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Most citizenship applications put on hold during elections - The Copenhagen Post The Danish Ministry of Immigration and Integration has put some applications for citizenship on hold after the announcement of the parliamentary election. The ministry said processing will resume once...

Citizenship in the News 📰🇩🇰

Most citizenship applications put on hold during elections: The ministry said it will generally not process applications for Danish citizenship until after the election, when the conditions for naturalization cases are clarified

cphpost.dk/2026-03-09/l...

@globalcit.bsky.social report summarising recent citizenship law developments in 12 Eastern European EU member & candidate states shows how citizenship policy is increasingly shaped by security concerns, particularly in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine hdl.handle.net/1814/94610

Three men deported by US file legal case against Eswatini over detention The men, sent to Africa after completing criminal sentences in the US, are from Cuba, Jamaica and Yemen

Complaint filed with the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights in relation to three men originally from Jamaica, Yemen and Cuba deported to Eswatini from the US
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Latest articles from Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Browse the latest articles and research from Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

New JEMS Special Issue: Citizenship in the Global Struggles for Democracy edited by @jdzankic.bsky.social Eleanor Knott & Szabolcs Pogonyi - articles on Abkhazia, Taiwan, Kenya & Tanzania, Kosovo & Albania, Kuwait, India, Moldova, Hungary, and Serbia & Montenegro
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjms20/0/0

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Make sure to submit your entry for the 2026 Rainer Bauböck Essay Award ❗

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The eligibility criteria is recent graduates with a master’s or equivalent degree, current doctoral researchers, or those within 3 years after the award of the doctorate, from any discipline.

Submit your essay by 31 March 2026 for the @globalcit.bsky.social – Rainer Bauböck Essay Award.

This award is sponsored by the funds of the City of Vienna 2023 Prize in Humanities and Social Sciences awarded to Rainer Bauböck for his work on citizenship and democratic theory.

Looking for some writing inspiration for March? 🤔

Make sure to submit your entry for the 2026 Rainer Bauböck Essay Award ❗

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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
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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...

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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
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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

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📣 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...