and f inally the non-attendance  of public order or national interest. On this base, the insuff icient degree of social integration in polygamy cases is one of most repeated and controversial  reasons for the denial of citizenship  in the administrative  case law of the Spanish Supreme Court. Nevertheless,  the legal basis of the decisions presents an uncritical mimetism concerning the irrefutable nexus polygamy and social disintegration. This paper is focused on the study of inconsistencies  and reasonable  doubts which raised the “thick” argument of the moral repugnance and the abusive use of the social integration as appendix of the public order.