Senegal is on course to become the first African Union (AU) member state to sign and ratify the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights relating to the right to a nationality and the eradication of statelessness Read More …
GLOBALCIT Co-Director Maarten Vink testified on July 21st 2026, before Italy’s Constitutional Affairs Committee on a proposed amendment to the citizenship law, drawing on GLOBACIT data on citizenship laws in force across 32 European states (EU, EFTA, and the UK). Read More …
The Council of the European Union has adopted a revised directive extending and clarifying electoral rights for EU citizens who live in a member state other than their own, updating legislation that had remained largely unchanged since 1994. The directive originated from a Read More …
In 2024, the Global Citizenship Observatory launched the GLOBALCIT– Rainer Bauböck Essay Award on the Global State of Citizenship. The Award aims to encourage and highlight original thinking by early-career scholars on a topic related to present and future challenges Read More …
A prize for the best essay on citizenship in a global perspective. Read More …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
