The Indian state of Assam is updating for the first time in its history the National Register of Citizens (NRC), which was created in 1951 to determine who was born in the state and is Indian, and who might be Read More …
Anastasia Gorodzeisky and Inna Leykin
When Borders Migrate: Reconstructing the Category of ‘International Migrant’
Sociology
2019
On July 7 the High Court of Ireland delivered a judgment that significantly alters the rules for ordinary naturalisation applicants. The judgment could affect thousands of people applying for Irish citizenship on the basis of residence in the country. The Read More …
In June 2019 the German legislator has passed a number of significant changes to German citizenship law. According to Section 28 of the German Nationality Act, a German citizen loses his or her nationality if he or she has been Read More …
Moritz Baumgärtel and Barbara Oomen, Pulling human rights back in? local authorities, international law and the reception of undocumented migrants, The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 2019
Nationality swapping is nowadays common in professional sports. An ever-increasing number of professional athletes hold at least one functional sporting nationality’ on top of the one acquired by birth. This permits them to compete for the country that offers them better reputational or financial prospects. During the men’s World Cup in France in 2018, we estimated that 26.79 per cent of the players (198 of 739) had dual citizenship. When repeating the same exercise for this year’s Women’s World Cup we found that only 6.88 per cent of the players (38 of 552) possessed more than one passport. We argue that this trend is a symptom of the interplay of gender inequalities inherent in sports industries and the male-dominated cultural symbolism of sports in national contexts.
Introduction and response by Ana Tanasoca; comments by Sandra Seubert, Rainer Bauböck, Ashley Mantha-Hollands and Jo Shaw Read More …
Samantha Besson, Investment Citizenship and Democracy in a Global Age. Towards a Democratic Interpretation of International Nationality Law, Fribourg International Law Research Papers, 2019
Four reasons might be anticipated. First, there is some historical continuity since naturalisation has always been a path followed by very few in the region (Acosta 2018). Second, the need to renounce the previous nationality, at least on paper, in countries like Mexico, could act as a deterrent. Third, immigration rates have been quite low in Latin America since the large immigrations of the early 20th Century. Fourth, most current immigration is of regional origin and regional integration processes such as MERCOSUR, the Andean Community but also the Central American System of Integration (SICA in its Spanish acronym), have facilitated mobility, residence and access to rights for regional migrants thus possibly limiting incentives to naturalise.
