Maarten Vink

Check IMISCOE PhD School 2026, 18 – 22 May 2026 at the Center for Migration and Societal Change, Eurac Research, Bozen/Bolzano, Italy

www.eurac.edu/en/institute...

@gocomments.bsky.social you will be interested

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I just sent off my voting ballot for the upcoming general elections in the Netherlands 🇳🇱.

Did you know that while there must be 100 thousands of Dutch citizens abroad, surprisingly few of those are voting. In the 2023 elections, about 70k of us voted from abroad. That’s one (1!) seat in parliament.

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Nieuwsbrief 12 oktober: Wat vinden de politieke partijen van onze thema's? De verkiezingen komen eraan, interview dubbele nationaliteit en een oproep wedertoelating

Actually, we know surprisingly little about the political experience and identification of the Dutch diaspora (literature suggestions welcome!).

For the practical issues that concern the Dutch diaspora, see eg SNBN (not on BlueSky?): www.nederlandersbuitennederland.nl/post/nieuwsb...

Agree voting from abroad likely a function of time since emigration & return intention. In my own case, I stopped working in the Netherlands only a few years ago and still feel connected (and have built up pension entitlements, among others). But this sense of connection may change over time.

*minor correction*

Ah interesting to know the number of registered voters has increased to 135k. Curious to see how many will vote.

And yes, I also just bumped into the CBS stats on citizens abroad. Seems I wasn’t too far off with my 1M guesstimate 😉

Nederlanders in het buitenland, 1 juli 2025 Deze publicatie bevat Nederlanders die in het buitenland woonachtig zijn per 1 juli 2025

I searched around a bit and according to @cbsstatistiek.bsky.social there are around 900k Dutch citizens residing outside the Netherlands, according to the non-resident register (yes, we also have a register on that 😉)

This should be lower bound estimate of actual number

www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/maatwe...

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...

Indeed, though not sure that is the most surprising. Given that registration is automatically renewed each election, 65% turnout doesn’t seem so low. But only 107k citizens abroad registered to vote does seem very low. We don’t know how many Dutch abroad, but would think at least a million…

I received my voting envelope in Portugal 🇵🇹 but once I received the ballot by email sent it all off from Italy 🇮🇹

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Want to know more about migrant voting?

Join upcoming @globalcit.bsky.social webinar on migrant electoral rights: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

Kiesraad stelt uitslag Tweede Kamerverkiezing 22 november 2023 vast De Kiesraad stelde op 1 december en 4 december 2023 de officiële uitslag van de Tweede Kamerverkiezing vast. Het opkomstpercentage was 77,7%. Van de 13.473.750 kiesgerechtigden brachten 10.475.203 hun...

See here results of 2023 elections: www.kiesraad.nl/actueel/nieu...

I just sent off my voting ballot for the upcoming general elections in the Netherlands 🇳🇱.

Did you know that while there must be 100 thousands of Dutch citizens abroad, surprisingly few of those are voting. In the 2023 elections, about 70k of us voted from abroad. That’s one (1!) seat in parliament.

Germany ends fast-track citizenship as mood on migration shifts Friedrich Merz’s conservatives had pledged to rescind legislation, which allowed citizenship in three years instead of five

Relevant development but this is crucial:

The rest of the new citizenship law, a signature achievement of previous gov, will remain intact despite conservative pledges to undo innovations such as dual citizenship and cut in the waiting period from 8 years to 5.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

A political cartoon shows a man resembling Donald Trump being spat on by the image of Alfred Nobel from a Nobel Prize medal. The man squints and grimaces as the liquid hits his face. The medal is bright gold, and Trump is dressed in a blue suit with a red tie. The artist’s signature, “Nico Cornill,” and social media handles appear at the bottom right.

The Nobel verdict! 💯🤣

Time to admire Ferdinand Hodler landscapes and portraits at the spectacular Kunsthaus Zürich.

Many thanks to all colleagues @ciseth.bsky.social for a lively discussion, excellent comments and a great trip to Zurich!

cis.ethz.ch/details.how-...

Many thanks to all colleagues @ciseth.bsky.social for a lively discussion, excellent comments and a great trip to Zurich!

cis.ethz.ch/details.how-...

In the big picture, I think this is a reasonable compromise, keeping the main elements of the 2024 “modernization“ reform in tact.

Reminder 🚨

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“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”.

“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”.

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.

The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”

It’s about control.

Joana Marques absolvida no processo judicial interposto pelos Anjos A juíza considerou não ser possível distinguir se o que provocou danos foi a polémica do vídeo de Joana Marques ou a própria transmissão original do hino interpretado por Nelson e Sérgio Rosado.

Muito bem

www.publico.pt/2025/10/03/i...