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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

Earned Settlement and Citizenship: The pursuit of virtue in the White Paper ‘Restoring Control over the Immigration System’ The earned settlement and earned citizenship provisions in the UK government’s White Paper, Restoring Control over the Immigration System (May 2025) are advanced by the Home Office as part of its a…

@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...

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. Successive governments have tightened migration rules...

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

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Citizenship literature Archives - Globalcit

📚 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 ❗️❗️❗️

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Dual citizenship: Bangladesh’s latest political flashpoint before elections A divide over whether dual citizens should be allowed to contest is threatening Bangladesh's February elections.

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...

Cambodia Finalizes Process to Arbitrarily Strip Citizenship The Cambodian government has issued formal instructions that will allow it to arbitrarily strip Cambodians of citizenship without any judicial review or appeal.

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.

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A Conspicuous Gap May Undermine Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Plan

“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...

Stoked to see that the Portuguese Constitutional Court 🇵🇹 cites both the GLOBALCIT Citizenship Law Dataset (https://lnkd.in/dgXraZJA) and our recent paper with Luuk van der Baaren and Dr. Maria… | Maa... Stoked to see that the Portuguese Constitutional Court 🇵🇹 cites both the GLOBALCIT Citizenship Law Dataset (https://lnkd.in/dgXraZJA) and our recent paper with Luuk van der Baaren and Dr. Maria Gerdes...

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.

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Make sure to enter the 2026 GLOBALCIT Essay Award 🏆

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La cittadinanza in Italia - Guarda il documentario completo | ARTE in italiano Insaf Dimassi è arrivata in Italia dalla Tunisia a soli nove mesi. Ora ha 28 anni e non ha ancora la cittadinanza italiana. Come lei, oltre 900.000 studenti sono nella stessa situazione. È uno scandal...

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...

Govt proposes merit-based system for South African citizenship A revised white paper on citizenship has been gazetted for public comment

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

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Ius soli under siege: a comparative analysis of France and the United States - Comparative Migration Studies This article examines the recent restrictive shift in ius soli in France and the United States, focusing on the 2025 reforms enacted in the French island of Mayotte and through President Trump’s execu...

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.

Citizenship by descent for indigenous New Zealanders: recent debates - Globalcit This post discusses New Zealand’s Waitangi Tribunal’s inquiry into whether the restriction of transmission of citizenship by descent to one generation, contained in the New Zealand Citizenship Act 197...

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