How do the states in Western Europe turn outsiders into insiders? This article examines that question by introducing a new qualitative framework that we term national membership conditionality structures (MCS). This framework includes not only status acquisition rules, such as Read More …
After having coordinated their nationality laws since the late 19th century, the Scandinavian countries have moved in distinctly different directions in this field since the turn of the millennium. Today Sweden has one of the most liberal citizenship policies in Read More …
Citizens from most EU countries living in the UK will not get a vote in the referendum on Europe, No 10 has said. The eligibility rules will be broadly the same as for a general election, rather than local Read More …
The question of who votes in what elections is usually thought to be a rather nerdy and obscure question, and it doesn’t often capture the public imagination. So it was quite something to see an announcement from Number 10 in advance of the publication of the EU Referendum Bill telling us what the franchise is going to be in the referendum trending as ‘most popular’ and as a ‘top story’ on the BBC News website
Costica Dumbrava and Rainer Bauböck (eds.): Bloodlines and belonging : time to abandon “ius sanguinis”?. EUI Working Paper RSCAS 2015/80. Read More …
This paper investigates the relationship between global inequality and dual citizenship by analysing citizenship acquisition from abroad in the European Union (EU). Most EU countries now offer facilitated naturalisation to descendants of emigrants and co-ethnics abroad, which requires neither residence Read More …
I analyze the changes to naturalization and jus soli legislation in EU28 states between 1992 and 2013, examining the links with the party composition of the cabinet in power. The direction, inclusive or restrictive, of the 104 changes to legislation Read More …
A new bill foreseeing the granting of Greek citizenship to tens of thousands of second-generation immigrants was put up for public consultation on Thursday. Read the news report in Ekhatimerini
By Jelena Dzankic On 5 and 6 May 2015, Henley & Partners, a company specialising in residence and citizenship planning, held its annual forum at the Dolder Grand Hotel in Zurich. The 2015 Henley & Partners Forum gathered around Read More …
BY EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert Oxana Shevel The case of four Crimean residents, including a well known film director Oleg Sentsov, who were arrested in Crimea in May of last year, and since then transferred to Russia and held in jail Read More …
