Aug 8, 20193 minCan “food citizenship” contribute to sustainability?Just as globalization has led to a growth of people moving across borders, the production, distribution and consumption of food is taking...
Aug 6, 20194 minBiological versus Social EngineeringThe FCI previously explained how naturalisation practices increasingly focus on the Super Citizen: newcomers seemingly need to display...
Aug 6, 20192 minIs 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...
Aug 5, 20194 minUnderstanding Blockchain’s impact on business processesAs part of our series on the implementations of blockchain concepts and the unfolding of other Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT), the...
Aug 1, 20192 minThe “ludic” citizen: play as an indispensable ingredient for citizenshipIt is clear that with the emergence of digital and mobile technologies, our ideas regarding what citizen participation entails have...
Jul 29, 20193 minNatural born vs Naturalized citizens: Who really “is” American?It sometimes seems the real question for the 2020 presidential elections in the United States will not be migration, as was expected, but...
Jul 29, 20193 minTechnological citizenship or What does it mean to be human in the 21st century?Over the last few decades, technological developments have not been confined to the material world but human beings have become the...
Jul 25, 20193 minWhat are the European deportation rates of rejected asylum seekers?A report published this spring called Dealing with (non-)deportability comparatively investigates the factors in twelve EU and Schengen...
Jul 24, 20193 minFlexible citizenship and highly skilled migrants: Indians expats in the NetherlandsWe’ve noted earlier that the two largest diasporas in the world are formed by Indians and Chinese. The creation of diasporas is not a...
Jul 23, 20195 minAn analysis of Donald Trump’s Crypto Tweet (2/2)On Thursday, 12 July 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump communicated via Twitter several statements regarding Bitcoin and other...
Jul 22, 20192 minIrish High Court drastically tightens rules to acquire citizenship by naturalisationExcept for a few cases, all countries in the world have a provision in their citizenship law outlining the conditions for acquiring...
Jul 19, 20194 minHow 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...
Jul 18, 20194 minAn analysis of Donald Trump’s Crypto-Tweet (1/2)On Thursday, 12 July 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump communicated via Twitter several statements regarding Bitcoin and other...
Jul 17, 20192 minAre 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...
Jul 16, 20192 minCan 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...
Jul 16, 20192 minWhy 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...
Jul 15, 20192 minEgypt amends Citizenship Act to allow for citizenship-by-investmentEarlier this month the Egyptian parliament approved amendments to the Egyptian Nationality Law that had been proposed by the National...
Jul 12, 20192 minAntarctica: a continent without bordersThe reconceptualization of the passport is in full swing owing to geopolitical and technological developments. Future Citizen Institute...
Jul 11, 20194 minThe Turkish diaspora in GermanyAs a follow up to our posts on Turkish investor citizenship and the recent elections in Turkey, we discuss recent scholarship by Susan...
Jul 10, 20193 minThe Systemic Risk of Financial Bitcoin ProductsThe world of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and its possible implementations is currently being explored from many different angles....
