Everyone has a right to a legal identity.

The Council of the European Union has adopted a revised directive extending and clarifying electoral rights for EU citizens who live in a member state other than their own, updating legislation that h...

The blog-post considers what the recent election of a Member of the Scottish Parliament list for the duration of the next Scottish Parliament (five years) with limited leave to remain the UK to means ...

Changes to Canadian citizenship rules have led to thousands of new applications - many coming from the US.

Madeline-Sophie Abbas (Lancaster University) Background: Al-Hol camp The abrupt and uncoordinated closure of al-Hol camp on 22 February 2026 has reignited debates concerning the repatriation of those ...

With hundreds of thousands of Syrian Kurds having been deprived of citizenship since the 1960s, recent acknowledgement of their suffering by the current Syrian authorities is welcome. The context in w...

What happens to citizenship governance when states must decide whom they will protect during a crisis? This article highlights the highly variegated and context-specific nature of citizenship gover...

What happens to citizenship governance when states must decide whom they will protect during a crisis? This article highlights the highly variegated and context-specific nature of citizenship gover...

Under Trump, US citizenship is again a political battleground, as expanded denaturalisation grounds threaten decades of legal protections for millions of naturalised Americans.

This blog post discusses the ongoing restrictive changes to naturalisation policy in Finland. It links these policy changes to domestic and regional political dynamics, both of which involve the radic...

A new report from the Global Citizenship Observatory GLOBALCIT at the European University Institute EUI reveals persistent global disparities in access to cit

Join the GLOBALCIT team as they present key findings on the current state of citizenship legislation across the world

In this article, experts in migration and citizenship policies, applied labor, and public economics discuss the upcoming referendum in Italy, examining its pot…

Italy’s Constitutional Court said on Thursday that same-sex female couples who use in vitro fertilization (IVF) abroad can both be legally recognized as parents in Italy, even if one is not the biolog...

If it comes into force, President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship could have consequences for people and processes in the US and abroad.

If it comes into force, President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship could have consequences for people and processes in the US and abroad.

If it comes into force, President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship could have consequences for people and processes in the US and abroad.

Among his first actions as re-installed president, Donald Trump issued a January 20 executive order purporting to roll back territorial birthright citizenship in the United States. Under the order, US...

Among his first actions as re-installed president, Donald Trump issued a January 20 executive order purporting to roll back territorial birthright citizenship in the United States. Under the order, US...

The 14th Amendment made the U.S. a place where every child was born equal under the law. That might be about to change.

GLOBALCIT is committed to fact-based and non-partisan analysis of citizenship laws and policies around the globe. From 2017 GLOBALCIT is the successor of EUDO CITIZENSHIP.

On 16 October 2024, Italy passed a law that would make it illegal for couples to go abroad to have a baby through an international surrogacy arrangement. The law, approved by the senate with 84 votes ...