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

Call for Papers, CITREST Restitutive Citizenship and the Right to Return: Historical Justice, Spatiality, and the Boundaries of Belonging, Abstract 30th of September 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

Needs That Bind: Materializing Nationality in Post-Ottoman Regimes
Needs That Bind: Materializing Nationality in Post-Ottoman Regimes
Orçun Can Okan, Needs That Bind: Materializing Nationality in Post-Ottoman Regimes, Stanford University Press, 2026.
Actual or Presumed Citizenship? Rethinking Renunciation Requirements for Persons of Mixed Parentage in Tanzania
Actual or Presumed Citizenship? Rethinking Renunciation Requirements for Persons of Mixed Parentage in Tanzania
Dr. Clement B. Mubanga, Actual or Presumed Citizenship? Rethinking Renunciation Requirements for Persons of Mixed Parentage in Tanzania, Journal of Migration and Security Studies, 2026.
Exclusive capital: how Ghanaian return migrants value dual citizenship
Exclusive capital: how Ghanaian return migrants value dual citizenship
Julia Schweers, Exclusive capital: how Ghanaian return migrants value dual citizenship, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2026.

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