Citizenship in Africa. The Law of Belonging
By Bronwen Manby, Citizenship in Africa. The Law of Belonging, Hart Publishing, 2018
Citizens’ Rights in the UK-EU Withdrawal Agreement: Ossifying EU citizenship as a juridical status?
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 …
In Australia, the latest citizenship-stripping plan risks statelessness, indefinite detention and constitutional challenge
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 …
Six new reports on political participation of mobile EU citizens
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 …
Precarious citizenship: cases of the UK and the US
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 …
Delmi-GLOBALCIT Policy Brief “How Citizenship Laws Differ: A Global Comparison”
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 …
Good practices in nationality laws for the prevention and reduction of statelessness
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
Inclusion or conflicts of loyalty? 15 years of dual citizenship in Finland
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 authorities investigate fraudulent sales of citizenship
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 …