GLOBALCIT announces the publication of an open access dataset that tracks the restrictions to international travel implemented by governments in response to COVID-19, created by Lorenzo Piccoli, Jelena Dzankic, and Andreas Perret. The dataset has global coverage. It provides robust Read More …
On 6 May 2020, GlobalCit and the Migration Policy Centre will host a Webinar with three presentations on ‘The effects of COVID-19 on Mobility and Citizenship’. ‘The Effects of COVID-19 on Citizenship’ by Jelena Dzankic and Lorenzo Piccoli ‘The effects of Covid-19 on Read More …
GLOBALCIT Research Associate Lorenzo Piccoli has published an analysis of the effects of COVID-19 on vulnerable populations in The Washington Post. In his piece, Piccoli explores how, despite the shared experience of mass immobility, disparities in wealth and status create Read More …
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 …
