In a recently published opinion, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) recommends to phase out all investor schemes in the EU. Until this takes effect, the EESC calls for a number of measures: (1) the guarantee that public national Read More …
Yossi Harpaz
Citizenship 2.0: Dual Nationality as a Global Asset
Princeton: Princeton University Press
2019
Floris Peters, Hans Schmeets, and Maarten Vink
Naturalisation and Immigrant Earnings: Why and to Whom Citizenship Matters
European Journal of Population
2019
On 20 October 2019, Swiss citizens elected a new National Council and voted in the first round of elections for the Council of States. While this was reported as a ‘historic election’, only 45.1 percent of the Swiss citizens went Read More …
The National Registry of Citizens (NRC) provides paths to statelessness for groups that are not preferred, by ostensibly sorting nationals from non-nationals, but in effect doing this on the basis of religion. This is why, though the idea of the NRC itself is not new, what its current avatar does to the legal and constitutional idea of citizenship is new. It seeks to identify those that cannot prove their ancestry in India and, in the first instance, disenfranchise, but in the longer run possibly deport or confine them in detention centres.
Anca Turcu and Robert Urbatsch
European Ruling Parties’ Electoral Strategies and Overseas Enfranchisement Policies
European Journal of Political Research
2019
Agustín Goenaga
Defending Popular Sovereignty: Discursive Conflict in French and Swedish Parliamentary Debates on Immigrant Voting Rights (1968-2017)
Citizenship Studies
2019
Amanda Frost
Alienating Citizens
Northwestern University Law Review
2019
The National Registry of Citizens (NRC) is a platform for divisive parochial politics, an anti-human project that reduces people into statistics and numbers. In India, the British colonials had introduced the census of people beginning from 1872. The effort was to categorise and box the colonial subjects within classificatory schemes of religions, castes, tribes, and so on. This was very confusing to the people of India. The current NRC is a further regression into undermining humanity. The individual human person disappears into an abstract NRC number and is recognisable only if she/he has that mark. It is such an unusual exchange, yet it reassures the people that this is what they want.
