On July 5 2018, the first chamber of the Austrian Parliament, the National Council, passed a law to raise the residence requirement for naturalisation for recognised refugees from six to ten years. While the residence requirement for ordinary naturalisation in Austria is ten years, until now refugees have enjoyed Read More …
Unlike his younger brother Granit, who plays for the Swiss national team, in 2014 the Basel-born Taulant Xhaka opted to play for Albania, the country in which his parents were born. The two brothers did not play against each other at this year’s FIFA World Cup in Russia, but Granit Xhaka and the Swiss team crossed paths with several players who had previously been on the country’s youth squad. Read More …
By Open Society Justice Initiative, Human Rights in the Context of Automatic Naturalization in Crimea, 2018
The Working Paper: Cloud Communities: The Dawn of Global Citizenship? edited by Liav Orgad and Rainer Bauböck and based on a recent GLOBALCIT forum debate is now published in CADMUS.
On 11 June 2018, the Senate of Cambodia approved a controversial set of laws on citizenship, claiming the draft would improve the process by which foreigners applied for Cambodian citizenship. However, watchdogs and social media users criticised the move, saying Read More …
It is our pleasure to announce that the Report on Citizenship Law: Israel written for GLOBALCIT by Yossi Harpaz and Ben Herzog has now been published.
The U.S. government agency that oversees immigrants’ applications for naturalisation is setting up an office that will focus on identifying Americans who are suspected of cheating to get their citizenship. The cases would be referred to the Department of Justice, whose Read More …
By Arnfinn H. Midtbøen, Simon Roland Birkvad, Marta Bivand Erdal (eds.), Citizenship in the Nordic Countries: Past, Present, Future, The Nordic Council of Ministers, 2018
By Sandra Seubert, Marcel Hoogenboom, Trudie Knijn, Sybe de Vries, Frans van Waarden (eds.), Moving Beyond Barriers: Prospects for EU Citizenship, Edwar Elgar, 2018.
