This article presents an analysis of the multiple purposes of citizenship regimes in 36 states in Europe. Previous studies on this topic suffer from two methodological deficits that lead to an incomplete perspective on how states regulate citizenship status: they Read More …
Why do some immigrants naturalize and others not? While much of the literature emphasizes the importance of country of origin features and individual characteristics, there is surprisingly little systematic research on the relation between citizenship policies in destination countries and Read More …
A recent study has highlighted serious problems in the ‘Life in the UK’ test which applicants for naturalisation have to take in order to become British citizens. Read the academic study and blog entry by Thom Brooks from Durham University. Read More …
By EUDO-CITIZENSHIP expert Andrea Baršová. On 11 June 2013 the Czech Chamber of Deputies cast a final vote on the new citizenship law. By this vote the Chamber outvoted the Senate amendments[1] and enacted the bill as approved by the Read More …
Read the news report in the Slovak Spectator. Learn more about dual citizenship for transborder minorities on our Citizenship Forum page: How to respond to the Hungarian-Slovak tit-for-tat?
Read the news report in DW. On the same topic, read the news report by Rainer Bauböck published in January 2013.
By EUDO-CITIZENSHIP co-director Jo Shaw. The failure of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s law-makers to adopt legislation to replace a law annulled by the Constitutional Court in 2011, which makes provision for the registration of new born babies, has highlighted many of the contradictions Read More …
Read the full story in The Herald Scotland.
Read the full story in The Scotsman and BBC News.
This article explores the interactions between the EU rules on the free movement of persons and the institutions and legal structures of UK immigration law, by providing a case study of the implementation of EU free movement rules in the Read More …
