🚨 New Working Paper with R.Bauböck + @sumpierrez.bsky.social

We introduce the concept of incongruent suffrage.

This describes when there are voting rights but no candidacy rights for a group. Or vice versa.

The paper includes descriptive data & exploratory case studies.

doi.org/10.33774/aps...

Citizenship in the News 📰 🇩🇪

German parliament votes to get rid of fast-track citizenship: Friedrich Merz’s conservatives had pledged to rescind legislation, which allowed citizenship in three years instead of five

🔗 www.dw.com/en/german-pa...

🇳🇿 How did land ownership, settler colonialism & electoral design shape New Zealand’s democratic path?

Join Kate McMillan for this month's GLOBALCIT Seminar 📖

📅 Thu, 16 Oct 2025
⏰ 12:00–13:00
📍 Sala Triaria, Villa Schifanoia
🥗 Self-catered lunch after

Register 🔗 www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

Rwandan naturalisations increasing, apparently - though (like all African states) the numbers remain tiny #citizenshipinafrica
nationalnewsexpress.com/rwanda-grant...

Reminder 🚨

Dont forget to register for the official launch event of the new MER Dataset 👇👇

“The ‘lessons of history’ give us every reason to be wary of () this most recent effort to break with our established tradition of recognizing birthright citizenship and to make citizenship depend on the actions of one’s parents rather than () the simple fact of being born in the United States”.

Burkina Faso: New Code des personnes et le la famille adopted last month now promulgated. Nationality provisions remain amongst the most open on the continent, and Chapter 7 includes new provisions on rights of #stateless persons. Download text here: citizenshiprightsafrica.org/burkina-faso...

Citizenship in the News 🇺🇸📰

Federal appeals court rules Trump administration can’t end birthright citizenship: Adding to the mounting legal setbacks for the president’s birthright order.

apnews.com/article/birt...

🚨 Publication alert!

Thrilled to share our new #Global #Dataset on #Migrant #Electoral #Rights 🎉 Developed together with @wegschaider.bsky.social and #Rainer #Bauböck.

🔜 Join us online for the launch event on Oct 15 — details coming soon!

🚨 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...

Citizenship in the News 📰🇺🇲

Trump seeks expedited Supreme Court review of birthright citizenship executive order:
The administration wants definitive ruling on proposed citizenship restrictions.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...

A big thank you to all the colleagues, country experts, staff at electoral commissions, and other kind people that guided us or responded to our detailed questions. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Wow! It’s finally out there.

Together with @sumpierrez.bsky.social and R. Bauböck, I am happy to share this resource.

Stay tuned for news on
1. Our launch event
2. Our detailed dataset descriptor (conditional accept this morning!)
3. Another preprint paper showing more new results.

🧵 on Trump Gold Card, an investor visa leading to a residency permit for the United States 🇺🇸

Existing datasets focus on only one migrant group, exclude candidacy rights, or have a narrow scope.

🗳️ MER is the most comprehensive dataset on migrant suffrage to date

The 📊 Data + 📑 Codebook + 🌍 Factbook, are publicly available, contributing to research on global migrant inclusion/exclusion 🔎

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

Apatride Network &🇪🇪Yana Toom MEP host @europarl.europa.eu event on #statelessness. My focus: shortsightedness of citizenist approach to statelessness in the🇪🇺EU drawing on my @annualreviews.bsky.social artcile: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... @ceudeminst.bsky.social @globalcit.bsky.social

Citizenship in the News 🇮🇸

Icelandic citizenship increasingly difficult to obtain: As of next year, the fee for Icelandic citizenship will increase. The aim is to reduce the number of applications and ease pressure on the immigration office.

www.ruv.is/english/2025...

Our Co-Director Rainer Bauböck speaks at the launch of International IDEA’s Global State of Democracy 2025: Democracy on the Move 🌍📊 Presenting the new Migrant Electoral Rights dataset 🗳️

🔗 globalcit.eu/rainer-baubo...

Read the full report 👇

📢 Applications are open for SAF(E) 2026!

The Apatride Network invites you to join the 3rd Annual Statelessness Awareness Forum 🌎

🎯 Theme: Achieving Sustainable Impact
📍 Malta | 19–22 Mar 2026
⏰ Apply by Oct 31, 2025

Full details and registration form 🔗 apatride.eu/safe/

Revised citizenship test should ensure that new citizens are “fully assimilated and will contribute to America’s greatness.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/w...

Citizenship in the News 📰 🇹🇩

Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno has stripped two vocal anti-government activists of their Chadian nationality, accusing them of colluding with foreign powers

apanews.net/two-chadian-...

Are you planning to attend IMISCOE 2026 in Girona and working on immigrant naturalization?

@ninaca.bsky.social and I are inviting abstracts to put together a panel. Sends us your paper abstract if you are interested to join!

@migcitpol.bsky.social #MigCitSky

www.linkedin.com/posts/nina-c...

📣 Call for Papers 📣

Citizenship Challenges for Children and Young People: Barriers, Borders, and Bureaucracy in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives 🌍🚧📜

📝 Abstracts: 20 Oct 2025
📄 Drafts: 31 Mar 2026
📍 Workshop: Barcelona, 14–15 May 2026 (TBC)
✅ Final Paper: 17 Jul 2026

Full Details 👇