On 20 October 2019, Swiss citizens elected a new National Council and voted in the first round of elections for the Council of States. While this was reported as a ‘historic election’, only 45.1 percent of the Swiss citizens went Read More …
In September 2019, the Open Society Institute published a report showing that members of marginalised groups in the US are at risk of being stripped of their citizenship status. Unmaking Americans: Insecure Citizenship in the United States discusses three mechanisms that the administration Read More …
In his article entitled Par le sol et par le sang. Le droit de la nationalité dans le monde [Through soil and through blood. Nationality law around the world] Jean-François Mignot prominently features GLOBALCIT’s CITLAW Indicators and the Global Birthright Indicators. The article is written Read More …
GLOBALCIT welcomes three new Research Associates. In 2019, Ashley Mantha-Hollands, Luuk van der Baren and Merve Erdilmen will work on the EU-CITZEN project. EU-CITZEN is an academic network providing the European Commission with the best independent scholarly knowledge and advice on Read More …
On September 11, the Swiss government has revoked the nationality of a man previously convicted for terrorist activities and linkages to the organisation Al-Nusra in the canton of Ticino and in the north of Italy. The denationalised Swiss citizen was also a Turkish Read More …
The Indian state of Assam is updating for the first time in its history the National Register of Citizens (NRC), which was created in 1951 to determine who was born in the state and is Indian, and who might be Read More …
On July 7 the High Court of Ireland delivered a judgment that significantly alters the rules for ordinary naturalisation applicants. The judgment could affect thousands of people applying for Irish citizenship on the basis of residence in the country. The Read More …
In June 2019 the German legislator has passed a number of significant changes to German citizenship law. According to Section 28 of the German Nationality Act, a German citizen loses his or her nationality if he or she has been Read More …
The EUI seeks applications for a chair in citizenship studies, a core EUI strength. The chair is located in the flagship Global Governance Programme (GGP) of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. The EUI seeks senior candidates with a Read More …
On 26 June, GLOBALCIT Co-Director Maarten Vink speaks at the 2019 World Conference on Statelessness and Inclusion in a panel on “Developing new tools to raise awareness, assess policy and help advocate for solving statelessness.” Maarten will discuss GLOBALCIT data Read More …
