By EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert Sampo Brander The Committee of Ministers of the Finnish Government wants to find out which government posts and tasks could be compromised by the loyalty and fidelity of officials holding dual citizenship. Read the Read More …
Political theorists hardly ever use empirical data when they discuss the problem of irregular migration. This article tries to fill this gap by engaging with sociological records provided by the CLANDESTINO project, which has produced country reports of data and Read More …
European Union law has developed a concept of Union citizenship based on a right of exit from one’s country and a consequential right of entry in another Member State of the Union. ‘Empowering’ European citizens and enabling them to integrate Read More …
This special issue of IDENTITIES critically discusses the contemporary validity of national models of immigrant integration in Europe. A variety of authors systematically compare the differences and similarities of their integration models in seven European countries. Although the importance of Read More …
Electoral participation of immigrants is an important issue in Europe, particularly because immigrants vote less often than natives. This may suggest a lack of political integration and might result in proportionally lower representation in parliament, in turn affecting democratic legitimacy. Read More …
Since 2012, applicants for naturalisation in the Netherlands must produce a birth certificate. This rule also applies to refugees, many of whom do not have such documents. Read the news report in Dutch News.
By EUDO CITIZENSHIP experts Maria Teresa Zegada and Jean-Michel Lafleur On 12th October 2014, Evo Morales was re-elected for a third term as President following a large victory in the general elections. For the second time Bolivians residing abroad Read More …
How are elections affected by the votes of people living abroad? The majority of states now allow extra-territorial voting in some form, but the research literature on this topic remains underdeveloped. Moreover, even though extra-territorial voting raises issues about the Read More …
A 75-year-old US citizen who taught as a professor at ETH Zurich was denied Swiss citizenship after local officials in the municipality of Einsielden ruled he did not know enough about the region where he has lived for 39 years. Read More …
By EUDO CITIZENSHIP expert Dimitris Christopoulos In 2013, a group of retired military officers and a Greek citizen demanded the nullification of a Decision by the Minister of Defense (April 15th 2011) allowing all Greek citizens to take the Read More …
