Italian Camera approves of a draft law facilitating citizenship acquisition by children of long-term resident third country nationals

Posted onOctober 22, 2015July 28, 2017

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).

Conceptualizing and Measuring Citizenship and Integration Policy Past Lessons and New Approaches

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 …

On Irelands disenfranchised expat voters, read the article by Naomi Powell in the Wall Street Journal

Posted onOctober 16, 2015

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 …

Prisoner voting: now a matter of EU law

Posted onOctober 16, 2015April 21, 2023

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.

UK High Court rules on the hurdles faced by a British citizen by descent trying to secure a UK passport

Posted onOctober 15, 2015July 28, 2017

On 15 October 2015, the High Court ruled on the case of R(Bondada) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2015] EWHC 2661 (Admin). The Court examined the hurdles faced by a British citizen by descent trying to secure Read More …

Migration, Citizenship and Post National Membership

This chapter explores how international migration has reconceptualised the notion of membership, in that the demos nowadays is no longer confined to the territorial borders of nation-states. Rather, it stretches beyond them, through a cobweb of transnational networks created by Read More …

The ‘Brexit’ Referendum: We Need to Talk about the (General Election) Franchise

Posted onOctober 8, 2015April 21, 2023

In its 27 May 2015 Queen’s speech, the Conservative government announced that ‘early legislation will be introduced to provide for an in/out referendum’. The following day, it introduced the European Union Referendum Bill, which passed its third reading in the House of Commons on 7 September 2015 (by 316 votes to 53).

The right to belong: an overview of historical and recent developments in Indian citizenship laws

This article discusses the significance of the terms Non-Resident Indian (NRI), Person of Indian Origin (PIO), and Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) in respect of contemporary discourse on their status, including whether they constitute a type of dual nationality. Publication Read More …

Greece: New bill reintroducing citizenship by declaration for children born or raised in Greece enters into force

Posted onOctober 1, 2015July 28, 2017

On 9 July, the Greek Parliament has adopted the bill reintroducing citizenship by declaration for children born or raised in Greece. The revised law entered into force at the date of the publication of the law in the Official Gazette, Read More …

Naturalization fosters the long-term political integration of immigrants

Posted onSeptember 29, 2015July 28, 2017

Basing their study on a natural experiment in Switzerland, Jens Hainmueller, Dominik Hangartner, and Giuseppe Pietrantuono show that for the immigrants who faced close referendums, naturalization considerably improved their political integration, including increases in formal political participation, political knowledge, and Read More …

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