On 23 January, the French Constitutional Court issued a much awaited ruling on the deprivation of citizenship of a person convicted on terrorism charges. More specifically, the Court reviewed whether the rule according to which a person who has Read More …
On Wednesday 28 January 2015, the Estonian Parliament passed several amendments to the Nationality Act simplifying naturalisation procedures for several categories of applicants. Read the news report on Postimees (in English).
by Laura Block A new law reforming the so-called „option duty“came into force on 20 December 2014. From now on, most ius soli children, provided they have lived in Germany for eight years, have attended school there for six Read More …
Spain is coming to the end of its first wave of mass international migration, with Latin Americans being clearly predominant during this unprecedented period of immigration. During the 2000 s, various incentives and strategies including bilateral labor agreements between Spain Read More …
Malta’s Individual Investor Programme (IIP) has received over 400 applications since its launch early last year, which will result in over €450 million in Foreign Direct Investment, Henley and Partners said in a statement. According to Malta Today, 54% of Read More …
Voters from Commonwealth countries and Ireland can register to vote. Using census data we can see where in England and Wales they most influence the electoral outcome. Read the news report in the Guardian.
From the viewpoint of the state, a person is either a citizen or a foreigner. National citizenship laws divide people into citizens and foreigners. But citizenship laws also differentiate between categories of citizens and foreigners by granting certain foreigners (super-foreigners) Read More …
What does it mean to be Spanish? In the absence of a formalised citizenship test, applicants are vetted and asked a series of questions by a judge, who then decides if they qualify. Read the news report in El Read More …
A special issue of Ethnopolitics has just been published which features the work of members of the CITSEE team. The Europeanisation of Citizenship in the Successor States of the Former Yugoslavia (CITSEE) was a study of the citizenship regimes of Read More …
At least two cases of children conceived artificially and born overseas have challenged Canada’s hereditary citizenship laws, which stipulate that a child must be genetically related to at least one parent to be considered Canadian. Read the news report in Read More …
