A number of countries in Africa practice the exchange between cash and passports. These passports are commonly used to avoid extradition, as countries are not obliged to surrender their own nationals. Le Monde writes that the Chinese government is looking Read More …
This article analyses the process whereby ‘natural’ citizens of one country mobilize their resources so that their children receive by birthright, the citizenship of a rich liberal democracy. Utilizing the case of Turkish upper classes, who give birth in the Read More …
Traditionally, immigrants’ propensity to naturalize is attributed to individual characteristics and the origin country. Recently scholars increasingly recognise that naturalisation decisions do not take place in a vacuum: they are conditioned both by the individual life course of immigrants, such Read More …
This article uses the lenses of citizenship to examine the uneven distribution of voting rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). While recognizing the significance of power-sharing in BiH, the article argues that the key obstacle to modifying the politics of Read More …
On 28 October, the Regulator of the Individual Investor Programme in Malta confirmed that a pecuniary contribution of €650,000, a property lease or purchase agreement and the holding of a maximum investment – among other obligations – suffice to prove Read More …
On 22 October, the United Kingdom (UK) parliament adopted a statutory instrument terminating the possibility for EEA nationals and their family members with permanent residence in the UK to apply directly for British citizenship. Once the new legislation takes effect, Read More …
On 13 October 2015, the Italian lower parliamentary chamber approved a draft law facilitating citizenship acquisition by children of long-term resident third country nationals. If passed by the upper legislative chamber, the law ill facilitate the acquisition of Italian citizenship both for children born in Italy to parents in possession of an EU long term residence permit, and for children who arrived in Italy before the age of twelve, have resided in Italy for at least five years, and completed school in this country.
Read the analysis of Giovanna Zincone, EUDO citizenship expert in La Stampa (in Italian).
Research on immigration and citizenship has become one of the fastest growing areas in political science, with one trend being the boon of comparative citizenship and immigration policy indices. This article discusses methodological concerns with this enterprise. The first half Read More …
In her WSJ blog published on 16 October 2015, Naomi Powell referred to European Union Democracy Observatory on Citizenship (EUDO) research on electoral rights to explore how countries include or exclude expatriates from electoral processes in the mobile and interconnected Read More …
Article 39(2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights provides:
‘Members of the European Parliament shall be elected by direct universal suffrage in a free and secret ballot.’
In its brief and rather low key judgment in Delvigne (Case C-650/13; ECLI:EU:C:2015:648), which was handed down on 6 October 2015, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice has put flesh on the bones of this provision.
