Citizenship in the News 📰🇺🇲 Trump seeks expedited Supreme Court review of birthright citizenship executive order: The administration wants definitive ruling on proposed citizenship restrictions. abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...

A big thank you to all the colleagues, country experts, staff at electoral commissions, and other kind people that guided us or responded to our detailed questions. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Wow! It’s finally out there. Together with @sumpierrez.bsky.social and R. Bauböck, I am happy to share this resource. Stay tuned for news on 1. Our launch event 2. Our detailed dataset descriptor (conditional accept this morning!) 3. Another preprint paper showing more new results.

🧵 on Trump Gold Card, an investor visa leading to a residency permit for the United States 🇺🇸

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

Apatride Network &🇪🇪Yana Toom MEP host @europarl.europa.eu event on #statelessness. My focus: shortsightedness of citizenist approach to statelessness in the🇪🇺EU drawing on my @annualreviews.bsky.social artcile: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... @ceudeminst.bsky.social @globalcit.bsky.social

Citizenship in the News 🇮🇸 Icelandic citizenship increasingly difficult to obtain: As of next year, the fee for Icelandic citizenship will increase. The aim is to reduce the number of applications and ease pressure on the immigration office. www.ruv.is/english/2025...

Our Co-Director Rainer Bauböck speaks at the launch of International IDEA’s Global State of Democracy 2025: Democracy on the Move 🌍📊 Presenting the new Migrant Electoral Rights dataset 🗳️ 🔗 globalcit.eu/rainer-baubo... Read the full report 👇

📢 Applications are open for SAF(E) 2026! The Apatride Network invites you to join the 3rd Annual Statelessness Awareness Forum 🌎 🎯 Theme: Achieving Sustainable Impact 📍 Malta | 19–22 Mar 2026 ⏰ Apply by Oct 31, 2025 Full details and registration form 🔗 apatride.eu/safe/

Revised citizenship test should ensure that new citizens are “fully assimilated and will contribute to America’s greatness.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/w...

Citizenship in the News 📰 🇹🇩 Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno has stripped two vocal anti-government activists of their Chadian nationality, accusing them of colluding with foreign powers apanews.net/two-chadian-...

Are you planning to attend IMISCOE 2026 in Girona and working on immigrant naturalization? @ninaca.bsky.social and I are inviting abstracts to put together a panel. Sends us your paper abstract if you are interested to join! @migcitpol.bsky.social #MigCitSky www.linkedin.com/posts/nina-c...

📣 Call for Papers 📣 Citizenship Challenges for Children and Young People: Barriers, Borders, and Bureaucracy in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives 🌍🚧📜 📝 Abstracts: 20 Oct 2025 📄 Drafts: 31 Mar 2026 📍 Workshop: Barcelona, 14–15 May 2026 (TBC) ✅ Final Paper: 17 Jul 2026 Full Details 👇

Reminder ❗️❗️ Join us tomorrow for the first GLOBALCIT seminar of the new academic year ✨️ Registration link and details 👇

🚨The Swiss parliament has decided to let mentally disabled persons vote! Yet, suffrage in democracies remains persistently non-universal (see 2015 ELECLAW data below, Switzerland marked yellow). For more, check out the @globalcit.bsky.social electoral rights database: globalcit.eu/conditions-f...

The GLOBALCIT Monthly Seminars are back this Thursday⚡ Join Nina Carlsson to explore how language and citizenship tests are reshaping access to naturalisation in Sweden, Finland, and Denmark 🇸🇪🇫🇮🇩🇰 📅 Sep 18, 2025 ⏰ 12:00–13:00 CEST 📍 Sala Triaria, Villa Schifanoia ✒️ www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

Citizenship in the News 📰🇺🇸 New Bill Would Give Marco Rubio “Thought Police” Power to Revoke U.S. Passports: Rubio has already sought to punish immigrants for speech. New legislation might let him do it for U.S. citizens. theintercept.com/2025/09/13/m...

Citizenship in the News 📰🇨🇾 Cyprus strips citizenship from 28 more ''Golden Passport'' holders: Move brings total revocations to 360 since 2021 as government pushes to restore credibility 🔗 knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cypr...

📢 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

📢 New blog Alert! 🇧🇯 In 2024, Benin adopted a law granting people of African descent nationality "by recognition" 🌍 Why does it matter & how does it work? 🤔 Eric Codjo Montcho Agbassa & Renaud Fiacre Avlessi break down its context, key provisions, legal effects & appeal ⚖️ 🔗 tinyurl.com/bdff8ud4

Nigerian House of Representatives debating a new bill on #citizenshipbyinvestment (introduced by the deputy speaker & others) punchng.com/controversy-...

Complex contest over the right to Muscogee native american tribal citizenship for descendants of black Americans formerly enslaved by the tribe apnews.com/article/musc...

Citizenship in the News 📰🇰🇭 Cambodia MPs pass ‘chilling’ bill enabling citizenship to be stripped: Coalition of rights groups says law covering ‘collusion’ could be abused to stifle government’s opponents www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

🆕 publication alert ✨ I’m delighted our paper on Waves of Securitisation: The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of Citizenship Stripping Regulations in Europe, with Luuk vd Baaren & Maria Gerdes is out now in Statelessness & Citizenship Review! 🔗 statelessnessandcitizenshipreview.com/index.php/jo...

Ancestry citizenship a two-way street: Barbados to provide facilitated access to citizenship to Liberians of Bajan descent - from 365 who left Barbados for Liberia in 1865 frontpageafricaonline.com/news/barbado...

#OutNow: New report on #Ukraine's citizenship in wartime. @rameshg.bsky.social & @faburkhardt.bsky.social (#LeibnizIOS) analyze how #Russia's war transforms Ukrainian citizenship policy through forced naturalizations, demographic crisis, and mass displacement amid mobilization. #OpenAccess ⬇️

🚨 This overview of quantitative political science data and methods for comparative immigration law is intended for students and scholars of other methodological and/or disciplinary backgrounds. @migcitizenapsa.bsky.social @migcitpol.bsky.social @globalcit.bsky.social ‪

🌍 Looking for summer reading? Explore our Citizenship Lit Database for the latest research ⚡ From non-resident citizens’ vote choice in plebiscites, to refugees paths to naturalisation in Germany, citizenship trials in India, postcolonial legacies in the Caribbean & more 📖: tinyurl.com/5n7pr623

Cyprus Council of Ministers has decided to revoke citizenship given to 306 persons under the #citizenshipbyinvestment scheme in place 2007-2020 (88 investors and 218 family members) - other investigations still underway (slowly) cyprus-mail.com/2025/08/17/t...

@lhr-sa.bsky.social upcoming event in which Lawyers for Human Rights South Africa's #Statelessness Unit will discuss the 'Her Document, Her Dignity' campaign highlighting the barriers faced by women and families who lack official identity documents events.teams.microsoft.com/event/822bb2...

Well said, @peterspiro.bsky.social in @nytimes.com on Marco Rubio’s 2016 defense of birthright citizenship. “There’s no reason why the argument he put to work in 2016 couldn’t be put to work today against the Trump executive order,” Professor Spiro wrote. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/u...

My @mitpress.bsky.social "Citizenship" now costs less at the @strandbookstore.bsky.social than on Amazon.com: I always pass by Strand, when in 🇺🇸NYC, those guys are miracle-makers❗️ Intro on @ssrn.bsky.social: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @weareceu.bsky.social @globalcit.bsky.social

New #MigCitSky Report ⚡ 📑 🇮🇳 Unmaking Citizens report shows how Assam’s Foreigners Tribunals fuel exclusion ⚖️ Based on 1,193 High Court cases and field interviews 🚷 165,000+ declared "foreigners" ⏳ 85,000+ cases pending 📂 1M+ NRC appeals coming Read the full report 🔗 tinyurl.com/3u2ane78

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 blog post by Kamilla Galicz 🧾 ⚠️ 🇭🇺 Hungary’s new citizenship suspension law isn’t just legal reform, it’s revocation in disguise 🚨 It targets naturalised dual citizens, weakens due process & reflects the broader authoritarian shift in Hungary’s legal system 🔗 globalcit.eu/the-hungaria...

Every state defines its own rules for gaining and losing citizenship. This clear, visually rich report by @globalcit.bsky.social captures the diverse ways countries shape and control who belongs and who doesn’t. globalgovernanceprogramme.eui.eu/global-state...

📢 New Working Paper 📝 🛑 Citizenship isn’t a universal status, it’s a legal spectrum that hides deep inequalities @marcloureiro.bsky.social challenges binary notions of citizenship, developing a taxonomy that shows how constitutions create and maintain exclusion 📚 👓➡️ cadmus.eui.eu/entities/pub...

More on Benin's law on grant of nationality to afrodescendants fr.apanews.net/news/benin-t...

🎯spoke to @aljazeera.com on global citizenship apartheid: m.youtube.com/watch?v=HdHS... Delight to showcase my @mitpress.bsky.social book❗️Brief summary at @icon-s.bsky.social: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @globalcit.bsky.social @profjacob.bsky.social @weareceu.bsky.social @peterspiro.bsky.social

Spike Lee will be marketing Benin's offer of citizenship to the African diaspora #citizenshipinafrica #rightofreturn www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm excited to share pre-print of a ✨ new paper with the great @sumpierrez.bsky.social! We study ’pathways of external citizenship’ across 194 countries 🌎 since 1960. We do so by building a sequence analysis of the timing and extent of dual citizenship acceptance and external voting rights. a 🧵

Can Trump revoke citizenship, and how often does it happen worldwide? > No, and too often. Informative @washingtonpost.com piece drawing on @globalcit.bsky.social data on the regulation of citizenship revokation around the world. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Here's the text of the new law from #Mali enabling grant of the status of #stateless person; includes facilitated naturalisation (art 21) and steps to establish nationality if born in the country (art 22) citizenshiprightsafrica.org/mali-loi-no-...

🚨 New publication in JEMS: "Whom do we naturalise? A factorial survey on naturalisation preferences in Germany." How do ordinary Germans evaluate hypothetical naturalisation applications—considering factors like language proficiency, employment, and country of origin?

“U.S. citizens can relinquish their citizenship voluntarily, and federal courts can strip naturalized citizens of their citizenship if there is proven fraud or misrepresentation or other major cause. But U.S.-born citizens cannot have their citizenship taken away.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/u...

🌍 The 2025 GLOBALCIT Rainer Bauböck Essay Award goes to Timothy Anderson 🏆 Timothy's winning essay "Civilisational Citizenship in Estonia" has now been published open-access on Cadmus. Congratulations Timothy 🎉 📰 tinyurl.com/r8r328hz Read his winning essay 👉 tinyurl.com/mryufnjc