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Make sure to submit your entry for the 2026 Rainer Baubรถck Essay Award โ
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Looking for some writing inspiration for March? ๐ค
Make sure to submit your entry for the 2026 Rainer Baubรถck Essay Award โ
Full details below ๐
Seminar: Emigrant voting rights: a question of national belonging โ
Join Elizabeth Iams Wellman (University of Memphis) to examine the initial legal extension of voting rights to citizens abroad in sub-Saharan Africa ๐
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Webinar Alert โ
Africaโs 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 โ๏ธ
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Feb 4th 17:00 - 18:00 CET
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โWhat happens when a state questions the citizenship of millions of its citizens?
Read the full analysis in a piece by @ashleymhollands.bsky.social @eui-schuman.bsky.social published on The Conversation ๐https://loom.ly/ElP60JU
Join us for the first GLOBALCIT Seminar of 2026 ๐ซ
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 ๐ฌ๐ญ
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Jan 15 - 12:00 CET
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Read my latest piece on what is happening with citizenship under Trump. Potential changes to denaturalization practices could put more naturalized Americans at risk to losing their citizenship...
theconversation.com/denaturaliza...
โจ GLOBALCIT 2025 Wrapped ๐
It's been a busy year at GLOBALCITโ Check out our latest Spotlights newsletter to catch up on our activities, major dataset updates๐, publications๐, and discussion fora ๐ญ from the past year.
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New Blog Alert ๐ฃ
@ninaca.bsky.social analyses how radical-right influence is driving a three-phase tightening of Finlandโs naturalisation regime ๐ซ๐ฎ
A shift that signals a harsher, more exclusionary model of Nordic citizenship across the region ๐
Read ๐ shorturl.at/md5zK
Very happy to be continuing to work with @maartenpvink.bsky.social, @jdzankic.bsky.social, @joshaw.bsky.social, Rainer Baubรถck and the rest of the @globalcit.bsky.social team for the foreseeable future! yay!
New GLOBALCIT study compares the conditions of the citizenship acquisition processes for first-generation immigrants and their descendants in 11 countries ๐ฆ๐น๐ง๐ช๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ซ๐ท๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ๐น๐ฑ๐ป๐ณ๐ฑ๐ต๐น๐ธ๐ช๐ฌ๐ง
๐ฐ Summary and Key Findings: tinyurl.com/56sknbxw
๐ Full Report: tinyurl.com/yc6cdszx
Check out our new @globalcit.bsky.social report on The Global State of Citizenship!
> Find out more about how citizenship is regulated ๐
> Focus on gender equality, immigrant inclusion, security of status
> Explore new data on regulations in 191 countries up to 2024
Online now at ๐ loom.ly/JeESa3g
๐ Just launched: The Global State of Citizenship 2025 report โก
Explore trends in citizenship laws across 191 countries (2020โ2024), including dual citizenship, gender equality, immigrant inclusion & more ๐
๐ Read the full report: globalgovernanceprogramme.eui.eu/global-state...
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 now๐ www.eui.eu/events?id=57...
Very excited about next week's launch of a โจ new @globalcit.bsky.social report on the *Global State of Citizenship*, accompanying the update of our GLOBALCIT Citizenship Law Dataset!
Stay tuned for more updates next week & register for our webinar on 18 June 5-6pm CET:
www.eui.eu/events?id=57...
On June 8-9, Italy will hold a referendum, including one question on reducing naturalisation residency from 10 to 5 years.
With @maartenpvink.bsky.social & @yajnagovind.bsky.social we suggest that this would align Italyโs citizenship laws with much of Europe.
firenze.repubblica.it/dossier/fire...
Had a great chat with @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social and @mpc-eui.bsky.social about the connections between migration and citizenship research โบ๏ธ
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
I wrote about the "lost Canadians" for the latest @globalcit.bsky.social forum debate. If you're curious about what might motivate governments to "repair citizenship", read here!
If it comes into force, President Donald Trumpโs executive order ending birthright citizenship could have consequences for people and processes in the US and abroad.
What happens if the US ends birthright citizenship? The impact could go beyond undocumented communitiesโaffecting LGBTQ+ families, lower-income parents & surrogacy. EUI scholars @ashleymhollands.bsky.social & @jdzankic.bsky.social break it down in @theconversation.com ๐
๐๏ธ Read more: buff.ly/j76dgN0
Important @theconversation.com piece by @ashleymhollands.bsky.social & @jdzankic.bsky.social on how the attempt to restrict birthright citizenship would also spark return to heteronormative defs of parentage. If conditioned on cit or resident status of parent, it matters a lot who โcountsโ as parent
Adding to ๐งต a link to post discussing how the attempt to restrict birthright citizenship would also spark return to heteronormative defs of parentage. If conditioned on cit or resident status of parent, it matters a lot who โcountsโ as parent.
bsky.app/profile/ashl...
Laws must be certain, and their consequences foreseeable. This is especially important for people bringing new life into this world with the help of assisted reproduction technologies (ART).
might be of interest @maartenpvink.bsky.social and @peterspiro.bsky.social !
@jdzankic.bsky.social and I wrote about the broader consequences of the end of birthright citizenship in the US...
Read here๐
theconversation.com/ending-us-bi...
@maartenvink.bsky.social super interesting! Thanks!