The Future Citizen Institute has previously reported on the phenomenon of citizenship tests as a condition for naturalisation. However,...

EU citizens’ rights in the UK are still uncertain, even after Theresa May says 95% of Brexit deal is settled. The Prime Minister has...

This month we have seen two noteworthy developments in the discussion on climate change. First, on 8 October 2018 the Intergovernmental...

In a previous post we have seen that the starting point under international law with regard to citizenship is that each State is...

The long-distance naturalisation that we have previously reported on is naturally only a subcategory of ordinary naturalisation – that...

It is often alleged that the dominance of neoliberalism in contemporary society has not only resulted in deregulation, the dismantling of...

Several countries on different continents provide explicitly in their legislation for the possibility to grant of honorary citizenship,...

The European Union is perhaps the best-known example of a supranational structure challenging the autonomy of the sovereign nation state....

Today we continue our series on regional blocs offering a form of supranational citizenship to citizens of its composing members. Having...

A previous post by the Future Citizen Institute has shown that in a world consisting of formally equal nation states, not all passports...

We have previously discussed the concept of the ‘genuine link’ as developed in the 1955 Nottebohm case – that is, the requirement of an...

The Future Citizen Institute has previously reported on the role of passports, and how holding different citizenships (especially of...

On 21 March 2018 a majority of the Dutch population – composed primarily of the young and city-dwellers – voted “no” in a non-binding...

Nationality law was traditionally a very stable field of law. We have only recently witnessed an increasing instrumentalisation as well...

While we currently cannot imagine a world without passports and travel documents, Sara Dehm’s forthcoming contribution to International...

Any conceptualization of a future ‘global citizenship’ starts with how it differs from earlier forms of citizenship. In this respect, the...

At the Future Citizen Institute we are concerned with conceptualizing and understanding the idea of citizenship in the 21st century....

Migration and citizenship studies are often said to suffer from what some have called an ‘Atlantic’ or ‘Global North’ bias, meaning that...

This summer marked the 150th anniversary of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, which was ratified on 9 July 2018 and secured...

This week the world commemorates the global financial crisis of 2008, which was triggered by the collapse of the investment bank Lehman...