In 2024, Benin adopted a law offering people of African descent the opportunity to acquire nationality ‘by recognition’. In this blog post, Eric Codjo Montcho Agbassa and Renaud Fiacre Avlessi discuss the context of the law, its key provisions, and legal consequences, as well as its appeal to potential applicants. Read More …
Luuk van der Baaren, Maria Gerdes, and Maarten Vink
Waves of Securitisation: The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of Citizenship Stripping Regulations in Europe, 1960–2022, ,
Statelessness & Citizenship Review,
2025.
Ingrid Ríos-Rivera, Sebastián Umpierrez de Reguero, Mariia Makarenko, Denisse Salazar, Rafaela Villao, Claudia Navarrete and Constanza Trujillo,
Between ‘Approval’ and ‘Rejection’: Non-Resident Citizens’ Vote Choice in Constitutional Plebiscites,
International Migration,
2025.
Yuliya Kosyakova, Frank van Tubergen, and Agnieszka Kana,
Determinants of Refugees’ Identification with Country of Origin and Host Country and Their Naturalization Intentions: Evidence from Germany,
Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies,
2025.
Mohsin Alam Bhat, Arushi Gupta and Shardul Gopujkar,
Unmaking Citizens: The Architecture of Rights Violations and Exclusion in India’s Citizenship Trials,
National Law School of India University & Queen Mary University of London,
2025.
This post analyses the Hungarian procedure of citizenship suspension introduced in June 2025 based on the 15th amendment of the Fundamental Law. It aims to problematise citizenship suspension as a legal instrument weaponised by an illiberal democracy and to contribute to academic debate on the securitisation of citizenship. Read More …
Kickoff contribution by David Owen and Rainer Bauböck. Comments by Jocelyn Kane and Patti Tamara Lenard, Ashley Mantha-Hollands, Timothy Jacob-Owens, Lior Erez, Peter Spiro, Christoph Sperfeldt, Alfons Aragoneses, Reinhard Schweitzer and Tina Magazzini, Nikitha Aithal, Helena Cook, Marnie Lloydd and Julija Sardelić, Melissa Blanchard, Szabolcs Pogonyi, Bronwen Manby, Jelena Džankić and rejoinder by Rainer Bauböck and David Owen
Timothy Jacob-Owens,
Foreign allegiance and constitutional citizenship: postcolonial (dis)continuities in the Commonwealth Caribbean,
Comparative Constitutional Studies,
2025.
We are delighted to announce that Timothy Raymond Anderson has been awarded the 2025 GLOBALCIT – Rainer Bauböck Essay Award on the Global State of Citizenship for his essay Civilisational Citizenship: Geopolitics and the Remaking of Belonging in Estonia. The Read More …
Gokhan Bacik,
Selling Citizenship in Turkey: Political Parties, Pragmatism, and Polarization,
Nationalism and Ethnic Politics,
2025.
