2026 Rainer Bauböck Essay Award on the Global State of Citizenship
A prize for the best essay on citizenship in a global perspective. Read More …
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Ashley Mantha-Hollands Appointed GLOBALCIT Coordinator
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Ashley Mantha-Hollands as GLOBALCIT Coordinator and Research Fellow at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, European University Institute. Ashley will take over the expert network coordination and other management tasks from Read More …
New GLOBALCIT study compares conditions for citizenship acquisition by immigrants and their descendants
GLOBALCIT has published a new study on “Citizenship acquisition by immigrants and their descendants: an international legal comparison”. This report, commissioned by the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) in Switzerland, provides a comparative study of conditions and procedures for the Read More …
Webinar: Online Launch of the Migrant Electoral Rights (MER) dataset
Join this webinar to explore the most comprehensive dataset on migrant voting and candidacy rights worldwide, covering 165 countries from 1960 to 2020. Suffrage is a central element of democracy. Over time, electoral rights have increasingly become available to migrants, Read More …
Rainer Bauböck speaks at launch event of International IDEA’s Global State of Democracy Report
On 11 September 2025, GLOBALCIT Co-Director Rainer Bauböck participated as a panellist in the global launch of International IDEA’s Global State of Democracy Report 2025: ‘Democracy on the Move’, in Stockholm, Sweden. The report, part of the long-running Global State Read More …
Timothy Anderson: Winner of the 2025 GLOBALCIT – Rainer Bauböck Essay Award on the Global State of Citizenship
We are delighted to announce that Timothy Raymond Anderson has been awarded the 2025 GLOBALCIT – Rainer Bauböck Essay Award on the Global State of Citizenship for his essay Civilisational Citizenship: Geopolitics and the Remaking of Belonging in Estonia. The Read More …
The Global State of Citizenship
GLOBALCIT has officially launched its 2025 report on The Global State of Citizenship. Read the report here. Watch the Webinar here.
GLOBALCIT recognises Sara Wallace Goodman as Senior Research Associate
In view of her important contribution to the ongoing work of GLOBALCIT, we recognise Sara Wallace Goodman as Senior Research Associate. Sara Wallace Goodman is a Chancellor’s Fellow and Dean’s Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine, where she Read More …
Rainer Bauböck 2025 Essay Award on the Global State of Citizenship: Applications Open
The Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT), a global research network committed to fact-based and non-partisan analysis of citizenship laws and electoral rights around the world, is soliciting submissions for the GLOBALCIT – Rainer Bauböck 2025 Essay Award on the Global State Read More …
Roberto Ramos Obando: winner of the GLOBALCIT – Rainer Bauböck Essay Award on the Global State of Citizenship
We are delighted to announce that Roberto Ramos Obando has been awarded the 2024 GLOBALCIT – Rainer Bauböck Essay Award on the Global State of Citizenship for his essay “Climate Change and the Transformation of Citizenship”. The award aims to Read More …