In September 2018 a new immigration law “Loi Collomb” was adopted. The law will enter fully into force by 1 March 2019. Here is an...

A commonly accepted principle under international law is that countries may not discriminate on grounds of race in matters of...

We are taking up the classic definition of populism suggested by Cas Mudde. Populists are inclined to frame politics as a fight amongst...

In contrast to Britain, as we saw last week, France has always regarded its Caribbean possessions as inherent parts of France which...

The hotspot approach was established by the European Commission as part of the direct action to support EU Member States situated at the...

After a period of colonisation by different European powers, decolonisation in the Caribbean officially began with the 1791 Haitian...

Migration is currently one of the most pressing and controversial topics globally. Concerns are also particularly expressed about the...

We call Birth tourism the fact that a pregnant woman travels to another country with the aim to give birth in that country. The key...

In recent months the Future Citizen Institute has reported intensively on the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration...

Earlier this week we discussed the conclusions of an IMF study about what kind of citizenship law results in the best economic...

Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka – who have written extensively on animal rights, for example in Zoopolis – note in their chapter in the...

The IMF has recently analysed the impact of citizenship laws on economic development. The Future Citizen Institute has paid attention to...

In 2015, the Heads of State and Governments of the African Union adopted the Agenda 2063, a plan for socio-economic change in Africa over...

The United Nations projected that by 2050 2,5 billion people will have moved to cities, 90% of which are situated in Africa and Asia....

Although the existence of settler states is often taken for granted, it is good to remember that the first British settlers only arrived...

In December 2018, Dimitris Avramopoulos, the EU Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship announced that 2019 would be the...

While Italy used to be a country of emigration from which millions of people migrated, particularly in the 19th and early 20th century,...

The acquisition of US citizenship by descent (iure sanguinis) is often called ‘derivative citizenship’ in the American literature,...

EU citizenship is currently a status derived from Member State nationality. This derivative nature is not a historically unique...

The last phase in the developments of EU’s external migration policy began with the start of the migration crisis in 2015. The Commission...