Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT)

The Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT) is an online observatory committed to fact-based and non-partisan analysis of citizenship laws and electoral rights around the world. We are a global research network based at the European University Institute as part of the Global Governance Programme at the Robert Schuman Centre. Learn more about us, or stay up to date by subscribing to our newsletter. Also check out the Global State of Citizenship Report, 2025.

Announcements

GLOBALCIT Seminar, Citizenship as a new aristocracy? Blood, exclusion and republican membership, 15 October 2026.

GLOBALCIT Publications

Country Report: Citizenship in Kuwait

Working Paper: Thickening European Union citizenship out of thin air : from Rottmann to Commission v Malta

New literature

Reforming Citizenship, Remaking the People: Nationality Law and Boundary-Making in Contemporary Nationhood
Reforming Citizenship, Remaking the People: Nationality Law and Boundary-Making in Contemporary Nationhood
José Renato Nascimento Tiraboschi Filho, Reforming Citizenship, Remaking the People: Nationality Law and Boundary-Making in Contemporary Nationhood, Nations and Nationalism, 2026.
Dual citizenship as a threshold institution: Germany’s citizenship reform and transnational political participation among people of Turkiye-origin
Dual citizenship as a threshold institution: Germany’s citizenship reform and transnational political participation among people of Turkiye-origin
Inci Öykü Yener-Roderburg, Dual citizenship as a threshold institution: Germany’s citizenship reform and transnational political participation among people of Turkiye-origin, Third World Quarterly, 2026.
Citizenship as transnational mobility capital
Citizenship as transnational mobility capital
Christian Brown Prener, Citizenship as transnational mobility capital, International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, 2026.

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