📣 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
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Big opportunities for researchers 🌍 We are investing nearly €400 million to help researchers share their work and collaborate with the best scientific teams across the EU. The 2026 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships are now open. More: link.europa.eu/PNxpxw
What is citizenship in times of crisis? In a new #OpenAccess article with @jdzankic.bsky.social and @ashleymhollands.bsky.social, we analyse data from 204 countries & territories during COVID-19 1/4🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Configurations of citizenship governance: membership asymmetries in times of crisis
What happens to citizenship governance when states must decide whom they will protect during a crisis? This article highlights the highly variegated and context-specific nature of citizenship gover...
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Very excited to announce the publication of, "Configurations of citizenship governance: membership asymmetries in times of crisis," with @jdzankic.bsky.social and @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Crisis illuminates how the governance of citizenship is variegated...
Configurations of citizenship governance: membership asymmetries in times of crisis
What happens to citizenship governance when states must decide whom they will protect during a crisis? This article highlights the highly variegated and context-specific nature of citizenship gover...
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join @filipkostelka.bsky.social @zsofia-v.bsky.social Imogen Bayley & me in Florence @eui-eu.bsky.social or via Zoom on 16 April, as we discuss the implications of the #HungarianElection 🇭🇺🗳️ Register here: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...
Thank you to @jdzankic.bsky.social @ellieknott.bsky.social and Szabolcs Pogonyi and the JEMS editorial team for herding cats and pulling this special issue together
Very pleased to announce the publication of our recent special issue on "Citizenship in the global struggles for democracy", co-edited with Jelena Džankić and Szabolcs Pogonyi @scmrjems.bsky.social @lsemethodology.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Citizenship in the global struggles for democracy
This Special Issue explores the interplay between citizenship and democratic hardships in a global context. The ten contributions to this collection reflect on the range of contestations of citizen...
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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
Latest articles from Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Browse the latest articles and research from Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
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Looking for some writing inspiration for March? 🤔 Make sure to submit your entry for the 2026 Rainer Bauböck Essay Award ❗ Full details below 👇
GLOBALCIT@globalcit.bsky.social · 10mo agoCalling all early-career #Citizenship researchers 📣 Submit your entry for the 2026 GLOBALCIT – Rainer Bauböck Essay Award 🏆 The ❓ How will Artificial Intelligence transform membership, rights and practices of citizenship? 🏅 €1,000 + publication 📖 ➡️ tinyurl.com/bde6wn9w
Really looking forward to this @globalcit.bsky.social webinar in two weeks!
GLOBALCIT@globalcit.bsky.social · 7mo agoWebinar 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
Join us at the EUI on 14-15 May!
GLOBALCIT@globalcit.bsky.social · 7mo ago📣 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
Such a cool example to use in a class about citizenship by exceptional merit! *there are other articles on the topic but this one also has some quotes on the grounds for naturalisation
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 7mo agoGeorge Clooney fires back at Trump after US president mocks his French citizenship
NEW Publication featuring a great lineup of citizenship scholars!! :) “The Archipelago Capitalism of Citizenship-By-Investment”, Comparative Political Studies, lnkd.in/dQPG4Q7J @maartenpvink.bsky.social @globalcit.bsky.social @eui-ggp.bsky.social
I was looking for updates on the 'gold card' but @jdzankic.bsky.social had already done so two months ago. We also have confirmation that the US government is currently floating one of the most blatantly money-grabbing approaches to gold passport/residence as it is a 'gift' rather than 'investment'
Jelena Dzankic@jdzankic.bsky.social · 10mo agoI’ve been waiting for this since February, and it is quite a bit of an anticlimax. See 🧵 for a few thoughts on the #goldcard, #residence, #US www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
In this blog post, I explore the ongoing restrictions on Finnish citizenship, examining their causes as well as implications for applicants and the Nordics. Thank you @globalcit.bsky.social @koneensaatio.fi and @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social
GLOBALCIT@globalcit.bsky.social · 8mo agoNew Blog Alert 📣 @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
GLOBALCIT December Seminar ⚡ Our very own @maartenpvink.bsky.social and @jdzankic.bsky.social will present new data on whether CBI programmes, despite the criticism, have achieved their objective of fostering economic growth 🤔 📅 4 Dec, 12:00–13:00 📍 Sala Triaria 🔗 tinyurl.com/3cmmfy94
Do citizenship-by-investment programmes increase foreign direct investment?
This seminar will present new data on whether CBI programmes, despite the criticism, have achieved their objective of fostering economic growth.
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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
Delighted to see our new @globalcit.bsky.social study on the conditions for #citizenship acquisition by immigrants and their descendants, out now in #openaccess!
GLOBALCIT@globalcit.bsky.social · 9mo agoNew 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
Applications are now open for the UCD Iseult Honohan Doctoral Scholarship 2026! 📚 Full PhD funding in Politics & International Relations or Quantitative and Computational Social Science at University College Dublin 🕔 Deadline: 30 Jan 2026, 5 pm (Dublin) www.ucd.ie/spire/study/...
Iseult Honohan Doctoral Scholarship - UCD School of Politics and International Relations
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Citizenship in the News 📰🇪🇸 Spain grants citizenship to descendants of civil war’s International Brigades: About 32,000 volunteered to fight Franco dictatorship www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Spain grants citizenship to descendants of civil war’s International Brigades
About 32,000 volunteered to fight Franco dictatorship, including 2,500 men and women from Britain and Ireland
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Last week, I presented my research at the University of Rijeka (@unirijeka.bsky.social) during an event celebrating Croatia's accession to @eui-eu.bsky.social. I am grateful to the session's chair, Tena Prelec (@tenaprelec.bsky.social), & the audience for great questions & engagement.
🚨 Webinar Alert 🚨 Join us for the online launch of the new Migrant Electoral Rights (MER) Dataset, the most comprehensive global dataset on migrant suffrage to date 🌐 📅 Oct 15 | 17:00 CEST 📍 Online 🔗 Register www.eui.eu/events?id=58...
Explore the new GLOBALCIT Migrant Electoral Rights (MER) Dataset ❗🌐 🌍 165 countries (1960–2020) 📊 488 indicators 🗳️ voting & candidacy rights of non-citizen residents + non-resident citizens 🏛️ Differentiates election type (legislative, executive, referendum) & level 📥: tinyurl.com/yv37nj7m
Migrant Electoral Rights (MER) Dataset - Globalcit
Suffrage is a central element of democracy. Over time, electoral rights have increasingly become available to migrants—both as non-citizen residents and as non-resident citizens. However, existing dat...
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I’ve been waiting for this since February, and it is quite a bit of an anticlimax. See 🧵 for a few thoughts on the #goldcard, #residence, #US www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
The Gold Card
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
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📢 New Open-Access Working Paper! @artsofdenial.bsky.social & Rainer Bauböck ask: Citizenship as Reparations: Should the Victims of Historical Injustice Be Offered Membership❓ 13 authors reply 💬, exploring questions of justice, colonialism, nation-building, and more 🌍 📖 🔗 tinyurl.com/dz8ht87z
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Great to see @globalcit.bsky.social’s Rainer Bauböck at the launch of the @internationalidea.bsky.social Global State of Democracy Report 2025. Emphasising the important implications of out-of-country voting in times of democratic recession both in migrant origin countries and destination countries.
International IDEA@internationalidea.bsky.social · 11mo ago🔴 We are LIVE from Stockholm! Tune in for the Global Launch of @internationalidea.bsky.social's #GSoD2025 Report that offers evidence-based trend analysis and lessons from across the world, highlighting where democratic resilience remains. #DemocracyForAll youtube.com/live/fom0bzA...
Delighted to have coordinated this book symposium, showcasing Engin Isin's important contribution to citizenship studies and citizenship theory. Thank you to all the reviewers!
GLOBALCIT@globalcit.bsky.social · 11mo ago📢 New Book Review Symposium 📚 Engin Isin’s Citizenship: New Trajectories in Law explores the paradox of human vs citizenship rights & asks if a planetary citizenship can emerge 🤔 Isin reflects on 35 years of struggles, rights, and paradoxes shaping modern citizenship 🔗 tinyurl.com/yed9efba
📢 New Book Review Symposium 📚 Engin Isin’s Citizenship: New Trajectories in Law explores the paradox of human vs citizenship rights & asks if a planetary citizenship can emerge 🤔 Isin reflects on 35 years of struggles, rights, and paradoxes shaping modern citizenship 🔗 tinyurl.com/yed9efba
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That’s a Wrap 🎬 David Owen & Rainer Bauböck respond to 13 entries in the Citizenship as Reparations Debate 🤔 Does why a state offers reparative citizenship matter as much as to whom? 🎭 Can symbolic reparation mask selective immigration? ⚖️ When is it a moral duty, not just a choice? 🔗 t.ly/UPMSb
Citizenship as Reparations: Should the victims of historical injustice be offered membership? - Page 15 of 15 - Globalcit
Kickoff contribution by David Owen and Rainer Bauböck. Comments by Jocelyn Kane and Patti Tamara Lenard, Ashley Mantha-Hollands, Timothy Jacob-Owens, Lior Erez, Peter Spiro, Christoph Sperfeldt, Alfon...
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GLOBALCIT@globalcit.bsky.social · last yr.New Entry ✨ @jdzankic.bsky.social warns that reparative citizenship 🛂 isn’t always about justice ⚖️ It’s selective (who counts), transactional (status-for-benefit), and strategic (state interest first) 🇪🇸🇲🇽🇱🇷 A passport 🛂 isn’t always reparations, sometimes it’s geopolitics 🌍 🔗 tinyurl.com/2v2n5v4k
New Entry ✨ @jdzankic.bsky.social warns that reparative citizenship 🛂 isn’t always about justice ⚖️ It’s selective (who counts), transactional (status-for-benefit), and strategic (state interest first) 🇪🇸🇲🇽🇱🇷 A passport 🛂 isn’t always reparations, sometimes it’s geopolitics 🌍 🔗 tinyurl.com/2v2n5v4k
Citizenship as Reparations: Should the victims of historical injustice be offered membership? - Page 14 of 14 - Globalcit
Kickoff contribution by David Owen and Rainer Bauböck. Comments by Jocelyn Kane and Patti Tamara Lenard, Ashley Mantha-Hollands , Timothy Jacob-Owens , Lior Erez, Peter Spiro, Christoph Sperfeldt, Alf...
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GLOBALCIT@globalcit.bsky.social · last yr.✨ New Forum Debate Entry ✨ @bronwenmanby.bsky.social argues that reparative citizenship in Africa 🇳🇦🇬🇭🇧🇯🇱🇷🇸🇱🇬🇼 often stretches beyond state responsibility for historic wrongs ⚖️ Instead, it reconnects diasporas 🌍, recognises shared histories, and boosts investment & soft power 💼 🔗 tinyurl.com/2sd3kh77