In R (Johnson) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2016] UKSC 56, the UK Supreme Court unanimously decided that deporting an individual who would have had British citizenship but for the marital status of his or her parents Read More …
Denationalisation – withdrawing citizenship from a person – is a practice with a long historic pedigree that continues to affect the lives of many people today. Are there conditions under which denationalisation is morally justified? If so, what are they? Read More …
With the help of the Immigrant Inclusion Index (IMIX), a quantitative tool for measuring the electoral inclusion of immigrants, we demonstrate that European democracies are much more exclusive than they should be. All normative theories of democracy share the conviction Read More …
How does international migration impact the composition of the demos? Constitutional doctrines and democratic theories suggest contrasting responses: an insular one excludes both non-citizen immigrants and citizen-emigrants; a deterritorialised one includes all citizens wherever they reside; a postnational one includes Read More …
Australia remains one of the last liberal democracies to retain a property franchise at the local government level. This particular feature is both the result of historical particularities and contemporary political arrangements. This article analyses the property franchise in the Read More …
International refugee law anticipates state conduct in relation to nationality, statelessness, and protection. Refugee status under the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees 1951 and regional and domestic instruments referring to it can be fully understood only against the Read More …
Legal Voice reports a case of Emmy, a 19 year-old woman, who was born in the UK to foreign nationals without an indefinite leave to remain. Under Section 1(4) of the 1981 British Nationality Act, Emmy has had the right Read More …
Isn’t it about time that universal suffrage was introduced in Brussels? Don’t we already have it? We don’t. Here are the facts.
Over a third of the Brussels population is disenfranchised
Very roughly, the population of the Brussels-Capital region, one of the three regions of the Belgian federal
India’s internal circular migrants are excluded from political representation and social protection, argues Indrajit Roy for Open Democracy.The number of internal migrants in India ranges between 30 and 100 million. They commonly work in guarded or fenced worksites away from Read More …
Piecing together Europe’s citizenship is the work of a civil society activist and European affairs expert rather than an academic. His life-long experience with the EU is a unique feature of this book. The main thesis that European citizenship is Read More …
