The content of citizenship laws can be politically controversial in any country. African states, whose borders were, for the most part, arbitrarily created at the stroke of a pen in Berlin in 1885, have particular challenges. The 1964 decision of the newly formed Organisation of African Unity to respect those borders committed the continent to the task of moulding the colonial units into legitimate political communities. Read More …
By Joachim Blatter, Martina Sochin D’Elia, Michael Buess, Bürgerschaft und Demokratie in Zeiten transnationaler Migration: Hintergründe, Chancen und Risiken der Doppelbürgerschaft, Schweizerische Eidgenössische Migrationskommission, 2018
By Guido Tintori, Ius soli the Italian way. The long and winding road to reform the citizenship law, Contemporary Italian Politics, 2018
On 12 December, the Hungarian Parliament voted into law the amendments to the Act CXIII of 2003 on the Election of Members of the European Parliament tabled by the governing party in October (see GLOBALCIT News, 23 October 2018). The Read More …
GLOBALCIT has now published five new reports on political participation of mobile EU citizens. Reports on political participation of mobile EU citizens in Estonia, Spain, Latvia, Finland and the Netherlands can be accessed through CADMUS, and our publications section.
Special Issue, Nationality and International Law, Netherlands International Law Review, 2018
By Bronwen Manby, Citizenship in Africa. The Law of Belonging, Hart Publishing, 2018
On Sunday 25th November 2018, the European Council gave its political blessing to the draft of the Withdrawal Agreement whereby the United Kingdom will leave the European Union. From the outset of negotiations, the European Council identified protecting the rights of UK nationals in EU Member States and EU nationals in the United Kingdom as a priority in its guidelines. These efforts have culminated in Part II of the Agreement. This post will provide a brief overview of the substance of these provisions, and the mechanisms that have been established to ensure their enforcement. Read More …
This week, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton announced the federal government’s intention to introduce changes to Australia’s citizenship-stripping laws. The proposed changes would likely make Australia’s regime for citizenship-stripping the most expansive in the world. I’ll outline how the proposal would change the current law, and analyse its key elements. Read More …
