We are delighted to announce the launch of the Webinars page on our website, which brings together the recordings of our 2020-21 series of webinars. The recordings are made available as study and teaching material on topical issues in citizenship studies.
On 8 October 2020, Jo Shaw presented her new book, The People in Question, at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. Together with other distinguished scholars she explored the interaction between constitutions and citizenship and their nexus with to stories of peoplehood, collective identities, and borders and boundaries.
Florian Bieber and Roland Bieber
Negotiating Unity and Diversity in the European Union
Palgrave Macmillan
2020
Gijsbert Oonk
Sport and nationality: towards thick and thin forms of citizenship
National Identities
2020
Robtel Neajaj Pailey
Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa
Cambridge University Press
2021
According to Erm News and Citizenship Rights in Africa Initiative, the transitional government of Sudan has stripped thousands of naturalised foreigners, including Syrians.
Overseas US voters might make a difference, not only in the 2020 presidential race, but in at least one close Senatorial race. They vote in 50 different states, not voting in one single constituency but may, even so, tip close elections.
This contribution discusses the infringement proceedings launched by the European Commission against Malta and Cyprus regarding their investor citizenship programmes. It critically discusses the arguments of the Commission that these programmes are incompatible with EU law, and in particular the essence of EU citizenship and the principle of sincere cooperation.
In Liechtenstein, a referendum on dual citizenship took place on 30 August 2020, together with the popular vote on questions of gender parity in parliamentary representation, and the railway connection. Dual nationality was rejected by 61.5% of the voters, while 38.5% voted in favor of it.
Mohammad Morad and Devi Sacchetto
For the Future of the Children? The Onward Migration of Italian Bangladeshis in Europe
International Migration
2020
