The second issue in EIA’s 30th anniversary volume includes an exchange discussing Patti Tamara Lenard’s article on democracies and the power to revoke citizenship (EIA 30.1), with contributions by Elizabeth F. Cohen, Ben Herzog, and David Miller, and with a Read More …
Citizenship does not equal belonging. In this paper, we investigate how the disjunction between the ‘imagined community’ and the formal citizenry impacts on citizens’ rights. In particular, we analyse decision-making on the family migration rights of citizens in France, Germany Read More …
Naturalisations do not happen automatically – unlike the acquisition of nationality at birth – but must be brought about deliberately. The varying ways naturalisations are organized in any society therefore offer an opportunity to gain clues as to which criteria Read More …
Acceptance of dual citizenship allows migrants to naturalise in the country of residence (CoR) without giving up their former citizenship. For migrant sending countries the question emerges whether emigrants who acquire another citizenship are less attached to and politically active Read More …
As of April 2016, a total of 143 applicants for Malta’s Immigrant Investor Programme (IIP) have completed the process. The revenue for the country’s government from property purchase through the programme amounted to 25.5 million euros, 12.3 million from rentals, Read More …
To have a nationality is a human right. But between the nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, virtually every country in the world adopted laws that stripped citizenship from women who married foreign men. Despite the resulting hardships and even statelessness experienced Read More …
The UK High Court has ruled in the case Harry Shindler MBE, Jacquelyn MacLennan -v- Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs that Section 2 of the EU Referendum Act 2015 does not Read More …
In the last two weeks of April, the National Assembly of Bulgaria has approved a series of amendments to its Electoral Code. New rules include mandatory voting for resident citizens accompanied by deletion from electoral roll if the citizen fails Read More …
Between 2004 and 2006, more than 420,000 foreigners, many of them formerly undocumented immigrants, were granted Venezuelan nationality. This article presents the (historical) context, the Venezuelan immigration and nationality policies, and the three core elements of the naturalization campaign. It Read More …
The case of Harry Shindler and Jacquelyn MacLennan, British expatriates who are not allowed to vote in the EU referendum because they have lived abroad for more than 15 years will be deliberated by the Supreme Court in an an Read More …
