This book examines the fascinating origins and the complex evolution of Italian national citizenship from the unification of Italy in 1861 until just after World War II. It does so by exploring the civic history of Italians in the peninsula, Read More …
Various EU member states include in their naturalisation framework some form of approximation of the concept defined by the UK government as “earned citizenship”, requiring that prospective citizens prove that they “deserve” national citizenship. In this article, we examine this Read More …
The book explores the current role of nationality from the point of view of international law, reassessing the validity of the ‘classical’, state-centered, approach to nationality in light of the ‘new’ role the human being is gradually acquiring within the Read More …
Over the past decade, a new and intriguing phenomenon developed in Israel: close to 60,000 Israelis applied for citizenship in the Central and Eastern European countries from which their families immigrated. Typically, these new dual citizens have no plans to Read More …
The right to free movement granted to all European Union citizens represents a unique experiment in the contemporary history of global migration systems. To date, however, the integration of mobile EU citizens as a specific target group has not been Read More …
Over the past years, there has been a notable increase in attention paid to legal issues in relation to the family dimension of loss and acquisition of nationality in Council of Europe member states. These are numerous and of considerably Read More …
This paper describes and analyses the usefulness of naturalisation rates as an indicator for political incorporation of migrants in Europe. This paper was developed in light of the production of indicators of migrant integration across Europe by the European Commission, Read More …
Russian Citizenship is the first book to trace the Russian state’s citizenship policy throughout its history. Focusing on the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the consolidation of Stalin’s power in the 1930s, Eric Lohr considers whom the state counted Read More …
This paper deals with dual citizenship by naturalisation. It analyses the current situation in Europe with a specific focus on Lichtenstein. Publication details and link to source: Martina Sochin d’Elia (collaborator Michael Kieber), ‘Doppelte Staatsbürgerschaft bei Naturalisierung – Eine europäische Read More …
In this paper I analyse the scope of the choice of law offered to parties in various family relationships (such as divorce, matrimonial contracts or alimony). In several jurisdictions and under rules of European private international law, parties may select Read More …
