In a policy statement of 7 October, the UK Minister for the Constitution, Chris Skidmore announced that the country would remove the 15-year limit on the exercise of voting rights for British citizens abroad. All British citizens would therefore receive Read More …
Opponents of commodification say that some things should not be for sale. Is citizenship one of them? Citizenship-by-investment schemes of naturalization allow investors virtually to “buy” citizenship. Revisiting objections to the older practice of selling another civic status—noble status—underscores many Read More …
Four Korean diplomats who had been posted in African, European and Middle Eastern countries were summoned back to their country in late 2015 and early 2016. Their mandates ended prematurely because their children were dual nationals. In early 2016, Korean Read More …
Most critical analyses assess citizenship deprivation policies against international human rights and domestic rule of law standards, such as prevention of statelessness, non-arbitrariness with regard to justifications and judicial remedies, or non-discrimination between different categories of citizens. This paper considers Read More …
By Julija Sardelic, Politics, September 2016
This article discusses the position and agency of Romani migrants. It argues that different states often irregularize the status of Romani migrants even in cases where it should be regularized due to their de jure citizenship. This irregularization is possible because of their position as semi-citizens in their ‘states of origin’. Yet, Romani migrants are not mere passive observers of these practices, but react to their irregularized migrant statuses. In doing so, they redefine their national and European citizenships. This article centres around two case studies to analyse the position and agency of Romani migrants The first is Roma with European Union (EU) citizenship and the second is post-Yugoslav Roma without EU citizenship.
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This report, commissioned by the Swiss Federal Council, examines and compares the political rights of expatriates in different European states. Starting from an analysis of the scope and nature of such rights, the report explores procedures for external voting. The Read More …
The United States is the only country that taxes its citizens’ worldwide income, even when those citizens live indefinitely abroad. This Article critically evaluates the traditional equity, efficiency, and administrability arguments for taxing nonresident citizens. It also raises new arguments Read More …
Given the widespread interest in political solutions to the current problems associated with immigration, we need to have an accurate understanding of existing policies in a cross-national perspective. To explain the coming into being and effectiveness of these policies, researchers Read More …
The municipal parliament in Chur, Switzerland (canton of Graubünden) has rejected a proposal from the social democratic party to introduce alien voting rights. All parties apart from the social democrats voted against the proposal. Non-citizens should get voting rights only Read More …
The Tages Anzeiger has reported that a number of foreign nationals who obtained Swiss citizenship through marriage are potentially at risk of statelessness (if their country of origin does not accept dual nationality). The Swiss citizenship through marriage can be Read More …
