Ashley Mantha-Hollands

Restrictive citizenship reform in Finland in three acts: a paradigm shift driven by the radical right? - Globalcit This blog post discusses the ongoing restrictive changes to naturalisation policy in Finland. It links these policy changes to domestic and regional political dynamics, both of which involve the radic...

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@ninaca.bsky.social analyses how radical-right influence is driving a three-phase tightening of Finland’s naturalisation regime 🇫🇮

A shift that signals a harsher, more exclusionary model of Nordic citizenship across the region 🔍

Read 📖 shorturl.at/md5zK

Very happy to be continuing to work with @maartenpvink.bsky.social, @jdzankic.bsky.social, @joshaw.bsky.social, Rainer Bauböck 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 🇦🇹🇧🇪🇩🇰🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇱🇻🇳🇱🇵🇹🇸🇪🇬🇧

📰 Summary and Key Findings: tinyurl.com/56sknbxw
📖 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 🌎
> Focus on gender equality, immigrant inclusion, security of status
> Explore new data on regulations in 191 countries up to 2024

Online now at 🔗 loom.ly/JeESa3g

🌍 Just launched: The Global State of Citizenship 2025 report ⚡

Explore trends in citizenship laws across 191 countries (2020–2024), including dual citizenship, gender equality, immigrant inclusion & more 📊

🔗 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 now🔗 www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

Very excited about next week's launch of a ✨ 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...

Italy’s citizenship referendum: a chance to catch up with Europe In this article, experts in migration and citizenship policies, applied labor, and public economics discuss the upcoming referendum in Italy, examining its pot…

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 Italy’s citizenship laws with much of Europe.

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Lesbian mothers win legal status in Italy IVF ruling | CNN Italy’s Constitutional Court said on Thursday that same-sex female couples who use in vitro fertilization (IVF) abroad can both be legally recognized as parents in Italy, even if one is not the biolog...

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Had a great chat with @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social and @mpc-eui.bsky.social about the connections between migration and citizenship research ☺️

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!

Ending US birthright citizenship could have consequences for LGBTQ+ couples, lower-income parents and the surrogacy market If it comes into force, President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship could have consequences for people and processes in the US and abroad.

If it comes into force, President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship could have consequences for people and processes in the US and abroad.

Ending US birthright citizenship could have consequences for LGBTQ+ couples, lower-income parents and the surrogacy market If it comes into force, President Donald Trump’s 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 communities—affecting LGBTQ+ families, lower-income parents & surrogacy. EUI scholars @ashleymhollands.bsky.social & @jdzankic.bsky.social break it down in @theconversation.com 📌

🗞️ 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 “counts” as parent

Adding to 🧵 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 “counts” as parent.
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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 !

Ending US birthright citizenship could have consequences for LGBTQ+ couples, lower-income parents and the surrogacy market If it comes into force, President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship could have consequences for people and processes in the US and abroad.

@jdzankic.bsky.social and I wrote about the broader consequences of the end of birthright citizenship in the US...

Read here👇

theconversation.com/ending-us-bi...

@maartenvink.bsky.social super interesting! Thanks!

Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Chicanery - Globalcit Among his first actions as re-installed president, Donald Trump issued a January 20 executive order purporting to roll back territorial birthright citizenship in the United States. Under the order, US...

My thoughts on the birthright citizenship order at @globalcit.bsky.social - was going to go with “gambit” but seemed too dignified

Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Chicanery - Globalcit Among his first actions as re-installed president, Donald Trump issued a January 20 executive order purporting to roll back territorial birthright citizenship in the United States. Under the order, US...

Confused about Trump’s Executive Order? 🧐

🚨 It defies the Constitution 📜, challenges Supreme Court precedent ⚖️ & could strip citizenship from millions 🇺🇸

Our U.S Country expert @peterspiro.bsky.social breaks down the implications of Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Chicanery

🔗 tinyurl.com/wbdsrx3y

Thank you to everyone who joined us yesterday for this months seminar with @ashleymhollands.bsky.social

Great discussions and thoughts shared 💭

Very much looking forward to presenting this paper (co-authored with @jdzankic.bsky.social) on Thursday!

Please join us if you’re in Florence!

Birthright Citizenship Under the 14th Amendment Defined America. Will Trump End It? (Gift Article) The 14th Amendment made the U.S. a place where every child was born equal under the law. That might be about to change.

Not exactly glad to be part of this conversation on the coming assault on birthright citizenship, but always good to remind @nytimes.com readers that the 🇺🇸 is, in fact, not the only country in the 🌎 where children born on its territory have a right to citizenship

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Contestations of Citizenship in Times of Global Democratic Backsliding | CEU summer course

🌍💡 Apply now for the summer course "Contestations of Citizenship in Times of Global Democratic Backsliding" 📚🗳️

📅 Date: July 7–11, 2025
📍 Location: CEU, Budapest
📝 Application Deadline: February 14, 2025

Join global experts to explore how citizenship policies impact democracy 🌎🔍.

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Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT) - Globalcit GLOBALCIT is committed to fact-based and non-partisan analysis of citizenship laws and policies around the globe. From 2017 GLOBALCIT is the successor of EUDO CITIZENSHIP.

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Italy’s new surrogacy law could leave children at the risk of statelessness - Globalcit On 16 October 2024, Italy passed a law that would make it illegal for couples to go abroad to have a baby through an international surrogacy arrangement. The law, approved by the senate with 84 votes ...

My latest blog post about Italy’s abhorrent new surrogacy law and how it could put children at risk of statelessness…

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