Maarten Vink, Hans Schmeets, and Hester Mennes, Double standards? Attitudes towards immigrant and emigrant dual citizenship in the Netherlands, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2019
On January 11, in a 5 to 2 decision on the case Frank v. Attorney General of Canada (2019 SCC 1), Canada’s Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional federal legislation that had disenfranchised expatriate Canadians residing outside Canada for five years or more. The Read More …
Since 2008, the archives of the Conseil constitutionnel (the French constitutional court) must be disclosed after a period of twenty-five years. The centre-piece of these archives is the verbatim of the judges’ deliberation. The recent release of the deliberations of the major decision of 20 July 1993 shows new aspects about nationality law in France. Notably, some of these (no longer) secret discussions of the judges suggest that ius soli, while currently only included in ordinary law, could also become an unwritten constitutional principle. Read More …
In June 2018, the Danish government (the Liberals, the Liberal Alliance and the Conservatives) entered into a new naturalisation agreement with the Social Democrats and the Danish People’s Party. The agreement provided for a number of restrictions and introduced a Read More …
In 1967, the United States Supreme Court put an end to the U.S. government’s aggressive denaturalisation campaigns, declaring in Afroyim v. Rusk that denaturalisation for any reason other than fraud or mistake violated the U.S. Constitution. More than fifty years later, the Trump administration has resurrected denaturalisation by broadly defining fraud and mistake, as well as by seeking to remove citizenship through the civil system, under which the target has few procedural protections. Read More …
By Pierre Monforte, Leah Bassel, and Kamran Khan, Deserving citizenship? Exploring migrants’ experiences of the ‘citizenship test’ process in the United Kingdom, British Journal of Sociology, 2019
By Patrick A. Imam and Kangni R. Kpodar, Does an Inclusive Citizenship Law Promote Economic Development?, IMF Working Papers, 2019
By Kristy A. Belton, Muddy waters: citizenship and the right to vote in the Commonwealth Caribbean migratory context, Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, 2019
Brexit highlights fundamental difficulties related to EU citizenship. Our partner programme, the Global Citizenship Governance project, has launched its first online debate on the topic of EU citizenship. The various contributions from prominent scholars in the field provide different answers Read More …
On 23 January, the European Commission published its long-awaited Report on Investor Citizenship Schemes. The report is accompanied by a Commission Staff Working Document, which provides definitions of investor residence and citizenship programmes, as well as an overview of policies applicable across the 28 European Union (EU) Member States. On the basis of an empirical study of investor citizenship and residence schemes in the EU, the report calls for due regard of EU law in national citizenship policies, especially regarding the link between residence and physical presence, common standards for security checks, and enhanced oversight of intermediaries involved in acquisition of citizenship and residence by investment. Read More …
