Last week, the US Justice Department announced the creation of a “Denaturalisation Section”, which will focus on stripping US citizenship status of those it believes had acquired it fraudulently. However, this choice contributes to the undermining of the post-World War 2 consensus that the right to citizenship is a basic human right.
Rutger Birnie and Rainer Bauböck (editors)
The Power to Expel: Deportation and Denationalisation in Historical, Legal and Normative Perspective
Citizenship Studies
2020
On 21 February, the Scottish Parliament approved the Scottish Elections (Franchise and Representation) Bill that extends the franchise in Scottish parliamentary (Holyrood) and local government elections in two significant ways.
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) recently released its first global report on the state of national migration governance. The report, Migration Governance Indicators: A Global Perspective, provides a global overview on migration governance based on data collected and analysed Read More …
Martijn van den Brink
A Qualified Defence of the Primacy of Nationality of European Union Citizenship
International & Comparative Law Quarterly
2020
Heli Askola
Copying Europe? Integration as a Citizenship Requirement in Australia
International Migration Review
2020
The Colombian Constitutional Court took an important decision in the context of the current migratory movement triggered by the crisis in Venezuela. This judgment could become a benchmark for the fight against statelessness.
The Raad van State (Council of State of the Netherlands, sitting as Supreme Administrative Court of the Netherlands) decided how the Netherlands authorities have to deal with the cases which gave rise to the preliminary ruling procedure decided by Court of Justice of the European Union in Tjebbes and Others.
The Australian High Court was called to decide whether Aboriginal Australians, born overseas, without the statutory status of Australian citizenship and owing foreign allegiance (ie possessing a foreign citizenship), were ‘aliens’ within the meaning of s 51(xix) of the Australian Constitution. If they were, then they could be deported under the relevant provisions of the Migration Act 1958.
