Maarten Vink

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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?

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Thrilled to have my paper published today by @globalcit.bsky.social. There, I argue that citizenship is more than a single notion: it’s a spectrum of statuses that reveal the different, and sometimes stark, positions people occupy in constitutional states. Also, it’s open access!

📢 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 📚

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Trois afro-descendants obtiennent la nationalité béninoise Le gouvernement béninois a officiellement remis ce samedi 26 juillet 2025 les premières attestations de nationalité béninoise à trois Afro-descendants, en application de la loi sur la reconnaissance d...

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

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.

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Thank you for sharing @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social !

⚠️ 🇭🇺 Hungary’s new citizenship suspension law isn’t just legal reform, it’s revocation in disguise.

The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring.

Read it for yourself here:

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

Anti-immigrant bias in the German criminal justice system: who would have thought?

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Figure based on sequence analysis, identifying five pathways to external citizenship: 1) norm setters 2) dual citizenship only 3) external voting only 4) latecomers 5) norm resisters

Leveraging sequence analysis, we identify five dominant pathways in extending rights to dual citizenship and external voting:

1) norm setters
2) dual citizenship only
3) external voting only
4) latecomers
5) norm resisters

The extension of dual citizenship and external voting rights has been widely observed 🌎. Both trends contribute to the phenomenon of external citizenship, where citizens residing abroad hold rights to political participation irrespective of other transnational ties.

In a survey experiment, we asked a sample of Portuguese voters to imagine that a politician was being investigated for a corruption case—money in exchange for favoritism in a public tender. (1)

Picture with text “Não há wifi, conversem uns com os outros”

Etiqueta na praia 🏖️

Aid cuts are driving migrants to Europe, warns UN refugee chief Filippo Grandi calls on EU countries to support existing asylum facilities in Africa rather than create new schemes

Before the 2015 refugee crisis, the cash-strapped World Food Programme had to drop 1/3 of its Syrian refugees from food vouchers in its Middle Eastern programme. A few months later, arrival numbers in Europe increased. Now, 10 years later, all of this seems forgotten...

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Unpacking ‘birth tourism’: incidental citizenship and the diverse migration and reproduction trajectories of nonresident mothers in Canada Birth tourism in Canada is defined as the practice of giving birth on Canadian soil while on a nonresident visa for the express purpose of enabling the child to obtain Canadian citizenship. Propone...

Interesting new @scmrjems.bsky.social paper on 'birth tourism'.

> in-depth interviews with nonresident mothers who gave birth in Canada reveal that giving birth in Canada often ‘incidental’ to other personal and professional aspirations pursued across international borders.

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Uneven Ground: Inequality and Planetary Health Can we afford the consumption patterns of the super-rich? Or does human and planetary wellbeing require us to drastically reduce inequality?

The richest 1% emit 100x the greenhouse gas emissions of those in the world’s bottom 50%, notes @profkepickett.bsky.social. “Inequalities of income, wealth and political power sit at the heart of the environmental crisis” @equalitytrust.bsky.social #LSEInequalitiesBlog

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Exactly, you only know the answers to these kind of tests if you have prepared and are good at reproducing such ‘knowledge’.

Trump Administration Plans Changes to Skilled Worker Visas and Citizenship Tests

Free article: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u...

Trump Administration Plans Changes to Skilled Worker Visas and Citizenship Tests

Director USCIS says test to become US citizen was too easy and should change. 'Too easy to memorize answers'

Now 6 correct answers out of 10 civics Qs (from 100)

Change to 12 correct out 20 Qs

This is just selecting new citizens on how well they can memorize!

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u...

Great new paper @saragoodman.bsky.social and colleagues on how immigrant integration programmes improve language skills and employment opportunities, while simultaneously impede other aspects of integration, such as educational advancement and feelings of belonging.

#MigCitSky

My practical tips for designing and analyzing powerful experiments

My practical tips for designing, implementing, and analyzing powerful experiments. In today's blog I summarize a new paper I've written for a special issue on power calculations. A key message is that it does not make sense to talk of “the” power of an experiment. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years.

If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply!

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Title Pathways to External Citizenship: The Global Extension of Dual Citizenship and Voting From Abroad Authors Sebastian Umpierrez de Reguero and Maarten Vink Description The extension of dual citizenship and external voting rights over the past decades has been widely observed. Both trends contribute to the phenomenon of external citizenship, where citizens residing abroad hold rights to political participation irrespective of other transnational ties. Yet these trends have been studied in a disconnected manner. This is remarkable as the exercise of external voting requires nationals abroad to keep a legal link with the home country, while dual citizenship acceptance is high on the agenda of politically mobilized emigrant communities. In this paper, we make two original contributions. First, applying sequence analysis to a dataset covering 194 countries over 61 years (N=10,310), we identify five dominant pathways in extending rights to dual citizenship and external voting: 1) norm setters, 2) dual citizenship only, 3) external voting only, 4) latecomers, and 5) norm resisters. Second, we analyze the correlates of these pathways with a focus on the predominant political regime type. Democratic regimes are not more prone to be norm setters that adopt both forms of rights extension but are less likely to be norm resisters that do not adopt either. Partial norm extenders and latecomers are not significantly associated with a particular regime experience.

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.

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"There is no excuse for what’s happening in Gaza. This tragedy must end now, immediately and decisively. Every political hesitation, every attempt at justification of the horrors being committed under international watch, will forever be judged as a collective failure to preserve humanity in war.”

Gaza | The scale of human suffering and the stripping of human dignity have long exceeded every acceptable standard, both legal and moral.

This tragedy must end now.

Mirjana Spoljaric, ICRC President: ms.spr.ly/63327sGyPt

Such people have proven themselves productive community members.

We make ourselves better off by offering a pathway to citizenship. We harm ourselves by expelling them.

Arriving a bit late to bluesky, but here we are. Follow if you're interested in case commentary and news from across the range of topics that fall under the wide umbrella of human rights law, such as this, on the approach taken to article 2, police and suicide.

Governing Access to Nationality Through Paperwork: The Discretionary Uses of Documentation for Naturalisation in Belgium, France and the United Kingdom In this paper, we examine the discretionary uses of documentation in the implementation of naturalisation through a comparative perspective focusing on Belgium, France and the United Kingdom. We inve....

Needless to say, this is my favorite piece from this collection, on the discretionary uses of documentation for naturalisation in Belgium, France and the United Kingdom.

Lots of talk in Europe about restricting requirements, but in practice there are many hurdles already!

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Great work by @djsredanovic.bsky.social and Emilien Fargues and colleagues on the dynamics of migration policy beyond the law, focusing on everyday bureaucratic practices.

#MigCitSky