Webinar: The Citizenship-Migration-Mobility Nexus
What are the linkages between citizenship, migration and mobility? This GLOBALCIT webinar will take place on 27 April 2021 at 18.00 – 19.30 CEST.
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Lorenzo Piccoli moves from GLOBALCIT to MPC as Research Fellow
Lorenzo Piccoli officially joined the GLOBALCIT team as a Research Associate in 2018, but he has been a much valued collaborator for five years before that. He made a substantial contribution to a number of earlier GLOBALCIT initiatives, including the Read More …
Webinar: Dual Citizenship, Diaspora Engagement and Development
What is the role of dual citizenship in engaging diaspora communities in the economic and political development of home countries? The next GLOBALCIT webinar is scheduled for 23 March 2020 at 18.00 – 19.30 CET.
Bulgaria amends its citizenship law
On 26 February, the Parliament of Bulgaria approved amendments to the Law on Bulgarian Citizenship. Legislative changes, which were adopted with near unanimity, mostly concerned the existing provisions that allow third-country nationals to obtain Bulgarian passports in exchange for investment.
Webinar: Citizenship, Inequality and Justice
Our next webinar gathers four speakers in roundtable discussions on the equality paradox at the heart of citizenship.
One fifth of the resident Swiss are dual nationals
The Federal Statistical Office (FSO) of Switzerland has announced that, in 2019, almost a million of the country’s resident population were dual Swiss nationals.
Japan Upholds Dual Citizenship Ban
The Tokyo District Court argued that allowing dual citizenship for Japanese citizens ‘could cause conflict in the rights and obligations between countries, as well as between the individual and the state’.
Webinar: Investor Citizenship
Our next webinar gathers six speakers in roundtable discussions on the opportunities and challenges of investor citizenship in a globalising world.
Italy shortens time to naturalisation decisions
Italy decided to shorten from four to two years the administrative procedure for decisions on naturalisation (for residence- and marriage-based citizenship acquisition).
France facilitates citizenship for COVID-19 frontline workers
French authorities have granted citizenship to approximately 74 “frontline foreign workers in the face of the health crisis” caused by COVID-19, and another 693 are in the final stages.