Short of full deglobalisation and sustained lockdown, citizenship is likely to remain a valuable asset at the same time that states are unlikely to see serious new costs in pre-COVID citizenship practices. The pandemic is unlikely to reverse a long progression towards state acceptance of and individual interests in dual citizenship.
In his GLOBALCIT Working Paper Citizenship loss and deprivation in the European Union (27 + 1), Jules Lepoutre argues that citizenship legislations of the Member States of the European Union are the result of common principles, shared influences and various constitutional Read More …
GLOBALCIT has invited three scholars to comment on the implications of the Israeli government’s plans to formally annex parts of the Occupied Palestinian Territories in the West Bank. Ariel Zemach argues in his lead piece that Israel is bound by Read More …
It is our pleasure to announce that GLOBALCIT has now published Jo Shaw‘s Working Paper Citizenship: contrasting dynamics at the interface of integration and constitutionalism. The paper explores the complex tapestry of citizenship in the European Union context, and examines Read More …
Given current political realities and Israel’s emphasis on having a Jewish majority, any obligation to grant citizenship to Palestinians in the West Bank will be ignored. Furthermore, given the stratification of Israeli citizenship, grant of citizenship that does not guarantee equality will not satisfy the right to self-determination of Palestinians.
Ariel Zemach suggests that Israel is required, under IHRL, to grant citizenship to residents of territories of the West Bank that were annexed to Israel. I would like to highlight three difficulties that arise from this argument: its contribution to the entrenchment of the settlements as a permanent reality, its dire implications for self-determination, in the substantive sense, of the Palestinian people, and its presumption that the granting of citizenship would result in adhering to IHRL obligations, in particular with respect to equality, towards Palestinian citizens of Israel.
Amal Jamal and Anna Kensicki
Theorizing half-statelessness: a case study of the Nation-State Law in Israel
Citizenship Studies
2020
Arnfinn H. Midtbøen et al.
Assessments of citizenship criteria: are immigrants more liberal?
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
2020
The legal significance of the right of the Jewish people to self-determination justifies allowing Israel a reasonable time period to secure its Jewish character in a manner that is consistent with the emerging right to citizenship and its application to cases of annexation.
