According to the US Treasury department, a total of 5,411 people renounced their American citizenship in 2016, including the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson. This is a record number of nationality renunciations in the US, and is 26% higher Read More …
The President of Finland Sauli Niinistö proposed that the country reconsidered its dual citizenship policy introduced in 2003. The President maintains that the situation has changed since the introduction of the policy, originally aimed at integrating the Finns returning from Read More …
Citizenship is often assumed to be a clear-cut issue—either one has it or one does not. However, as the contributors to Citizenship in Question demonstrate, citizenship is not self-evident; it emerges from often obscure written records and is interpreted through Read More …
The chapter provides an empirically grounded theory of how citizenship policies in migrants’ country of origin influence immigrants’ political activities, ethnic interest groups, and ethnic lobbying. Based on the study of India’s citizenship-like diaspora membership status, the Overseas Citizenship of Read More …
On 12 February 2017, the Swiss electorate will be called to the polls to vote in a referendum on a legislation aiming at facilitating access to citizenship for so-called ‘third generation’ foreign youth, that is the grandsons and granddaughters of Read More …
Political scientists have written an open letter in which they reject Donald Trump’s claim that millions of non-citizens voted in the November 2016 presidential elections. To support the claim, the U.S. President has cited a 2014 article by Jesse Richman, Read More …
Voting Rights of Refugees develops a novel legal argument about the voting rights of refugees recognised in the 1951 Geneva Convention. The main normative contention is that such refugees should have the right to vote in the political community where Read More …
The European Commission has published its third EU Citizenship Report, focusing on the progress in the exercise of EU citizenship rights since 2014 and presenting actions aimed at enhancing citizens’ awareness on how to fully enjoy these rights. The report Read More …
The Prime Minister of Estonia Jüri Ratas stated that his proposal to grant citizenship to those who lived in the country for more than 25 years does not not introduce a “zero option” for citizenship. He added that applicants would Read More …
Since the Brexit vote, many British citizens have sought citizenship in other EU member states – notably Ireland – on the basis of ancestry or other provisions, often without any intention of living there. Should we welcome this development? Or is it problematic that people can claim citizenship on the basis of ancestry, especially if large numbers do so? Iseult Honohan argues that while extending the right to citizenship down multiple generations is a questionable step, problems will only really arise if citizens who have never lived in the country are given equal voting power.
