On 20 March 2019, the “Forum for Democracy”, established in 2015, became the largest party in the Dutch Senate. Some turmoil arose when...

It is easy to mix up the European Union and the Council of Europe. Even Jeremy Corbyn was confused earlier this year, claiming in an...

When Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, faced sexual assault allegations in Sweden in 2012 he sought asylum in the Ecuadorian...

Having previously reported on the relation between citizenship and ethnicity as well as secular and religious citizenship, we should add...

The international human rights regime rapidly gained ground after WWII. The situation of all postwar refugees, many of them also...

Earlier this year we saw that citizenship can mean different things in different contexts. Conceptions of citizenship can be thick and...

We have previously explained that UNHCR takes a multipronged approach to helping stateless persons and combating statelessness,...

States may actively pursue multiple nationality as a goal between different peoples, thus reflecting a development whereby individuals...

Last week we discussed UNHCR’s role in protecting stateless persons. In doing so, of course, it first needs to be determined who is...

We previously discussed different dimensions of citizenship and touched on ethnic and civic conceptions to shape citizenship policies. A...

In discussing the relation between migration and statelessness, we already saw that in 2006 the Member States of the Executive Committee...

De facto travel documents are documents which are adequate to cross borders lawfully as well as to reside in a country, but which have no...

In his chapter in the Oxford Handbook on Citizenship, David Scott Fitzgerald confirms our earlier conclusion in relation to racialised...

We touched on people living a nomadic lifestyle when discussing the citizenship status of the Roma population in Europe, part of which...

A camouflage passport is a document, intended to give the impression that it is a tangible passport, delivered in the name of a country...

Oxana Shevel, in her chapter in the Oxford Handbook on Citizenship on fifteen successor states of the former Soviet Union, argues that in...

We have seen before that cultural practices such as polygamy can act as a barrier to acquiring citizenship. Another barrier is...

During the Soviet era migrants from other parts of the USSR, mainly ethnic Russians, Belarussians and Ukrainians migrated to Latvia and...

In the triptych Micheletti, Kaur and Rottmann we discussed the position of the Court of Justice of the European Union over the last 25...

Citizenship, nationality and identity are receiving considerable attention, especially in relation to global phenomena such as...