Discrimination in migration and citizenship
Antje Ellerman (Editor)
Discrimination in migration and citizenship
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
2020
The UNHCR Guidelines on Statelessness No.5: Loss and Deprivation of Nationality
In May 2020, UNHCR released its long-awaited Guidelines on Statelessness No.5: Loss and Deprivation of Nationality under Articles 5-9 of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. The new Guidelines represent the official UNHCR position on the obligations of states to avoid statelessness as they deprive a person of nationality (by executive act) or provide for its loss (automatic, if certain conditions are fulfilled).
Reparations for injustice: the German Constitutional Court Decides on Generous Access to Citizenship
A chamber of the German Constitutional Court decided a case concerned with access to German citizenship for a descendant of a Jewish German who had been stripped of his German citizenship by the Nazis. The chamber decision finds that a long established, narrow naturalisation practice vis-à-vis the offspring of those who have been robbed their German nationality by the Nazis is unconstitutional.
Austria: Estonian citizen becomes stateless after retraction of an assurance of naturalisation
A European Union citizen by birth and nationality has found herself stateless at the request of the Republic of Austria.
CJEU asked to rule on acquisition of nationality in light of EU citizenship: The fundamental status on the horizon?
The case C-118/20 JY v. Wiener Landesregierung, concerning the revocation of a guarantee of the grant of Austrian nationality, is more than a case on loss of EU citizenship. It is the first case where the CJEU will have to rule on the acquisition of EU citizenship.
How far do citizenship laws in European Union Member States safeguard the children born there from statelessness?
Our new study shows that, as of January 2020, all but two of the 28 Member States grant citizenship to children born in the State who would otherwise be stateless, and that such provision has expanded slightly. Yet only eleven Member States grant such children citizenship unconditionally and automatically.
Statelessness and Contemporary Enslavement
Jane Anna Gordon
Statelessness and Contemporary Enslavement
Routledge
2020
Migration, Diaspora and Citizenship: A Qualitative Study of the Perceptions of Pakistani Nationals towards the Political Rights of Pakistani Dual Citizens
Ayesha Masood Chaudhry and Muhammad Bilal
Migration, Diaspora and Citizenship: A Qualitative Study of the Perceptions of Pakistani Nationals towards the Political Rights of Pakistani Dual Citizens
International Migration
2020
Solidarity Reasoning and Citizenship Agendas: From Socialist Yugoslavia to Neoliberal Serbia
Jelena Vasiljević
Solidarity Reasoning and Citizenship Agendas: From Socialist Yugoslavia to Neoliberal Serbia
East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures
2020
How COVID-19 will transform the market in investment migration
When it comes to investment migration, the pandemic has underscored the key differences between citizenship by investment and residence by investment, so often treated together – even conflated – in the literature, as well as the distinction between citizenship and mere passports. It also raises questions about how supply and demand will transform in this unusual market. What does the pandemic mean for millionaire mobility through investment migration?