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Jelena Dzankic

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Jelena Džankić is Co-Director of the Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT) and part-time professor at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.

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Reposted by Maarten Vink, Marie-Laure Basilien-Gainche, Jelena Džankić

GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 9d

🚨 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...

Reposted by Maarten Vink, Michelle Everson, Jelena Džankić

GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 15d

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...

Jelena Dzankic @jdzankic.bsky.social · 15d

Four, can this actually be implemented? In the US, the Congress normally passes visa-related regulation. But who knows, the world comes up with surprises every day…

Jelena Dzankic @jdzankic.bsky.social · 15d

Third, being “subject to the same procedures as an original visa applicant, including appropriate screening for public safety and national security” is not enough for these kinds of applications. There are risks of money laundering, which require additional measures

Jelena Dzankic @jdzankic.bsky.social · 15d

This makes one wonder about the policy purpose - gifting one million USD to the US and to Vanuatu or Malta (amounts are smaller there, but just for the sake of the argument) has a different economic impact

Jelena Dzankic @jdzankic.bsky.social · 15d

Second, the amount announced in February (5 million USD) is fivefold the amount in the EO. If one looks at other countries operating similar “gift” schemes, they require around 0.5 million and their economies are much smaller than the US one

Jelena Dzankic @jdzankic.bsky.social · 15d

Residency-by-investment is not uncommon around the world, but it is “gift” (rather than investment) based in a very specific subset of countries worldwide; often, nearly always, such countries have manifest problems of good governance

Jelena Dzankic @jdzankic.bsky.social · 15d

First, the policy justification is vastly nonsensical. Unlike the existing EB-5, which seeks to attract investors and businesspeople to transfer their activities to the US, this Gold Card introduces “a gift” in exchange for residency rights

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Jelena Dzankic @jdzankic.bsky.social · 15d

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

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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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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 25d

📢 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

Reposted by Jelena Džankić

Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 28d

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.

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Jo Shaw @joshaw.bsky.social · Sep 9

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 · Sep 9

📢 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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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · Sep 9

📢 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

Reposted by Maarten Vink, Jelena Džankić

GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · Aug 1

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

Reposted by Peter J. Spiro, Jelena Džankić

Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social · Apr 30

My blog on yesterday’s EU Court judgment outlawing “commercial” selling of EU citizenship verfassungsblog.de/the-eu-free-... at @verfassungsblog.de

The EU Free Market Does Not Extend to Citizenship

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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · Jul 10

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

Reposted by Peter J. Spiro, Jelena Džankić

Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · Jul 9

Hanging out in Budapest with a great citizenship crowd ❤️

@jdzankic.bsky.social @bronwenmanby.bsky.social @peterspiro.bsky.social

Pictured in Budapest from left to right: Maarten Vink, Patricia Jeronimo, Rainer Baubock, Bronwen Manby, Jelena Dzankic, Peter Spiro

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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · Jul 7

Great to back in Budapest to teach at this year's edition of ‪CEU's summer school on Contestations of Citizenship in Times of Global Democratic Backsliding. Looking forward to exchange insights with participants!

Thanks for the invitation @jdzankic.bsky.social & Szabolcs Pogonyi.

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Artan Mustafa @artanmustafa.bsky.social · Jul 3

The Recent Illiberal Turn and Social Policy in the Western Balkans
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Jelena Dzankic @jdzankic.bsky.social · Jun 29

The strangest thing happened to me today. I got a google alert that I have been quoted (a direct quote with name and affiliation) in a news outlet I never talked to on a topic I never talked about.

Anyone with a similar experience?

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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · Jun 19

🌍 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...

Global State of Citizenship Report - Global Governance Programme

globalgovernanceprogramme.eui.eu

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European University Institute @eui-eu.bsky.social · Jun 18

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European University Institute @eui-eu.bsky.social · Jun 18

📣 The Global State of Citizenship 2025 report is now live.

✍️ Authored by the GLOBALCIT team at the Global Governance Programme, the report draws on data from 191 countries and highlights key global trends in citizenship law.

Read the PR to learn more & download the report🔗 loom.ly/JeESa3g

Reposted by Marie-Laure Basilien-Gainche, Jelena Džankić

GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · Jun 16

Make sure you don't miss the official launch of the updated GLOBALCIT Dataset ✨️

This Wednesday, 18 June ⏰️🚨

More info and registration link 👇

The Robert Schuman Centre @eui-schuman.bsky.social · Jun 11

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...

Reposted by Kevin Jon Heller, Jelena Džankić

Peter Spiro @peterspiro.bsky.social · Jun 12

Trump Card is NOT coming unless there’s a statute to back it up. Or this is some side hustle/grift in which you get “Trump” “citizenship” and has nothing to do with the real thing.

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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · Jun 11

We'll have a stellar line up of speakers and commentators in next week's @globalcit.bsky.social webinar on the Global State of Citizenship.

incl:
@jdzankic.bsky.social @ashleymhollands.bsky.social @saragoodman.bsky.social @colinyeo.bsky.social

register here: www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

Speaker(s):

Maarten Vink (European University Institute)

Ashley Mantha-Hollands (European University Institute)

Luuk van der Baaren (European University Institute)

Thomas Huddleston (Migration Policy Group Brussels)

Sara Wallace Goodman (University of California)

Paola Alvarez (International Organization for Migration)

Catherine Harrington (Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights)

Colin Yeo (Garden Court Chambers)

Chair(s):

Jelena Džankić (European University Institute)

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The Robert Schuman Centre @eui-schuman.bsky.social · Jun 11

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...

Reposted by Jelena Džankić

Lorenzo Piccoli @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social · Jun 5

Our new article on Migration Studies shows that states used essential travel during Covid-19 to prioritise the mobility of their citizens over vulnerable groups.

This highlights the strength of nationality and the precarity of asylum as foundations for international movement in times of crisis.

Regulating human movement in a global pandemic: ‘Essential Travel’ during COVID-19

Abstract. Every government in the world introduced international travel restrictions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. For the most part, these restric

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Jelena Dzankic @jdzankic.bsky.social · Jun 4

The Invisible Card! I was just reminded of a Danish fairytale …

Jelena Dzankic @jdzankic.bsky.social · Jun 3

I wanted to write something about this, but I can’t find a single official document on the “Gold Card”, info on the legal basis or the procedure 🤷🏻‍♀️