On Monday, the German Constitutional Court has decided that mentally or psychologically impaired citizens who have a legal custodian will have the right to vote in the next elections for the European Parliament in May. The Court had ruled as Read More …
As the number of returning foreign fighters increases after the downfall of the Islamic State (IS), the practice of an increasing number of European states to deprive these persons of their citizenship and their right to return continues to be the subject of public discourse and scholarly debate. In the Netherlands, where those who join certain terrorist organisations abroad can lose their citizenship since the enactment of the necessary legislation in March 2017, the practice remains controversial. Read More …
Saara Koikkalainen, Intra-European Migrants and the Question of Integration: Citizenship In The Lives Of Finnish Migrants In Europe, Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 2019
Liav Orgad and Jules Lepoutre (editors), Should EU Citizenship Be Disentangled from Member State Nationality?, EUI RSCAS Working Papers, 2019
Michael J. Sullivan, Earned Citizenship, Oxford University Press, 2019
Angela Paparusso, Immigrant Citizenship Status in Europe: the Role of Individual Characteristics and National Policies, Genus Journal of Population Sciences, 2019
Donna Swarthout (editor), A Place They Called Home: Reclaiming Citizenship. Stories of a New Jewish Return to Germany, Berlinica Publishing, 2018
GLOBALCIT Working Paper: Let me vote in your country, and I’ll let you vote in mine. A proposal for transnational democracy edited by Joachim Blatter and Rainer Bauböck is now published in the EUI’s open access repository CADMUS. The Working Read More …
The electoral franchise has become more universal as restrictions based on criteria such as sex or property have been lifted throughout the process of democratisation. Yet, a broad range of exclusions has persisted to this date, making the suffrage non-universal, even in established democracies. In this article, we present ELECLAW, a new set of indicators that captures the subtle and variegated legal landscape of persisting electoral rights restrictions. Read More …
