£1,012 child citizenship fee confirmed unlawful by Court of Appeal
Upholding an earlier High Court decision, the Court of Appeal has confirmed that the Home Office’s £1,012 fee for registering children as British citizens is unlawful.
Alien in one’s own country?
The Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR) recently published a report based on a study on access to Danish citizenship for children and young persons who are born and/or raised in Denmark. The report recommends Danish law to be amended with a view to provide for facilitated access to Danish citizenship for 1.5, second and third generation of immigrant descent.
Citizenship and Statelessness in the Member States of the Southern African Development Community
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Citizenship and Statelessness in the Member States of the Southern African Development Community, report authored by Bronwen Manby
2020
Who May Represent the Country? Football, Citizenship, Migration, and National Identity at the FIFA World Cup
Gijsbert Oonk
Who May Represent the Country? Football, Citizenship, Migration, and National Identity at the FIFA World Cup
The International Journal of the History of Sport
2021
The duty to naturalise refugees
Rebecca Buxton
The duty to naturalise refugees
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy
2021
Blocked access to citizenship: home, foreign home
Early in the morning of 28 January, heavily armed police escorted four children of rejected asylum seekers (three minor girls and a boy) to the airport from where they were deported to Georgia and Armenia. The incident caused widespread protests because the children had been living and attending school in Austria for many years and were considered well integrated. The social democratic governor of Carinthia, Peter Kaiser, and others called for a debate on ius soli, the attribution of citizenship by birth in the territory.
Moldova Repeals its Short-lived but Controversial Citizenship by Investment Scheme
In 2016, Moldova joined a growing group of countries offering citizenship by investment (CBI) schemes. However, in 2020, the parliament repealed the amendments to Moldova’s citizenship law that permitted CBI, the same year that Cyprus also repealed its CBI scheme. Why was Moldova’s foray into CBI so short-lived?
Webinar: Citizenship, Inequality and Justice
Our next webinar gathers four speakers in roundtable discussions on the equality paradox at the heart of citizenship.
Pragmatic Trans-Border Nationalism: A Comparative Analysis of Poland’s and Hungary’s Policies Towards Kin-Minorities in the Twenty-First Century
Magdalena Lesińska and Dominik Héjj
Pragmatic Trans-Border Nationalism: A Comparative Analysis of Poland’s and Hungary’s Policies Towards Kin-Minorities in the Twenty-First Century
Ethnopolitics
2021