On 30 March 2020, Eurostat published its annual statistics on the acquisition of citizenship in the European Union (EU), covering the period between 1 January and 31 December 2018. During that period, the 27 Member States granted citizenship to 672,300 Read More …
We write as U.S. political scientists who are also parents, children, and concerned citizens, to urge that measures be taken right now to ensure that a free, fair, and smooth election can take place this coming November.
A forthcoming special issue of Citizenship Studies ‘The Power to Expel: Deportation and Denationalisation in Historical, Legal and Normative Perspective’ (vol. 24, no. 3, May 2020) has been guest-edited by GLOBALCIT collaborator Rutger Birnie and co-director Rainer Bauböck. All articles are already available online. This special issue is Read More …
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) recently released its first global report on the state of national migration governance. The report, Migration Governance Indicators: A Global Perspective, provides a global overview on migration governance based on data collected and analysed Read More …
On 11 December 2019, the Parliament of India amended the Citizenship Act of 1955 approving a proposal of Amit Shah, India’s home minister and member of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) of 2019 provides a path Read More …
In October 2019, the Parliament of Latvia passed a law, which will enable children born in Latvia to two ‘non-citizen’ parents to receive either this country’s citizenship or citizenship of another country upon the request of both parents. The child Read More …
On 28 January 2019, the Estonian parliament approved an amendment to the Citizenship Act that enables children born to a parent with undetermined citizenship (the so-called grey passport) to be naturalised as a minor. The condition is that the parents Read More …
We congratulate Jelena Džankić, the GLOBALCIT coordinator since 2015, who has been appointed as Part-time Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. This appointment comes in recognition of Jelena’s academic achievements. She has recently published her second monograph Read More …
In “Having nine passports is rare; here’s how it could happen” published in this month’s issue of National Geographic our co-director Maarten Vink explains how an individual could obtain up to nine passports in view of the growing tolerance of Read More …
The GLOBALCIT Annual Conference The Value of Citizenship for Individuals and States took place at the EUI on 21 and 22 November 2019. Marking the tenth anniversary of GLOBALCIT, the event was a truly special one. The two keynote speeches, Read More …
