In 2020 Russia passed three amendments that have simplified the naturalisation requirements for several categories of migrants. While these amendments on the surface create a more inclusive policy, they also serve specific domestic and geopolitical interests.
Paul F. Scott
Passports, the right to travel, and national security in the Commonwealth
International & Comparative Law Quarterly
2020
Qiuping Pan
Strategic noncitizenship: Mainland Chinese immigrants as noncitizens in Australia
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
2020
Sandra Mantu, Paul Minderhoud and Elspeth Guild
EU Citizenship and Free Movement Rights
Brill
2020
In South Africa an amended Citizenship Act has left some born outside of the country to a South African parent without access to citizenship. This is despite having a vested right to citizenship under previous legislation. The Constitutional Court recently heard a case seeking to confirm a High Court order to ‘read in’ to the legislation to rectify this seemingly inadvertent deprivation. But the Department of Home Affairs argues such deprivation is intentional and justified.
Concerned about the growing instrumentalisation of nationality and deterioration of the institution of citizenship, the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion presents two new resources to learn about more about the practice of citizenship stripping and relevant international standards which limit state power to do so: the World’s Stateless 2020 – Deprivation of Nationality; and the Principles on Deprivation of Nationality as a National Security Measure.
GLOBALCIT Research Associate Lorenzo Piccoli has published an analysis of the effects of COVID-19 on vulnerable populations in The Washington Post. In his piece, Piccoli explores how, despite the shared experience of mass immobility, disparities in wealth and status create Read More …
Migrant voters face four distinct options: immigrant voting, emigrant voting, dual transnational voting, and abstention.
On 30 March 2020, Eurostat published its annual statistics on the acquisition of citizenship in the European Union (EU), covering the period between 1 January and 31 December 2018. During that period, the 27 Member States granted citizenship to 672,300 Read More …
Victoria Finn
Migrant voting: here, there, in both countries, or nowhere,
Citizenship Studies
2020
