“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

📣 Call for Abstracts! Join the 4th Doctoral Conference on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy, March 19 -20, 2026 at the MPIfG in Cologne. 🎓 We welcome abstracts by doctoral researchers in economic sociology, political economy and related fields by Dec 8, 2025. s.gwdg.de/U27NQb

Syrians for Truth and Justice recommend that the Syrian transitional justice process formally integrate the case of Kurds deprived of nationality through the 1962 census #statelessness stj-sy.org/en/strangers...

New Blog Alert 📣 @ninaca.bsky.social analyses how radical-right influence is driving a three-phase tightening of Finland’s naturalisation regime 🇫🇮 A shift that signals a harsher, more exclusionary model of Nordic citizenship across the region 🔍 Read 📖 shorturl.at/md5zK

GLOBALCIT December Seminar ⚡ Our very own @maartenpvink.bsky.social and @jdzankic.bsky.social will present new data on whether CBI programmes, despite the criticism, have achieved their objective of fostering economic growth 🤔 📅 4 Dec, 12:00–13:00 📍 Sala Triaria 🔗 tinyurl.com/3cmmfy94

Another amazing achievement of the @globalcit.bsky.social team on electoral rights: @sumpierrez.bsky.social, @wegschaider.bsky.social & Rainer Baubock just published in Scientific Data (@nature.com !) on our new Migrant Electoral Rights dataset! 👏 @eui-schuman.bsky.social @eui-ggp.bsky.social

Want to know more about the MER dataset 🤔 Read Sebastian Umpierrez de Reguero, Klaudia Wegschaider and Rainer Bauböcks explain in their new publication ⚡ MER maps migrant voting and candidacy rights in 165 countries across 60 years 🗳️🌍📊 ⚡ tinyurl.com/mtm2rp53

We are happy to publish Engin Isin’s response to the five commentaries in our Review Symposium on Citizenship✨ Engin reflects on the paradoxes of human and citizenship rights, the limits of state authority, and the planetary challenges reshaping political belonging 🌍 🔗 globalcit.eu/globalcit-re...

Thanks @bronwenmanby.bsky.social for keeping us posted as always on citizenship law developments across Africa. Sharing your 3 posts on #dualcitizenship in: South Africa (new portal for cit recovery) Malawi/Zimbabwe (increased uptake) South Sudan (barring dual citizens from public office)

On my way to Halle, Germany to join the celebratory launch of the CUREDI database on Judicial approaches to issues of cultural and religious diversity in Europe, sharing our @globalcit.bsky.social database experiences. www.curedi-law.de

Call for Papers 📝📣 Citizenship in Displacement: Policies, Practices and Lived Experiences, 25–26 June 2026 in Tangier 🇲🇦 The 2-day workshop will explore how citizenship is reconfigured, negotiated, and contested in contexts of displacement 🔍 📨 Abstract due: 31 Jan 2026

Citizenship in the News 📰 🇮🇩 Indonesia grants unlimited stay permit for former citizens in lieu of dual citizenship: Govt Launches “Global Citizenship” Scheme to Solve Dual Nationality Dilemma www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

We are delighted to announce that @ashleymhollands.bsky.social a longstanding GLOBALCIT collaborator, has been appointed as the new GLOBALCIT Coordinator and Research Fellow at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies 🎉 📰 globalcit.eu/ashley-manth...

New study @globalcit.bsky.social compares conditions for citizenship acquisition in 11 European countries: most common residency requirement is 5 years, but several states require longer. Fast-track naturalisation options exist across Europe. globalcit.eu/new-globalci...

Canadian citizenship can now be passed down to people born abroad, beyond the first generation, if the parents spent a cumulative three years in Canada before the child's birth. Still contestation around "intercountry adoptees" when it comes to passing down citizenship.

Check out our @globalcit.bsky.social Global State of Citizenship report on how the Canadian rules fit in the 🌎 picture. globalgovernanceprogramme.eui.eu/global-state...

Citizenship in the News 📰🇨🇦 Bill restoring citizenship for 'Lost Canadians' becomes law: Court ruled government must pass law covering some children born abroad www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Call for Papers: Citizenship in Displacement (25–26 June 2026, Tangier, Morocco) Submissions are invited for the workshop “Citizenship in Displacement: Policies, Practices, and Lived Experiences”, taking place on 25–26 June 2026 in Tangier, Morocco.

For those interested in the law&procedures of citizenship acquisition, @globalcit.bsky.social has a new resource on 11 European countries - I have contributed a chapter with updates on the Belgian law

The unfinished struggle for gender equality in Ethiopia’s nationality law #equalnationality addisstandard.com/citizens-by-...

Protocol to the African Charter on HPR on the right to a nationality and the eradication of #statelessness in Africa adopted in Feb 2024 has official launch event at the AU HQ in Addis

Delighted to see our new @globalcit.bsky.social study on the conditions for #citizenship acquisition by immigrants and their descendants, out now in #openaccess!

New GLOBALCIT study compares the conditions of the citizenship acquisition processes for first-generation immigrants and their descendants in 11 countries 🇦🇹🇧🇪🇩🇰🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇱🇻🇳🇱🇵🇹🇸🇪🇬🇧 📰 Summary and Key Findings: tinyurl.com/56sknbxw 📖 Full Report: tinyurl.com/yc6cdszx

📝 New Blog on the MER dataset What is the state of migrant electoral rights across the globe❓ by Hannah Segers 🌍📊 MER shows that while more countries grant migrants voting and candidacy rights, millions remain excluded, highlighting inequalities in democratic participation 🗳️ tinyurl.com/2uye2frs

Really, what is wrong with people? In Finland, persons who do not have any income other than unemployment benefit or social assistance will no longer be eligible to naturalize. @globalcit.bsky.social www.dailyfinland.fi/national/457...

📢 Event alert 📢 Join us for a lecture by Rainer Bauböck, in which he builds on a recent debate at @globalcit.bsky.social by exploring the motives behind reparative citizenship and its normative value." 📍 D109 Central European University, Vienna 📅 01 December 2025 | 10:50 am

❗ Reminder ❗ You can still join us today for this month's Seminar 👇

Citizenship in the News 📰🇩🇿 Fears of political targeting as Algeria revisits citizenship law: Many argue that the bill is aimed at Algerian dissidents abroad, who justify their positions by pointing to restrictions on media and political freedoms at home. thearabweekly.com/fears-politi...

Citizenship in the News 📰🇪🇸 Spain grants citizenship to descendants of civil war’s International Brigades: About 32,000 volunteered to fight Franco dictatorship www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Applications are now open for the UCD Iseult Honohan Doctoral Scholarship 2026! 📚 Full PhD funding in Politics & International Relations or Quantitative and Computational Social Science at University College Dublin 🕔 Deadline: 30 Jan 2026, 5 pm (Dublin) www.ucd.ie/spire/study/...

Citizenship in the News 📰🇧🇼 Botswana has joined the growing list of African countries introducing Citizenship-by-Investment (CBI) programs. Branded the Impact Investment Program, it is expected to take full effect early next year at a $75,000 minimum investment. financeinafrica.com/news/botswan...

✨ GLOBALCIT Seminar ✨ Join Eline Westra as she explores Surinamese-Dutch resistance to dispersal policies in the 1970s–80s and their broader implications for race, community, and integration in the 🇳🇱 🗓️ Thur 6 Nov 2025 | 12:00–13:00 CET 📍 Schifanoia, Mansarda Register 🔗 tinyurl.com/3hbf4jxa

It was a pleasure to participate in yesterday's webinar on "Rethinking citizenship in Europe: policies, challenges, perspectives", organised by Fondazione ISMU and to share our work @globalcit.bsky.social. If you've missed it, check out the recording here: youtu.be/kJbkuBdYzb0?....

Ex-Pres Rajoelina stripped of Madagascan nationality (but is not #stateless, since he has French nationality) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

How will Artificial Intelligence transform membership, rights and practices of citizenship? If you have some original thoughts on this intriguing question, participate in this year‘s @globalcit.bsky.social Rainer Bauböck Essay Award! Check out further details ⬇️

Eric Fripp @opiniojuris.bsky.social on deprivation of nationality in Kuwait #citizenshipdeprivation opiniojuris.org/2025/10/21/t...

Calling all early-career #Citizenship researchers 📣 Submit your entry for the 2026 GLOBALCIT – Rainer Bauböck Essay Award 🏆 The ❓ How will Artificial Intelligence transform membership, rights and practices of citizenship? 🏅 €1,000 + publication 📖 ➡️ tinyurl.com/bde6wn9w