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 …
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 …
