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

In January 2019, it was announced that Bulgaria aims to end its citizenship by investment programme. Two months later, on 22 March 2019,...

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

The new Implementing Decree on the legal regime for entry, stay, exit and removal of foreign citizens from the national territory was...

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...

Apart from many other troubles, refugees are regularly subject to two crucial, interconnected problems. One is financial exclusion, the...

In September 2018 a Presidential Decree “Regulation on the Amendments to the Regulation on the Implementation of the Turkish Citizenship...

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

In January 2019, the National Audit Office (NAO) of Malta issued a report on “an investigation of visas issued by the Maltese Consulate...

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...

The world of information technology is used to seeing trends emerge and vanish. A rather resilient development has been that of...

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

In January 2019 the European Commission published a report on the risks of investor citizenship and residence schemes in the EU. One of...

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...

In our new series for the Future Citizen Institute we lay the focus on social implications of emerging practices from the fintech...