Sandra Mantu examines the changing rules of citizenship deprivation in the UK, France and Germany from the perspective of international and European legal standards. In practice, two grounds upon which loss of citizenship takes place stand out: fraud in the Read More …
What happens to the citizen when states and nations come into being? How do the different ways in which states and nations exist define relations between individuals, groups, and the government? Are all citizens equal in their rights and duties Read More …
This special issue looks at how Europeanisation affects the link between citizenship and governance in and across the new states of South East Europe. Contributors unpack the intimate relationship between the European Union, national governments, and citizens through a tripartite Read More …
Many people think that citizenship should not be for sale. On their view, it is morally wrong for states to sell citizenship to foreigners. In this article, I challenge this view. I argue that it is in principle permissible for Read More …
The law on dual citizenship adopted in Parliament in June came into effect on 1 September. As of today, applicants to Danish citizenship will no longer have to renounce their citizenship of origin. Meanwhile, all Danes who already gave Read More …
The number of of foreigners acquiring Czech citizenship through naturalisation has almost doubled in 2014, as sharp rise mainly due to a 2013 reform of the nationality law allowing naturalised citizens to retain their citizenship of origin. Read the Read More …
This paper examines globalization’s effect on the collection of international migration statistics, specifically related to an associated rise in dual citizenship. While dual citizen- ship has grown in recent decades, there has been little empirical research to measure its size, Read More …
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Between 2009 and 2014, 26,000 persons have acquired Luxembourgish citizenship, a sharp increase compared to earlier periods. Most naturalised citizens are in fact former citizens and their descendants residing in Belgium or France who ‘recovered’ their nationality in the wake Read More …
Malta has adopted a points system to allow citizenship applicants for the Individual Investor Program (IIP) to reduce the time they have to spend in Malta in order to be considered “effective residents” as per the program requirements, www.investinimmigration.com reports. Read Read More …
