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

The economic returns to citizenship: Evidence from a meta-analysis
The economic returns to citizenship: Evidence from a meta-analysis
Jens Hainmueller and David D. Laitin, The economic returns to citizenship: Evidence from a meta-analysis,  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2026.
Access to citizenship in selected European countries: comparative perspectives on legal regimes and intensity of acquisitions
Access to citizenship in selected European countries: comparative perspectives on legal regimes and intensity of acquisitions
Maria Vittoria Forte and Salvatore Strozza, Access to citizenship in selected European countries: comparative perspectives on legal regimes and intensity of acquisitions, Frontiers in Sociology: Migration and Society, 2026.
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.

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