In a recent Delmi-GLOBALCIT Policy Brief entitled How Citizenship Laws Differ: A Global Comparison, the two partners ‘have calculated 12...

At least two normative objections seem to exist against the claim that nation-state citizenship needs to rely on a ‘genuine link’ between...

In many European countries citizenship tests, often consisting of an assessment of immigrants’ civic knowledge and language skills, have...

Today we draw attention to two pieces of academic scholarship that partly fill the knowledge gap of the Chinese and Indian diaspora, the...

It was seen over the last few weeks that birthright citizenship in the United States has come under attack under the Trump...

During a time when birthright citizenship is under attack in the US, the New York Times reports that a proposed law in Ireland would...

In April 2013, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, which reports to the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the...

While citizenship has been called an elusive phenomenon, Katherine Tonkiss and Tendayi Bloom have argued that – surprisingly – the term...

We have explored the issue of nationality as a human right before, namely how it used to signify an allegiance to a ruler or territory...

To end global statelessness within 6 years, an ambitious goal set by UNHCR under its Global Action Plan 2014-2024, the Southeast Asian...

David Davis, Boris Johnson, Suella Braverman, and Dominic Raab have resigned in response to the “lose-lose” Brexit deal that the cabinet...

The 17th Karmapa, one of the top contenders to succeed the Dalai Lama, has received the citizenship of Dominica by investment. His...

Two Latin terms frequently come up in discussions on nationality and citizenship – ius sanguinis and ius soli. These principles refer to...

Last month, the first gender-neutral passport containing the gender designation X was issued by the Netherlands to a 57-year old who...

In 2017, Saudi Arabia granted citizenship to a robot named Sophia. Despite arguments that neither human society nor technology is ready...

While the Westphalian age of sovereign nations that we previously discussed is characterized by a close intertwinement of democracy,...

Armand Arton is the founder and CEO of Arton Capital and executive partner at Arton Investments. Like Kylin Prime Group, Arton Capital...

We have previously seen that in the classic analysis of T.H. Marshall citizenship consists of civil, political and social rights. We have...

The most recent issue of China’s World – a twice yearly journal published by the Future Citizen Institute examining the many issues...

Trump seeks to end birthright citizenship with an executive order, challenging a constitutional amendment that has been in place for more...