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YouTube video by Fondazione ISMU Rethinking citizenship in Europe: Policies, Challenges, and Perspectives.

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?....

Ousted Madagascan President Andry Rajoelina stripped of citizenship Andry Rajoelina, who was removed from power in a coup last week, had already acquired French nationality.

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 ⬇️

The Resurgence of Large-scale Deprivation of Nationality: The Case of Kuwait [Eric Fripp is a Barrister at 36 Public & Human Rights, part of the 36 Group, Gray’s Inn, London and Senior Visiting Fellow for the Refugee Law Initiative, School of Advanced Study, University …

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

Happening Tomorrow ⚡

If you are in Florence, don't miss the chance to join us for this month's GLOBALCIT Seminar ✨👇

⏰ Last call to register!

In a few hours, with @wegschaider.bsky.social and #RainerBauböck, we’ll dive into our global dataset of migrant electoral rights — exploring its #importance, #questions, and #key #findings.

More info: 👇👇👇

❗❗ Happening Tonight ❗❗

There is still time to register before we go live at 5pm CEST 👇

Don't forget to register for the official launch event of the new MER Dataset ⚡ 👇

Fans, critics say ‘many unanswered questions’ on Malaysia football scandal, as minister defends citizenship process Malaysia’s Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail told parliament that the government had followed the law and naturalised the seven players based on a provision in Malaysia’s constitution.

Citizenship in the News 📰🇲🇾

"Many unanswered questions" on Malaysia football scandal as minister defends citizenship process, saying the seven players were naturalised lawfully under the constitution ⚽

www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/fifa-ma...

Citizenship literature Archives - Globalcit

📚 New Citizenship Literature 🌍

🪪 Citizenship Renunciation without Emigration – Lior Erez
🌐 Protecting Nationals Abroad and the Reconceptualization of Sovereignty – Ioanna Pervou
🌏 Citizenship by Choice, Not Necessity – Nils Witte & Floris Peters

And many more 📖 tinyurl.com/5n7pr623

Title: Incongruent Suffrage Authors: Klaudia Wegschaider, Rainer Bauböck, Sebastián Umpierrez de Reguero Abstract: Candidacy rights and voting rights are not always congruent. Although voting rights are extensively studied, historical and contemporary incongruencies in suffrage have been widely overlooked. We propose a typology of suffrage incongruency that we apply to the enfranchisement of non-citizen residents and non-resident citizens—two categories recently at the center of enfranchisement scholarship and reform efforts. Using an original dataset that covers 165 countries and 61 years (1960-2020), we identify past and present voting-only incongruencies and candidacy-only incongruencies. Existing theories of suffrage extension focus on the voteshare maximizing logic of incumbents. However, these explanations cannot account for why only one part of suffrage is extended. With two exploratory case studies of Switzerland and the United Kingdom, we inductively arrive at potential explanations for why voting-only and candidacy-only incongruencies arise and resolve in democracies. We conclude with a research agenda on the causes and consequences of suffrage incongruencies.

🚨 New Working Paper with R.Bauböck + @sumpierrez.bsky.social

We introduce the concept of incongruent suffrage.

This describes when there are voting rights but no candidacy rights for a group. Or vice versa.

The paper includes descriptive data & exploratory case studies.

doi.org/10.33774/aps...

German parliament votes to get rid of fast-track citizenship – DW – 10/08/2025 Crossing fast-track citizenship off the books was a key migration-related election campaign promise from Chancellor Merz's CDU. Critics argue that this will deter highly qualified immigrants from comi...

Citizenship in the News 📰 🇩🇪

German parliament votes to get rid of fast-track citizenship: Friedrich Merz’s conservatives had pledged to rescind legislation, which allowed citizenship in three years instead of five

🔗 www.dw.com/en/german-pa...

🇳🇿 How did land ownership, settler colonialism & electoral design shape New Zealand’s democratic path?

Join Kate McMillan for this month's GLOBALCIT Seminar 📖

📅 Thu, 16 Oct 2025
⏰ 12:00–13:00
📍 Sala Triaria, Villa Schifanoia
🥗 Self-catered lunch after

Register 🔗 www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

Rwanda Grants Citizenship To 74 Foreign Nationals, Largest Number To Burundians - National News Expressnationalnewsexpress.com Thirty-two Burundian nationals have officially been granted Rwandan citizenship, in the largest single cohort at once.

Rwandan naturalisations increasing, apparently - though (like all African states) the numbers remain tiny #citizenshipinafrica
nationalnewsexpress.com/rwanda-grant...

Reminder 🚨

Dont forget to register for the official launch event of the new MER Dataset 👇👇

“The ‘lessons of history’ give us every reason to be wary of () this most recent effort to break with our established tradition of recognizing birthright citizenship and to make citizenship depend on the actions of one’s parents rather than () the simple fact of being born in the United States”.

Burkina Faso: New Code des personnes et le la famille adopted last month now promulgated. Nationality provisions remain amongst the most open on the continent, and Chapter 7 includes new provisions on rights of #stateless persons. Download text here: citizenshiprightsafrica.org/burkina-faso...

Federal appeals court rules Trump administration can't end birthright citizenship A federal appeals court in Boston has ruled the Trump administration cannot withhold citizenship from children born to people in the country illegally or temporarily.

Citizenship in the News 🇺🇸📰

Federal appeals court rules Trump administration can’t end birthright citizenship: Adding to the mounting legal setbacks for the president’s birthright order.

apnews.com/article/birt...

🚨 Publication alert!

Thrilled to share our new #Global #Dataset on #Migrant #Electoral #Rights 🎉 Developed together with @wegschaider.bsky.social and #Rainer #Bauböck.

🔜 Join us online for the launch event on Oct 15 — details coming soon!

🚨 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...

Trump seeks expedited Supreme Court review of birthright citizenship executive order President Trump is asking the Supreme Court for a definitive ruling on his reinterpretation of more than a century of legal precedent around birthright citizenship.

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 🇺🇸

Migrant Electoral Rights (MER) Dataset - Globalcit Suffrage is a central element of democracy. Over time, electoral rights have increasingly become available to migrants—both as non-citizen residents and as non-resident citizens. However, existing dat...

Existing datasets focus on only one migrant group, exclude candidacy rights, or have a narrow scope.

🗳️ MER is the most comprehensive dataset on migrant suffrage to date

The 📊 Data + 📑 Codebook + 🌍 Factbook, are publicly available, contributing to research on global migrant inclusion/exclusion 🔎

Migrant Electoral Rights (MER) Dataset - Globalcit Suffrage is a central element of democracy. Over time, electoral rights have increasingly become available to migrants—both as non-citizen residents and as non-resident citizens. However, existing dat...

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

Icelandic citizenship increasingly difficult to obtain - RÚV.is As of next year, the fee for Icelandic citizenship will increase from 27,000 to 60,000 ISK. The aim is to reduce the number of applications and ease pressure on the immigration office, where waiting t...

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...