In the European Union (EU) the issue of citizenship can be brought to the supranational level because the citizenship of EU Member States is also EU citizenship. This provides certain opportunities for engaging the norms and principles of EU law, such as the principle of proportionality. However, ethnic and other nationalisms undermine the application of the principle of proportionality as regards access to and loss of citizenship.
In February 2021, the Supreme Court decided that Shamima Begum should not be allowed back into the UK to conduct her appeal against the deprivation of her citizenship. This decision is a victory for discretionary use of expansive state powers under minimal judicial scrutiny.
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!
Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico, Gian Luca Tedeschi,
“Strangers and Foreigners: Trust and Attitudes toward Citizenship in Sub-Saharan Africa“,
The World Bank Economic Review,
2024.
Ayla Deniz and Sibel Can Çetinkaya,
“Intermediaries of citizenship by investment and Türkiye: ‘global citizenship market grows with us’”,
Globalisations,
2024.
Seeking submissions for the GLOBALCIT – Rainer Bauböck 2024 Essay Award on the Global State of Citizenship.
A new political party in Germany set up by supporters of Turkish president Erdoǧan has been met with a political backlash, though similar parties in Germany were previously unsuccessful. In this blog, we discuss the motivations and candidates of this party, parallels with parties in other EU countries, and its prospects in German politics in connection with a recent citizenship reform.
Andrea Marilyn Pragashini Immanuel,
“The right to nationality of the Saharawis and their legal identity documents“,
Citizenship Studies,
2024.
In this post, Bronwen Manby discusses the events leading up to the adoption of a draft protocol by the African Union on statelessness and the right to a nationality in Africa. The post also the key provisions of the protocol on the ‘specific aspects’ of statelessness and right to a nationality.
Constitutional challenges to the stripping of Australian citizenship have been both rare, and unsuccessful, but over the last 18 months the High Court has handed down three decisions in this space. This post examines 2 of the challenges that concerned revocation due to a dis-allegiance and explores the constitutional issues that arise from these decisions.
Melle Scholten and David Leblang,
“Land/Labor Ratios, Citizenship, and Migrants: Exploring the Hidden Links in the Political Economy of Immigration Regimes“,
Project MUSE: John Hopkins University Press,
2024.
Alicia Poole and Thomas Soehl,
“A Citizen Just Like You: The Role of Complex Contagion and Resemblance for Decisions to Naturalize“,
International Migration Review,
2023.
