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16/10/2023

The applications are now open for Statelessness Awareness Forum (Europe)! 🥳 It is the first ever stateless-led international forum, designed to help raise awareness on statelessness for university and young professionals in the EU. You can apply here:

Apatride Network is planning the first ever stateless-led international forum, titled Statelessness Awareness Forum (Europe), to be held on 20-24 March of 2024, in Alicante, […]

04/10/2023

NEW!!!! Forum contribution

"Too Hot or Too Cold: Pledges of Allegiance and the Liberal Dilemma"

Lior Erez responds to Patty Lenard's defence of the pledge of allegiance from newly naturalised citizens

https://globalcit.eu/swearing-loyalty-should-new-citizens-pledge-allegiance-in-a-naturalisation-oath/2/

12/09/2023

📢 Our colleagues at the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria are looking for a Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Climate-Related Migration and Displacement. The deadline for applications is 15 September 2023. For more details, see below:

The University of Victoria. The UVic Edge is where dynamic learning and vital impact meet, in Canada's most extraordinary environment for discovery and innovation.

04/07/2023

✏️New blogpost alert: Bronwen Manby examines a recent decision of 🇿🇦 Supreme Court of Appeal overturning automatic loss of citizenship. Drawing on other recent judicial decisions in Africa, she identifies regional trends on right to dual citizenship.

Read here:

This blog examines the recent decision of the South African Supreme Court of Appeal overturning automatic loss of citizenship without ministerial approval to retain dual citizenship. The post situates the decision amongst the wider set of decisions by African courts on the right to dual citizenship,...

08/06/2023

📢WATCH: New video explainer from our collaborator Elisa Arcioni (Associate Professor, University of Sydney Law School) on the proposal for a First Nations Voice that has been put to the Australian electors at a referendum this year:

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21/03/2023

🎇New contribution to our forum debate "Weaponized Citizenship: Should international law restrict oppressive nationality attribution?

Lior Erez highlights some difficulties in identifying what (exactly) makes citizenship weaponization wrong

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Kickoff contribution by Neha Jain. Comments by Jelena Džankić, Eleanor Knott, Lindsey N. Kingston, Ramesh Ganohariti, Timothy Jacob-Owens, Bronwen Manby, Peter Spiro, Rainer Bauböck, Noora Lori, and Lior Erez Read More ...

17/01/2023

📣New contribution to Forum debate: Bronwen Manby contributes to our GLOBALCIT Forum 'Should international law restrict oppressive nationality attribution' with a post on 'Weaponization of citizenship: two wrongs won't make a right (or respect rights)'. Do read and share!

Kickoff contribution by Neha Jain. Comments by Jelena Džankić, Eleanor Knott, Lindsey N. Kingston, Ramesh Ganohariti, Timothy Jacob-Owens, and Bronwen Manby Read More ...

12/01/2023

📢New working paper alert: Bronwen Manby writes on post-colonial citizenship and decolonisation as a turning point. Read it here:

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15/12/2022

⏰New citizenship literature this week:

✅Andrés Besserer Rayas and Victoria Finn on Mexican external voting from the US

✅Cassandra Burke Robertson and Irina Manta on adopting nationality

✅Elizabeth L. Rhoads on racialized citizenship in Myanmar

Read them all in our repository here:

Turning rights into ballots: Mexican external voting from the US Victoria Finn and Andrés Besserer Rayas Turning rights into ballots: Mexican external voting from the US, Territory, Politics and Governance 2022 Read More …

14/12/2022

📢New on the blog: Samuel D. Schmid writes about Germany's proposed citizenship law and its implications for immigrants' access to citizenship. Reposted from Verfassungsblog

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Germany’s government has proposed to ease immigrants’ access to citizenship. The opposition is not happy with this. In this piece, Samuel Schmid argues that their concerns are unfounded. Overall, the new law should not be counted as a devaluation but instead as an upgrade of the democratic value...

12/12/2022

📢We're thrilled to announce that Timothy Jacob-Owens's contribution to our forum debate 'Weaponized Citizenship: Should international law restrict oppressive nationality attribution', entitled 'Imperial citizenship and the weaponization of international law' has now been published.

Read it here:

Kickoff contribution by Neha Jain. Comments by Jelena Džankić, Eleanor Knott, Lindsey N. Kingston and Ramesh Ganohariti Read More ...

08/12/2022

📢Symposium alert: We're delighted to announce a new review symposium on Dieter Gosewinkel's () stunning book 'Struggles for Belonging: Citizenship in Europe, 1900-2020', featuring comments by Maarten Prak, Rainer Baubock, Jo Shaw, and Daniela Luigia Caglioti. The entire symposium is available here:

Introduction by Dieter Gosewinkel ; comments by Daniela Luigia Caglioti, Rainer Bauböck, Maarten Prak and Jo Shaw