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

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

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 📰🇪🇸 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...

Last week, I presented my research at the University of Rijeka (@unirijeka.bsky.social) during an event celebrating Croatia's accession to @eui-eu.bsky.social. I am grateful to the session's chair, Tena Prelec (@tenaprelec.bsky.social), & the audience for great questions & engagement.

🚨 Webinar Alert 🚨 Join us for the online launch of the new Migrant Electoral Rights (MER) Dataset, the most comprehensive global dataset on migrant suffrage to date 🌐 📅 Oct 15 | 17:00 CEST 📍 Online 🔗 Register www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

Explore the new GLOBALCIT Migrant Electoral Rights (MER) Dataset ❗🌐 🌍 165 countries (1960–2020) 📊 488 indicators 🗳️ voting & candidacy rights of non-citizen residents + non-resident citizens 🏛️ Differentiates election type (legislative, executive, referendum) & level 📥: tinyurl.com/yv37nj7m

I’ve been waiting for this since February, and it is quite a bit of an anticlimax. See 🧵 for a few thoughts on the #goldcard, #residence, #US www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

📢 New Open-Access Working Paper! @artsofdenial.bsky.social & Rainer Bauböck ask: Citizenship as Reparations: Should the Victims of Historical Injustice Be Offered Membership❓ 13 authors reply 💬, exploring questions of justice, colonialism, nation-building, and more 🌍 📖 🔗 tinyurl.com/dz8ht87z

Great to see @globalcit.bsky.social’s Rainer Bauböck at the launch of the @internationalidea.bsky.social Global State of Democracy Report 2025. Emphasising the important implications of out-of-country voting in times of democratic recession both in migrant origin countries and destination countries.

Delighted to have coordinated this book symposium, showcasing Engin Isin's important contribution to citizenship studies and citizenship theory. Thank you to all the reviewers!

📢 New Book Review Symposium 📚 Engin Isin’s Citizenship: New Trajectories in Law explores the paradox of human vs citizenship rights & asks if a planetary citizenship can emerge 🤔 Isin reflects on 35 years of struggles, rights, and paradoxes shaping modern citizenship 🔗 tinyurl.com/yed9efba

That’s a Wrap 🎬 David Owen & Rainer Bauböck respond to 13 entries in the Citizenship as Reparations Debate 🤔 Does why a state offers reparative citizenship matter as much as to whom? 🎭 Can symbolic reparation mask selective immigration? ⚖️ When is it a moral duty, not just a choice? 🔗 t.ly/UPMSb

New Entry ✨ @jdzankic.bsky.social warns that reparative citizenship 🛂 isn’t always about justice ⚖️ It’s selective (who counts), transactional (status-for-benefit), and strategic (state interest first) 🇪🇸🇲🇽🇱🇷 A passport 🛂 isn’t always reparations, sometimes it’s geopolitics 🌍 🔗 tinyurl.com/2v2n5v4k

Hanging out in Budapest with a great citizenship crowd ❤️ @jdzankic.bsky.social @bronwenmanby.bsky.social @peterspiro.bsky.social

Great to back in Budapest to teach at this year's edition of ‪CEU's summer school on Contestations of Citizenship in Times of Global Democratic Backsliding. Looking forward to exchange insights with participants! Thanks for the invitation @jdzankic.bsky.social & Szabolcs Pogonyi. lnkd.in/dqxq-Qn6

The Recent Illiberal Turn and Social Policy in the Western Balkans cadmus.eui.eu/server/api/c...

📕📕📕NEW BOOK!! Supported by the EUI Widening Europe Programme and GGP - Southeastern Europe, the book is based on an exchange about democracy and geopolitics among scholars from the #WesternBalkans, Central and Eastern Europe, and EUI-based postdoctoral fellows. cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/...

The strangest thing happened to me today. I got a google alert that I have been quoted (a direct quote with name and affiliation) in a news outlet I never talked to on a topic I never talked about. Anyone with a similar experience?

🌍 Just launched: The Global State of Citizenship 2025 report ⚡ Explore trends in citizenship laws across 191 countries (2020–2024), including dual citizenship, gender equality, immigrant inclusion & more 📊 🔗 Read the full report: globalgovernanceprogramme.eui.eu/global-state...

📣 The Global State of Citizenship 2025 report is now live. ✍️ Authored by the GLOBALCIT team at the Global Governance Programme, the report draws on data from 191 countries and highlights key global trends in citizenship law. Read the PR to learn more & download the report🔗 loom.ly/JeESa3g

@maartenpvink.bsky.social @jdzankic.bsky.social @globalcit.bsky.social @eui-schuman.bsky.social @eui-ggp.bsky.social

Make sure you don't miss the official launch of the updated GLOBALCIT Dataset ✨️ This Wednesday, 18 June ⏰️🚨 More info and registration link 👇

I will but you shouldn’t …

Trump Card is NOT coming unless there’s a statute to back it up. Or this is some side hustle/grift in which you get “Trump” “citizenship” and has nothing to do with the real thing.

Join the GLOBALCIT team for thr launch the Global State of Citizenship report & the third edition of the GLOBALCIT Citizenship Law Dataset. Based on data from 191 countries, key findings on current citizenship legislation around the world will be presented. Register now🔗 www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

We'll have a stellar line up of speakers and commentators in next week's @globalcit.bsky.social webinar on the Global State of Citizenship. incl: @jdzankic.bsky.social @ashleymhollands.bsky.social @saragoodman.bsky.social @colinyeo.bsky.social register here: www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

Our new article on Migration Studies shows that states used essential travel during Covid-19 to prioritise the mobility of their citizens over vulnerable groups. This highlights the strength of nationality and the precarity of asylum as foundations for international movement in times of crisis.

Had a great chat with @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social and @mpc-eui.bsky.social about the connections between migration and citizenship research ☺️

Check out this fascinating debate on citizenship as reparation for historical injustices started by @artsofdenial.bsky.social sky.social and Rainer Bauböck 👇

Here more on the recent EU Court of Justice ruling on the commercialisation of EU citizenship by Malta: bsky.app/profile/maar...

For more on the global market for citizenship, see the work of my @globalcit.bsky.social @eui-schuman.bsky.social colleague @jdzankic.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

If this sounds sinister, that's because it is. Kälin said the company proactively approached countries. “We did the entire programme in Antigua . . . We made Saint Lucia do it,” he said.

How many mentors, friends, and colleagues you have been working with for the last twelve years you can squeeze in one photo.

Looking forward to our monthly Global Citizenship here at Villa Schifanoia @eui-schuman.bsky.social this Thursday 12-13 with the great Imke Harbers (University of Amsterdam). Join us if you are around! Also for our group lunch afterwards. www.eui.eu/events?id=56... (in-person only)

Two days well spent at the @mpc-eui.bsky.social @globalcit.bsky.social annual conference with a great bunch of interesting contributions on the contested boundaries of global migration and citizenship

Day one at the @mpc-eui.bsky.social @globalcit.bsky.social conference on “Contested boundaries”, with a fantastic collection of migration and citizenship scholars. We’ll talk about ius soli in the US and France (Mayotte) together with @camillev.bsky.social this afternoon!

We are happy to announce the winner of the 2025 Rainer Bauböck Essay Award 🏅 Timothy Anderson and his Essay: Civilizational Citizenship: Geopolitics and the Remaking of Belonging in Estonia 🇪🇪 The award ceremony marked the close of the first day of the annual conference Congrats Timothy 👏

⚡️Happening now⚡️ Day one of the @mpc-eui.bsky.social and GLOBALCIT annual conference Contested boundaries: migration and citizenship regimes in comparative perspective 💬🗯 With an amazing collection of migration and citizenship scholars, gathered together in sunny Florence ☀️

🎉 Just launched: new version of Cadmus, @euilibrary.bsky.social's research repository! The revamped platform offers better visibility, accessibility, and usability of EUI’s research through a more user-friendly interface and enhanced search. 📚💻 Find out more👉 loom.ly/APOd498

Throwback to May 1949. Tomorrow, 76 years ago, the Treaty of London was signed by Belgium, Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom, founding the Council of Europe.

My blog on yesterday’s EU Court judgment outlawing “commercial” selling of EU citizenship verfassungsblog.de/the-eu-free-... at @verfassungsblog.de

Colleagues in @globalcit.bsky.social including @maartenpvink.bsky.social and @jdzankic.bsky.social may be interested in this online event. Please repost!

And check out the work on investor citizenship by my great @globalcit.bsky.social @eui-schuman.bsky.social colleague @jdzankic.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

See also 🧵 by @profjacob.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/prof...

Extremely pleased to see this judgment - especially the focus on solidarity and mutual trust among the MS curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...

Reflecting the current authoritarian Zeitgeist, Nations in Transit research project by @freedomhouse.bsky.social, evaluating the state of democracy in former post-communist countries, has been discontinued after twenty years due to a lack of funding. This is what civilizational decline looks like.

Don't miss out on this #EUIWidening opportunity 👀 Designed to enhance knowledge exchange and access to resources in social sciences & humanities, this #call invites researchers to apply for short-term mobility stays at the #EUI. 📚🤝 Apply by 21 April, 23:59 CEST ➡️ buff.ly/4c7bq8H

💥🎙️ I had the pleasure to talk to @neweasterneurope.eu's podcast, Talk Eastern Europe, on the links between illiberalism and EU enlargement, and on what this means for the Western Balkans' EU accession prospects. You can listen to it here 👇🏻 talkeasterneurope.eu/episodes/epi...

I know there is a lot of stuff going on in the world today, but just a reminder that Kuwait has stripped citizenship from 42,000 people (!) after suspending the region’s only parliament last year. It's shocking. @globalcit.bsky.social middleeasttransparent.com/kuwait-the-g...