Is there “a right to leave one’s country?”
FCI has dedicated many articles to migration, but we have so far never addressed the question whether there is something as “a right to...
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Flexible citizenship and highly skilled migrants: Indians expats in the Netherlands
We’ve noted earlier that the two largest diasporas in the world are formed by Indians and Chinese. The creation of diasporas is not a...
How widespread is racial profiling?
A difficult question to answer in migration matters is to what extent the police are allowed to act on substantiated presumptions and...
Are we going to face a climate “apartheid”?
Carbon is being produced at a rate 100 times quicker than any time before and the situation has only deteriorated further since the...
Can humanity establish a new nation in Outer Space?
With most of the territory of the earth governed by one nation state or another, we saw last week that some of the world’s major...
Why the sudden rise of African migration to the US?
Last month we reported on the sharp rise of the number of migrants from Central American countries to the US. Rather unexpectedly, there...
The Turkish diaspora in Germany
As a follow up to our posts on Turkish investor citizenship and the recent elections in Turkey, we discuss recent scholarship by Susan...
US Supreme Court confronts Trump Administration in census decision
In their analysis of the US Supreme Court’s decision from 27 June 2019 dealing with the legality of adding the question “Is this person a...
What explains the popularity of the Australian immigration model?
Over the last few years political parties in several European countries have been advocating the “Australian model” as a way to prevent...
Is authoritarian populism on the retreat after elections in Turkey?
Last week Ekrem Imamoglu of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) won the position of mayor of Istanbul by obtaining 54% of the votes – an...
Should ISIS affiliates be repatriated?
When Islamic State (ISIS) announced the formation of a caliphate on 29 June 2014, it was clear that the citizenship status of those who...
Access to citizenship and the Sustainable Development Goals
In a policy brief prepared by the European Network on Statelessness last May, in preparation of the High-Level Political Forum of 9-18...
Migration to the United States: Mexico vs. Central America
The New York Times recently reported that in April, more than 109,000 people (often travelling as families) were apprehended at or near...
Have we entered the “Asian century”?
According to UN data, Asia is currently home to more than half the world’s population and 21 of the world’s largest cities are in Asia....
The African Continental Free Trade Area
As mentioned in a previous article published by the Future Citizen Institute, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) was...
Eurostat statistics show naturalisation rates in the EU
Every year Eurostat, the statistical bureau of the European Union, publishes statistics on citizenship matters in the different EU member...
Is multiculturalism on the rise in East Asia?
Japan is probably the most-cited example of a country experiencing a rapid population decline. Previous Future Citizen Institute episodes...
What is global citizenship education?
Global citizenship is the idea that instead of being the citizen of any particular country in the world, that everyone is a citizen of...
“To wall or not to wall”. Cross-border citizenship as an alternative in the US-Mexico border region?
On 16 May, President Trump announced his plans for a major overhaul of the US immigration system. His “merit-based, high-security plan”,...
Transnationalism vs. Post-nationalism
While we have extensively discussed dual citizenship and EU citizenship, we have so far neglected their relation with the concepts of...