GLOBALCIT welcomes three new RAs

Posted onSeptember 20, 2019September 23, 2019

GLOBALCIT welcomes three new Research Associates. In 2019, Ashley Mantha-Hollands, Luuk van der Baren and Merve Erdilmen will work on the EU-CITZEN project. EU-CITZEN is an academic network providing the European Commission with the best independent scholarly knowledge and advice on Read More …

First case of citizenship revocation in Switzerland

Posted onSeptember 19, 2019September 19, 2019

On September 11, the Swiss government has revoked the nationality of a man previously convicted for terrorist activities and linkages to the organisation Al-Nusra in the canton of Ticino and in the north of Italy. The denationalised Swiss citizen was also a Turkish Read More …

A New Dawn? Statelessness and Assam

Regina Menachery Paulose
A New Dawn? Statelessness and Assam
Groningen Journal of International Law
2019

Challenging European Citizenship. Ideas and Realities in Contrast

Agustín José Menéndez and Espen D. H.Olsen
Challenging European Citizenship. Ideas and Realities in Contrast
Palgrave Macmillan
2019

EU27 citizens must keep their voting rights in local government elections

Posted onSeptember 4, 2019April 21, 2023

The Withdrawal Agreement does not guarantee the maintenance of existing local government electoral rights for those covered by its remit, let alone suggest a framework for such rights to accrue for other EU27 citizens and UK citizens were the UK to leave the EU. This, in turn, has led the government to reach agreements with Spain, Portugal and Luxembourg on preserving reciprocal voting rights in local government elections.

Citizenship Beyond Nationality. Immigrants’ Voting Rights Across the World

Luicy Pedroza
Citizenship Beyond Nationality. Immigrants’ Voting Rights Across the World
Penn University Press
2019

‘Jihadi Jack’ and the folly of revoking citizenship

Posted onAugust 21, 2019April 21, 2023

Imagine this scenario: Jack Letts, ISIS foreign fighter, is a citizen of the U.K. and of Canada. Neither country wants to claim him. Each has the possibility of revoking his citizenship as long as Letts is not rendered stateless. The result is an arbitrary race to see which country could strip his citizenship first. To the loser goes the citizen — maybe Canada, maybe the U.K.