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...

The Malta Residency and Visa Regulations have been amended to extend the list of Qualifying Investments. The revised regulations now...

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...

The Grenada Citizenship by Investment Unit has recently circulated changes to Grenada's four-year-old Citizenship by Investment (CBI)...

With the introduction of a Citizenship by Investment (CBI) programme in Moldova in July 2018, eleven states currently offer...

In its ‘Global Appeal 2018-2019’, UNHCR again highlighted the far-reaching and manifold problems relating to climate change: ‘Climate...

Author: Dr. Olivier Vonk The ever-growing robotisation and full automatization are predicted to have a major impact on the idea of...

Author: Dr. Olivier Vonk Africa has rapidly developed in recent years from the ‘hopeless continent’ into a region attracting considerable...