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The effects of COVID-19 on mobility and citizenship

Posted onApril 28, 2020May 8, 2020

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 …

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Effects of the coronavirus restrictions on vulnerable populations

Posted onApril 6, 2020April 6, 2020

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 …

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Eurostat: 672,300 people acquired citizenship in the EU27 in 2018

Posted onMarch 31, 2020March 31, 2020

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 …

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Political scientists call for a regular election in the U.S.

Posted onMarch 25, 2020March 25, 2020

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.

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Special Issue on Deportation and Denationalisation based on a GLOBALCIT workshop

Posted onMarch 6, 2020March 6, 2020

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 …

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GLOBALCIT features in IOM report on Migration Governance Indicators

Posted onFebruary 25, 2020February 25, 2020

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 …

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Controversial Citizenship Amendment Act sparks protests in India

Posted onFebruary 13, 2020October 7, 2020

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 …

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No children born with a ‘non-citizen’ status in Latvia from 1 January 2020

Posted onFebruary 11, 2020February 11, 2020

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 …

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Estonia relaxes naturalisation rules for children – with questionable impact

Posted onFebruary 5, 2020February 11, 2020

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 …

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Jelena Džankić appointed Part-time Professor and GLOBALCIT Co-Director

Posted onFebruary 4, 2020February 4, 2020

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 …

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