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 …
Just as our Observatory reaches its tenth anniversary, we are proud of both the quantity and the quality of the research that has been produced, first by EUDO CITIZENSHIP and since 2017 by the GLOBALCIT network. Over the years, we Read More …
The GLOBALCIT team is happy to announce that the new version of the GLOBALCIT Conditions for Electoral Rights 2019 (CER 2019) is now live. The database has been updated by Alina Ostling and Lorenzo Piccoli on the basis of reports Read More …
Aatish Taseer, a British Indian journalist and author, who has been critical of Narendra Modi’s regime has been stripped of his overseas citizenship of India (OCI). Introduced in 2005, the OCI is an immigration status of an unlimited duration that Read More …
The GLOBALCIT team wishes to congratulate Jean-Thomas Arrighi for starting a new job as Senior Lecturer in Comparative Migration History at the University of Neuchâtel. Jean-Thomas worked as coordinator of our observatory between 2012 and 2015, before handing his tasks Read More …
In a recently published opinion, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) recommends to phase out all investor schemes in the EU. Until this takes effect, the EESC calls for a number of measures: (1) the guarantee that public national Read More …
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 …
