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Grazie a Beda Romano per aver ripreso, nel suo blog per Il Sole 24 Ore, il mio intervento nell'audizione del 21 luglio davanti alla Commissione Affari Costituzionali della Camera dei deputati sulla proposta di legge A.C. 2124. bedaromano.blog.ilsole24ore.com/2026/08/02/l...
La vicenda di Ceuta, la reazione del governo Meloni e le restrizioni all'ottenimento della nazionalità italiana - Dal fronte di Bruxelles (ex GermaniE)
Molti commentatori hanno criticato in questi giorni il governo Meloni per la reazione avuta dinanzi agli avvenimenti di Ceuta, l’enclave spagnola in territorio africano. Sono d’accordo con molte delle...
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📣 Call for Papers CITREST Restitutive Citizenship and the Right to Return: Historical Justice, Spatiality, and the Boundaries of Belonging 📆 Abstract Deadline: 30 September 2026 ✏️ 200 words and a short bio 📍 Workshop, 27th and 28th of January 2027, at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK
Citizenship in the News 📰 🇰🇭 Cambodian law can render citizens stateless for ‘undermining national security’: Is the new law a legal tool to promote nationalism or a weapon to silence dissent? globalvoices.org/2026/07/19/c...
Cambodian law can render citizens stateless for ‘undermining national security’
“I know how easily words like ‘traitor’ and ‘enemy’ can be wielded by those in power to crush hope and sow fear.”
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Citizenship in the News 🇲🇿📰 The right to nationality in Mozambique: The application of ‘Jus soli’ in the fight against statelessness globalvoices.org/2026/07/30/t...
The right to nationality in Mozambique: The application of ‘Jus soli’ in the fight against statelessness
Without a legal identity, an individual is stripped of basic human rights, barred from formal education, blocked from healthcare, denied basic state services and rights, and vulnerable to institutiona...
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Citizenship in the News 📰 🌏 With comments by our Country Expert Christoph Sperfeldt Born Without a Country: In Southeast Asia, colonial legacies and citizenship policies continue to leave hundreds of thousands without legal nationality daily.jstor.org/born-without...
Born Without a Country - JSTOR Daily
In Southeast Asia, colonial legacies and citizenship policies continue to leave hundreds of thousands without legal nationality.
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❗New Entry Paola Cavalieri questions whether trust & sociability, the preconditions for interspecies politics in the debate, hold against the industrial agribusiness 🏭 Animal resistance is political action, doing politics with them starts with supporting that 🐾 📖 tinyurl.com/af5ybcbt
Political Animals: Should non-humans be recognised as co-citizens, denizens and self-governing political agents? - Page 3 of 3 - Globalcit
Kickoff contribution by Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka Comments by Maneesha Deckha, Paola Cavalieri Read More ...
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GLOBALCIT@globalcit.bsky.social · 4w ago📣 New Forum Debate❗ Kickstarted by Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka, who ask 🤔 Political Animals: Should non-humans be recognised as co-citizens, denizens and self-governing political agents❓ Stay tuned for the ensuing debate 💭 📖 tinyurl.com/5e6hn9ju
Citizenship in the News 📰🇮🇹🇪🇺 Italy sends citizenship-by-descent dispute to the Court of Justice: The Constitutional Court halted challenges to the Tajani Decree and asked whether restrictions affecting people born before the law took effect comply with EU law edition.cnn.com/2026/07/25/t...
The global battle for Italian citizenship rights just got a potential lifeline | CNN
Italy’s Constitutional Court has referred a strict new law restricting citizenship to Europe’s highest court, offering hope to thousands seeking a new nationality.
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Citizenship in the News 📰🇲🇾 Court Rules Malaysian Fathers Cannot Pass Citizenship to Children Born Out of Wedlock: Section 17 makes the foreign mother the only parent that counts, and the 2024 reform does not reach anyone already born www.imidaily.com/asia-pacific...
Court Rules Malaysian Fathers Cannot Pass Citizenship to Children Born Out of Wedlock - IMI Daily
Section 17 makes the foreign mother the only parent that counts, and the 2024 reform does not reach anyone already born.
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New Entry 📣 The Politics of Everyday Lives: A Feminist Perspective on What Counts as Political Maneesha Deckha argues that treating animal sociality as "underlying" politics reproduces the public/private divide Caregiving & family life are political acts in their own right 🐾🏡 tinyurl.com/5n74cw7j
Political Animals: Should non-humans be recognised as co-citizens, denizens and self-governing political agents? - Page 2 of 2 - Globalcit
Kickoff contribution by Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka Comments by Maneesha Deckha Read More ...
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GLOBALCIT@globalcit.bsky.social · 4w ago📣 New Forum Debate❗ Kickstarted by Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka, who ask 🤔 Political Animals: Should non-humans be recognised as co-citizens, denizens and self-governing political agents❓ Stay tuned for the ensuing debate 💭 📖 tinyurl.com/5e6hn9ju
Our GLOBALCIT Co-Director @maartenpvink.bsky.social testified before Italy's Constitutional Affairs Committee ⚖️ The proposed legal amendment, which would restrict access to citizenship for native-born immigrants' children & widen revocation grounds ⚖️ 🇮🇹 Read the full report 📝 tinyurl.com/49dpxw6j
It was an honor to speak today at the Constitutional Affairs Committee of the Italian Chamber of Deputies & share evidence from @globalcit.bsky.social, commenting on deeply problematic proposals to restrict access to citizenship for native-born immigrants' children, and widen grounds for revocation.
Useful summary of recent SA High Court decision finding min of home affairs in contempt for failing to respect earlier order to grant citizenship to a permanent resident applying for naturalisation www.cliffedekkerhofmeyr.com/en/news/publ...
Department of Home Affairs found to be in contempt for defying court order to grant citizenship
In the recent decision of Minister of Home Affairs and Another v Sakharov (2024-044391) [2026]ZAGPPHC 648 (22 June 2026), the Pretoria High Court had to determine whether the Department of HomeAffairs...
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Bronwen Manby@bronwenmanby.bsky.social · last mo.Link to court judgment citizenshiprightsafrica.org/en/south-afr...
Cambodian law can render citizens stateless for ‘undermining national security’ https://ift.tt/mjgk2LO
Cambodian law can render citizens stateless for ‘undermining national security’
“I know how easily words like ‘traitor’ and ‘enemy’ can be wielded by those in power to crush hope and sow fear.”
globalvoices.org
Citizenship in the News 📰🇮🇹 Tighter restrictions on citizenship: the Chamber of Deputies approves a fast-track procedure for examining the League’s bill en.ilsole24ore.com/art/restrict...
Tighter restrictions on citizenship: the Chamber of Deputies approves a fast-track procedure for examining the League’s bill
And FdI has put forward its proposal on repatriation, so that convicted migrants serve their sentences in their country of origin
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Summer Reading? 🤔 We have more than 800 entries in our Citizenship literature Database 🌏 Check out the recent additions 💰 Tax aspects of CBI 🇫🇷 🇦🇷 Minority precarity and diaspora citizenship 🇮🇳 The penal-legal mediation of migration as ‘infiltration’ 🔗 tinyurl.com/47zjfzwn
Citizenship literature Archives - Globalcit
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!! ECOWAS Court of Justice finds that failure of the Ghanaian authorities to renew a passport, while not formal deprivation of nationality, produced consequences 'comparable to those associated with de facto statelessness' and violated freedom of movement citizenshiprightsafrica.org/en/mary-omer...
Mary Omerere v. Republic of Ghana : Citizenship Rights in Africa Initiative
Everyone has the right to a nationality
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Curious about what GLOBALCIT has been up to these past few months? 🤔 Catch up with our July Spotlights Newsletter 💡 📖 tinyurl.com/bddzms4a You can register for Spotlights to stay up to date on the latest work of GLOBALCIT, sent quarterly 📝👓 🔗 tinyurl.com/2nwb36vh
GLOBALCIT Spotlights, July 2026
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✨ Essay Award Collection ✨ Barbara's winning paper is now available open-access in our new Working Paper 📖 Which includes the runner-up entries: Ivan Josipovic on threats to democratic membership & Ashish Shubhangi on belonging when algorithms decide ✏️ 🔗 tinyurl.com/42waeez7
GLOBALCIT@globalcit.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe are pleased to announce that Bárbara Mota has been awarded the 2026 Rainer Bauböck Essay Award for her essay “AI and Citizenship in Democratic Governance" 🏆 She received her prize in Florence, at the annual GLOBALCIT MPC conference 📝 Stay tuned for the published essay 📣 📖 tinyurl.com/s9a6p4c6
📣 New Forum Debate❗ Kickstarted by Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka, who ask 🤔 Political Animals: Should non-humans be recognised as co-citizens, denizens and self-governing political agents❓ Stay tuned for the ensuing debate 💭 📖 tinyurl.com/5e6hn9ju
Political Animals: Should non-humans be recognised as co-citizens, denizens and self-governing political agents? - Globalcit
Kickoff contribution by Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka Read More ...
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📰 Our GLOBALCIT Co-Directors Jo Shaw and Rainer Baubock comment on Al Jazeera on the Supreme Court Birthright Citizenship ruling US Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship: Who wins, who loses? 🇺🇸 www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/...
US Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship: Who wins, who loses?
Court struck down US President Trump's executive order abolishing it, but he has pledged to challenge the ruling.
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Citizenship in the News 🇮🇳📰 Nationality dispute: What does an Indian passport prove? A passport controversy has reignited debate over how citizenship is proven in India, with voter-list revisions exposing systemic gaps and raising fears of wrongful exclusion www.dw.com/en/nationali...
Nationality dispute: What does an Indian passport prove?
A passport controversy has reignited debate over how citizenship is proven in India, with voter-list revisions exposing systemic gaps and raising fears of wrongful exclusion.
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GLOBALCIT@globalcit.bsky.social · last mo.Citizenship in the News 📰🇮🇳 The Passport-Citizenship Debate: If a passport is not proof of citizenship, then what is? MEA says that a passport is a travel document, not a citizenship document. What does the law actually say? www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...
Citizenship in the News 📰🇪🇸 A reparations law granting descendants of Spaniards the right to citizenship has sparked a heated political debate as right-wing opposition figures accuse the government of trying to sway next year’s election with new voters. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Spain citizenship law for expatriates' descendants sparks voting quarrel
A reparations law granting descendants of Spaniards the right to citizenship has sparked a heated political debate as right-wing opposition figures accuse the government of trying to sway next year’s...
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Missed the Webinar🤔 The recording of the Webinar is now available to watch 👓 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=MilT...
Gender Justice? Thinking through the sex - citizenship nexus in the Middle East
YouTube video by GlobalGovernanceProgramme EUI
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GLOBALCIT@globalcit.bsky.social · 2mo agoWebinar Alert 📣 Gender Justice❓ Thinking through the sex - citizenship nexus in the Middle East Four speakers will examine how gender shapes access to citizenship across 🇮🇶🇯🇴🇱🇧🇸🇾 and what reform efforts have, and haven't changed ⚖️ 📆 June 9th 17:00 - 18:00 CET 🔗 Register www.eui.eu/events?id=58...
Wong Kim Ark mural unveiled in Chinatown ahead of Supreme Court birthright citizenship decision localnewsmatters.org/2026/06/26/w...
Wong Kim Ark mural unveiled in Chinatown ahead of Supreme Court birthright citizenship decision - Local News Matters
San Francisco's Chinatown on Friday morning celebrated the unveiling of a mural entitled "I Am an American," featuring birthright citizenship historical San Francisco Chinatown unveils the “I Am an Am...
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When you think you've heard it all. German courts have ruled that a family who entered Germany on German passports in 2020 had never been German citizens, because a 1908 marriage between a German colonial official and a Togolese woman was not legally valid under colonial law.
GLOBALCIT@globalcit.bsky.social · last mo.Citizenship in the News 🇩🇪 DW: A family from Togo has been stripped of their legally obtained German citizenship under a racist colonial law, leaving them stateless. Unable to return to 🇹🇬 as they were forced to give up their Togolese citizenship for the German one www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH0d...
Citizenship in the News 🇩🇪 DW: A family from Togo has been stripped of their legally obtained German citizenship under a racist colonial law, leaving them stateless. Unable to return to 🇹🇬 as they were forced to give up their Togolese citizenship for the German one www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH0d...
Germany revokes family's citizenship due to racist colonial law | DW News
YouTube video by DW News
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Citizenship in the News 📰🇦🇷 Argentina is preparing to launch South America's First Citizenship-by-Investment Program www.upi.com/Top_News/Wor...
Argentina bets on citizenship-by-investment program - UPI.com
Argentina is preparing to launch South America's first citizenship-by-investment program.
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Citizenship in the News 📰🇳🇪 Niger’s Junta Leader, Gen. Abdourahamane Tiani Strips Exiled Opposition Leader of Nationality: Action Highlights Repression, Increases Risk of Statelessness www.hrw.org/news/2026/06...
Niger Strips Exiled Opposition Leader of Nationality
Niger’s junta leader, Gen. Abdourahamane Tiani, signed on June 11 a decree provisionally stripping Nigerien nationality from Mariama Djibrine, a leading opposition figure living in exile.
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Citizenship in the News 📰🇺🇬 Museveni appoints acting foreign minister as dual citizenship row deepens: www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/eas...
Museveni appoints acting foreign minister as dual citizenship row deepens
President Museveni has appointed an acting foreign minister as questions over the eligibility of two Cabinet nominees prolong uncertainty at the ministry.
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