(Nairobi, September 22, 2026) – Niger’s junta has provisionally stripped five more exiled opposition figures of their nationality, extending a controversial policy increasingly used against critics of...

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This article centers on the concept of “belonging” to argue that belonging and freedom are fundamentally related, and that this relationship cannot be easily captured in formal terms alone. I contend...

By Dr Ed Bates, Associate Professor, University of Leicester. The main focus of this post is on the extra‑territorial application of Article 3. I have some sympathy with the CDDH’s calls for caution i...

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Assessment of a claimant’s credibility is decisive for the outcome in most asylum cases. Yet, there are no binding international rules on how such procedures should be undertaken, nor is there cons...

Having been given a very hard time of it in the Court of Appeal, the Home Secretary has finally been vindicated in her series of appeals concerning the

Foreigners would pay up to $100,000 for citizenship under the proposal

President Donald J. Trump's 2025 Executive Order restricting birthright citizenship has prompted new interest in the interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment'

This article examines the recent restrictive shift in ius soli in France and the United States, focusing on the 2025 reforms enacted in the French island of Mayotte and through President Trump’s execu...

Introduction Britain constitutes a peculiar case study in the area of citizenship, as British laws did not contain the word “citizenship” until the British Nationality Act of 1948. Although before ...

About 32,000 volunteered to fight Franco dictatorship, including 2,500 men and women from Britain and Ireland

Suffrage is a central element of democracy. Over time, electoral rights have increasingly become available to migrants—both as non-citizen residents and as non-resident citizens. However, existing dat...

A child born abroad to British citizen parents who were themselves born abroad is not automatically British at birth. While this might be no shock to

The Global Structure of Transnational Human Mobility (1995-2022): Continuity, Change, and Inequality

Abstract  Over the past years and decades, numerous large-scale quantitative datasets to measure various attributes of immigration law have been generated an...

This article critically assesses Patti Lenard’s conception of subjection, which lies at the heart of Democracy and Exclusion. My aim is to uncover and analyse the logic underlying this conception, ...

São Tomé and Príncipe, a West African island nation, has officially joined the growing list of countries offering citizenship through financial contributions, launching a new citizenship by investment...

On June 11, 2025, the Hungarian Parliament passed Act XLIX of 2025 on the Suspension of Citizenship. In a previous post, reflecting on the constitutional amendment that made way for the present act, I...

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This study examines the impact of immigrant integration programmes on low-literate refugees, focusing on the Norwegian Introduction Programme (IP). Like other obligatory integration courses across ...

The judge gave the government seven days to seek a stay from a higher court in the case, which is likely to head to the Supreme Court.

For the first time in modern history, children born on American soil may be rendered stateless. The risk to non-citizen children is urgent.

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As thousands of foreign nationals stranded in Iran and Israel wait for repatriation flights, governments are scrambling to find safe ways to evacuate them. With airspace closed, land border crossings ...

Portugal vai juntar-se aos países que apertaram critérios para conceder a nacionalidade. Saiba o que está em causa.