Citizenship in the News 📰🇯🇵 Japan to tighten requirements for naturalization starting April 1: Japan will double the residency requirement for foreign nationals seeking citizenship, changes announced less than a week before taking effect www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03...

Congrats! The e-version of your book made it to our library catalogue in Florence, so our whole @globalcit.bsky.social group @eui-eu.bsky.social has access to it. Looking forward to reading it and learning from your great work.

Thanks for having me over in Brussels, @ecas-europe.bsky.social for this engaging discussion on developments in citizenship acquisition and nationality law across the EU, drawing on our data and research from @globalcit.bsky.social. @eui-schuman.bsky.social @eui-ggp.bsky.social

Italy’s Constitutional Court Upholds Caps on Citizenship by Descent www.imidaily.com/europe/italy...

Citizenship in the News 📰🇷🇸🇷🇺 Serbia Begins Issuing Passports to Russians Left Stateless After Renouncing Citizenship: These individuals had been stuck in a legal "gray zone" for several years, living without official documents or a clear legal status united24media.com/latest-news/...

Join us today in-person at Schifanoia ☀️ Lunch will follow the seminar 🍴🍝

Watch the @globalcit.bsky.social webinar from a few weeks ago with @chidiodinkalu.bsky.social Ibrahima Kane, Thandeka Chauke, Christy Chitengu & myself discussing the protocol to the #ACHPR on the specific aspects of the right to a nationality and the eradication of #statelessness in Africa

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Join this month's GLOBALCIT Seminar ✨ Our GLOBALCIT Coordinator @ashleymhollands.bsky.social will present: Sex-disaggregated citizenship statistics: data gaps and why these matter 📊♀️⚖️ 📆 March 19 ⏰ 12:00 - 13:00 CET 📍 Sala Triaria, Villa Schifanoia Register 🔗 www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

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Citizenship in the News 📰🇩🇰 Most citizenship applications put on hold during elections: The ministry said it will generally not process applications for Danish citizenship until after the election, when the conditions for naturalization cases are clarified cphpost.dk/2026-03-09/l...

@globalcit.bsky.social report summarising recent citizenship law developments in 12 Eastern European EU member & candidate states shows how citizenship policy is increasingly shaped by security concerns, particularly in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine hdl.handle.net/1814/94610

Complaint filed with the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights in relation to three men originally from Jamaica, Yemen and Cuba deported to Eswatini from the US www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

New JEMS Special Issue: Citizenship in the Global Struggles for Democracy edited by @jdzankic.bsky.social Eleanor Knott & Szabolcs Pogonyi - articles on Abkhazia, Taiwan, Kenya & Tanzania, Kosovo & Albania, Kuwait, India, Moldova, Hungary, and Serbia & Montenegro www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjms20/0/0

Looking for some writing inspiration for March? 🤔 Make sure to submit your entry for the 2026 Rainer Bauböck Essay Award ❗ Full details below 👇

Submit your essay by 31 March 2026 for the @globalcit.bsky.social – Rainer Bauböck Essay Award. This award is sponsored by the funds of the City of Vienna 2023 Prize in Humanities and Social Sciences awarded to Rainer Bauböck for his work on citizenship and democratic theory.

Looking for some writing inspiration for March? 🤔 Make sure to submit your entry for the 2026 Rainer Bauböck Essay Award ❗ Full details below 👇

Still a few gaps to fill but slowly but steadily we’re covering the whole 🌍 @globalcit.bsky.social with detailed country reports on the history and current state of citizenship law. 💪

❗Open Access Country Reports ❗ Explore the history of citizenship, modes of acquisition and loss, and current debates and reform plans regarding citizenship policy 💭 🇰🇼 Report on citizenship law: Kuwait 🔗 tinyurl.com/57jwp2jh 🇨🇻 Report on citizenship law: Cabo Verde 🔗 tinyurl.com/bdhv47kp

📣 New Publication Alert ❗ The State of Citizenship in a Wider Europe: Towards Convergence❓ By @maartenpvink.bsky.social, Dorota Pudzianowska and Szabolcs Pogonyi ✍️ Available Open Access on Cadmus 🔗 tinyurl.com/579y3asw

@berryadrianc.bsky.social forensic analysis of the UK’s “earned citizenship“ proposals - moving naturalisation from a largely administrative process to a much more discretionary system, with longer residence and further conditions nationalityandcitizenshiplaw.com/2025/06/23/e...

Citizenship in the News 📰🇸🇪 Sweden to raise hurdles to gaining citizenship: Starting in June, Sweden will require that people have lived in the country for 8 years, earn a modest income and pass a test to gain citizenship www.dw.com/en/sweden-to...

Seminar: Emigrant voting rights: a question of national belonging ❓ Join Elizabeth Iams Wellman (University of Memphis) to examine the initial legal extension of voting rights to citizens abroad in sub-Saharan Africa 🌍 🗓 19 Feb ⏰ 17:00–18:00 CET 💻 Online Registration 🔗 tinyurl.com/5anybrcs

Happening today ❗️ You can still register with the link below 👇

🚨 Last days to apply 👇

📚 New literature on citizenship and statelessness 🔍 Global statelessness and the limits of the “eradication” framing ⚖️ Discretion, bureaucracy, and law in naturalization processes 🗳️ Citizenship, language, and political knowledge And more in our database 🔗 globalcit.eu/category/cit...

Webinar Alert ❗ Africa’s new treaty on statelessness and the right to a nationality: How to make it work? Two years after adoption, this webinar examines the AU Protocol on the Right to a Nationality and the Eradication of Statelessness ⚖️ 📅 Feb 4th 17:00 - 18:00 CET Register: tinyurl.com/muv33mth

Reminder ❗️❗️❗️ Dont forget to register 👇👇

Citizenship in the News 📰🇧🇩 Dual citizenship: Bangladesh’s latest political flashpoint before elections: A divide over whether dual citizens should be allowed to contest has led to protests that are threatening to derail the February 12 elections www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Citizenship in the News 📰🇰🇭 Cambodia Finalizes Process to Arbitrarily Strip Citizenship: New Sub-Decree Allows Revocation without Conviction, Review, or Appeal www.hrw.org/news/2026/01...

Webinar Alert ❗ Africa’s new treaty on statelessness and the right to a nationality: How to make it work? Two years after adoption, this webinar examines the AU Protocol on the Right to a Nationality and the Eradication of Statelessness ⚖️ 📅 Feb 4th 17:00 - 18:00 CET Register: tinyurl.com/muv33mth

New article just accepted by🇨🇳Fudan J Hum & Soc Sci❗️ @basheska.bsky.social & I approach the concept of citizenship from the angle of its core aspect: blood aristocracy. Pe-print @ssrn.bsky.social: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @globalcit.bsky.social @maartenpvink.bsky.social @profjacob.bsky.social

Reminder 🚨 If you are in Florence, be sure to join us tomorrow 👇

📣 Call for Papers: Annual GLOBALCIT and @mpc-eui.bsky.social Conference: Architectures of Global Mobility We invite scholars, researchers, and practitioners from all disciplines to explore the complex system governing the movement of people across borders Abstract: 3 Feb 🔗 tinyurl.com/2cp2f2yd

Join us for the first GLOBALCIT Seminar of 2026 💫 Julia Schweers will examine how pathways to dual citizenship shape socio-economic outcomes, with particular attention to migrants from the Global South who naturalise in countries of the Global North 🇬🇭 📅 Jan 15 - 12:00 CET 🔗 tinyurl.com/4hzkubj2

Great piece by @ashleymhollands.bsky.social in @theconversation.com on what is happening with citizenship under Trump. Not good when the State questions the citizenship of millions of Americans. @globalcit.bsky.social @eui-ggp.bsky.social @eui-schuman.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social

“If there had been an original understanding that tracked the Trump administration’s executive order,” Professor @amandafrost.bsky.social said, “at least some of these people would have been challenged.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...

Here's more on the well-informed and balanced ruling on various problematic revisions of the nationality law adopted by Portuguese parliament.: www.linkedin.com/posts/maarte...

Stoked that first citation of new paper on ‘Waves of Securitisation: The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of Citizenship Stripping Regulations in Europe, 1960–2022’ (lnkd.in/dM_jjsFt) is by the 🇵🇹 Constitutional Court! And good use of @globalcit.bsky.social Citizenship Law Dataset (lnkd.in/dgXraZJA). 💪

✨ GLOBALCIT 2025 Wrapped 🎁 It's been a busy year at GLOBALCIT❗ Check out our latest Spotlights newsletter to catch up on our activities, major dataset updates📊, publications📚, and discussion fora 💭 from the past year. 📄 Read: tinyurl.com/ydsndzct 📬 Subscribe: tinyurl.com/2nwb36vh

Are you an early career researcher? Have some time over the break? 🤔 Make sure to enter the 2026 GLOBALCIT Essay Award 🏆 Full details 👇👇

Italy is among the European countries with the most restrictive citizenship laws for the children of immigrants born on its territory, while several other European governments are also tightening access to citizenship. Video by @artefr.bsky.social. www.arte.tv/it/videos/12...

Citizenship in the News 🗞🇿🇦 Govt proposes merit-based system for South African citizenship: Stricter rules for the acquisition of South African citizenship have been proposed in a draft revised White Paper on Citizenship, Immigration and Refugee Protection www.businessday.co.za/news/2025-12...

NEW Publication featuring a great lineup of citizenship scholars!! :) “The Archipelago Capitalism of Citizenship-By-Investment”, Comparative Political Studies, lnkd.in/dQPG4Q7J @maartenpvink.bsky.social @globalcit.bsky.social @eui-ggp.bsky.social

With the US Supreme Court now reviewing Trump’s attempt to curb birthright citizenship, our new open-access article examines how actors in France and the US frame *ius soli* as a ‘magnet’ for migration to justify reforms. Full text: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #BirthrightCitizenship #IusSoli

Your Friday #citizenship read delivered by @globalcit.bsky.social. On NZ's balancing act on citizenship’s core claim to be a status of political equality with the citizenship status of Māori, as protected by the Treaty of Waitangi.

New Blog Alert ❗ Kate McMillan explores the nature of the citizenship claim considered by the Waitangi Tribunal in 2025 📜⚖️ Analysing its findings and recommendations, the government's reaction, and what happens next ✒️ 📖 tinyurl.com/39v42dj2

Looking for some winter reading ? 🤔 Check out @bronwenmanby.bsky.social thread of literature on the British citizenship policy at the dissolution of empire & the exclusion of those formerly under British rule

⏰️ Reminder ⏰️ Make sure to join us tomorrow for the last GLOBALCIT Seminar of 2025 ✨️ Lunch will follow the seminar 🥗 Full details and registration 👇👇

In this blog post, I explore the ongoing restrictions on Finnish citizenship, examining their causes as well as implications for applicants and the Nordics. Thank you @globalcit.bsky.social @koneensaatio.fi and @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social