Elif Naz Kayran and Merve Erdilmen
When do states give voting rights to non-citizens? The role of population, policy, and politics on the timing of enfranchisement reforms in liberal democracies
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
2020
Thanh D. Nguyen
A citizen by any other name: Postcolonial cop out in Section 4, Article XIX of Vietnam’s Law on Nationality
Georgetown Immigration Law Journal
2020
Antje Ellerman (Editor)
Discrimination in migration and citizenship
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
2020
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).
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.
A European Union citizen by birth and nationality has found herself stateless at the request of the Republic of Austria.
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.
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.
Jane Anna Gordon
Statelessness and Contemporary Enslavement
Routledge
2020
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
