GLOBALCIT has now published six new reports on political participation of mobile EU citizens. Reports on Belgium, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Ireland and Italy as well as the FAIREU key country report : electoral participation in Sweden can be accessed Read More …
We often think about citizenship as an inalienable status. Yet the cases of deprivation of citizenship in the US and the UK reveal that even birthright citizenship can be revoked in certain cases; even if it would lead to statelessness. Read More …
In the Delmi-GLOBALCIT Policy Brief entitled How Citizenship Laws Differ: A Global Comparison (2018:9), Rainer Bauböck (European University Institute), Maarten Vink (Maastricht University) and Iseult Honohan (University College Dublin) analyse the inclusiveness of provisions in citizenship laws in 175 states. They measure how much Read More …
By United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Good practices in nationality laws for the prevention and reduction of statelessness, Handbook for Parliamentarians N° 29, 2018
Finland accepted multiple citizenship with a broad consensus across the political parties in 2003. However, it was not until the autumn of 2014 that the issue of dual citizenship reached public consciousness when President of the Republic highlighted the need for a comparative review of multiple citizenship and its conditions in different countries. This request came around the same time as Russia introduced new legislation on the compulsory registration of foreign citizenships and the Ukraine crisis had intensified in the spring and summer of 2014. Read More …
Bulgarian prosecutors are investigating a fraudulent scheme which has enabled thousands of foreigners to obtain Bulgarian passports by corrupting state officials. The scheme allegedly involved employees of the State Agency for Bulgarians Abroad who are suspected of having accepted bribes of up Read More …
On 30 October the US President Donald J. Trump gave an interview claiming that “We’re the only country in the world where a person comes in and has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United Read More …
On October 7, 3.3 million voters received an unwelcome surprise on Election Day in Brazil. They were, in fact, no longer voters. Roughly half of the country’s municipalities had moved to compulsory biometric identification for this election, which required voters to go to the Electoral Court in their region and register their fingerprints.
Voter registration was a big flashpoint in the U.S., possibly affecting the turnout of certain segments of the population disproportionately. Might it have had an effect on the Brazilian election as well? After all, any possible effect would not have been captured by polls, since voters with cancelled registration would likely have not known and responded to polls as likely voters. This would mean that our pre-electoral predictions would have been off-base if there truly was an influence. Read More …
