Kickoff contribution by Bronwen Manby. Comments by Diego Acosta, Irene Bloemraad, Barbara von Ruette, Sanzhuan Guo , Sujata Ramachandran , Erin Aeran Chung, Christine Hobden, Alfred Babo, Luicy Pedroza, Imke Harbers,Amal de Chickera, Yonatan T. Fessha, Lillian Frost, Ibrahima KaneRainer Bauböck and, Bronwen Manby
Three of GLOBALCIT’s co-directors (Rainer Bauböck, Jelena Džankić and Jo Shaw) want to welcome Professor Maarten Vink’s appointment as Professor of Citizenship Studies at the European University Institute, within the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. Congratulations on this richly deserved accolade!
Our next webinar gathers six speakers in roundtable discussions on the opportunities and challenges of investor citizenship in a globalising world.
Traditionally understudied by scholars of social policy, migration and territorial politics, the rescaling of socio-economic and cultural policies to the subnational level has, combined with decentralisation reforms, turned immigrant integration, encompassing the socio-economic, cultural-religious and legal-political realms, into a competence of sub-national authorities.
After the last amendment, that took place in 2018, the Portuguese Nationality Act was revised once again on the 10th November 2020. These amendments involve a major revision of the basic principles of the Portuguese Nationality Law.
Odile Ammann
Passports for Sale: How (Un)Meritocratic Are Citizenship by Investment Programmes?
European Journal of Migration and Law
2020
Djordje Sredanovic
The tactics and strategies of naturalisation: UK and EU27 citizens in the context of Brexit
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
2020
Chulwoo Lee
Nation v. State: Constitutionalizing Transnational Nationhood, Creating Ethnizens, and Engaging with Kin-Foreigners in Europe and Asia
Asian Journal of Law and Society
2020
Italy decided to shorten from four to two years the administrative procedure for decisions on naturalisation (for residence- and marriage-based citizenship acquisition).
French authorities have granted citizenship to approximately 74 “frontline foreign workers in the face of the health crisis” caused by COVID-19, and another 693 are in the final stages.
Alex Green
Three Models of Political Membership: Delineating ‘The People in Question’
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
2020
Rezart Hoxhaj, Maarten Vink and Tijana Breuer
Immigrant Naturalisation, Employment and Occupational Status in Western Europe
Frontiers in Sociology
2020
