Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Depressing. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...giftarticle.ft.comBrazil’s markets surge as investors bet on Flávio Bolsonaro election winRightwinger seen as more likely than current president Lula to enact quick spending cuts 030
Reposted by Maarten VinkGLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026📣 New GLOBALCIT Review Symposium 📖 ‘Citizenship Renunciation without Emigration’ by Lior Erez, featuring comments by five authors 📝 @liorerez.bsky.social with the kickoff piece 🔗 globalcit.eu/introduction...globalcit.euGLOBALCIT Review Symposium on ‘Citizenship Renunciation without Emigration’ by Lior Erez - GlobalcitIntroduction by Lior Erez Comments by Daniel Sharp, Rainer Bauböck , Rebecca Buxton , Patti Tamara Lenard and Jules Lepoutre Read More ... 124
Reposted by Maarten VinkGLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026🟣 @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social What does citizenship renunciation express? 📖 globalcit.eu/introduction... 🟡 @pattitlenard.bsky.social: Does renouncing citizenship express much at all? 👓 globalcit.eu/introduction...globalcit.euGLOBALCIT Review Symposium on ‘Citizenship Renunciation without Emigration’ by Lior Erez - Page 4 of 6 - GlobalcitIntroduction by Lior Erez Comments by Daniel Sharp, Rainer Bauböck , Rebecca Buxton , Patti Tamara Lenard and Jules Lepoutre Read More ... 134
Reposted by Maarten VinkGLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026⚪ @deeesharp.bsky.social: Renunciation, Emigration and the Point of Citizenship 📖 globalcit.eu/introduction... 🟢 Rainer Bauböck: Emigration is a Reasonable Condition for Renouncing Membership in a Birthright Community 📖 globalcit.eu/introduction...globalcit.euGLOBALCIT Review Symposium on ‘Citizenship Renunciation without Emigration’ by Lior Erez - Page 2 of 6 - GlobalcitIntroduction by Lior Erez Comments by Daniel Sharp, Rainer Bauböck , Rebecca Buxton , Patti Tamara Lenard and Jules Lepoutre Read More ... 122
Reposted by Maarten VinkGLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026🟠 @juleslepoutre.bsky.social: Where Renunciation Leads globalcit.eu/introduction...globalcit.euGLOBALCIT Review Symposium on ‘Citizenship Renunciation without Emigration’ by Lior Erez - Page 6 of 6 - GlobalcitIntroduction by Lior Erez Comments by Daniel Sharp, Rainer Bauböck , Rebecca Buxton , Patti Tamara Lenard and Jules Lepoutre Read More ... 032
Reposted by Maarten VinkGLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Citizenship in the News 📰🇪🇸🇲🇦 Why Spain’s new Sahrawi citizenship law matters to Morocco: The new citizenship bill for Sahrawis touches a sensitive fault line in Madrid’s ties with Rabat. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/...aljazeera.comWhy Spain’s new Sahrawi citizenship law matters to MoroccoThe new citizenship bill for Sahrawis touches a sensitive fault line in Madrid’s ties with Rabat. 011
Reposted by Maarten VinkGLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026New Blog Post 🚨 Mohammad Amaan Siddiqui asks whether Western citizenship's promise of openness holds up against lived experiences of noncitizenship — and finds the Gulf model is often preferred over naturalising in the Global North 🌍 🔗 tinyurl.com/378b9ssxtinyurl.comWhen Noncitizenship in the Arabian Gulf is Privileged Over Pursuing Western Citizenship - GlobalcitMohammad Amaan Siddiqui (Oxford University) Migration Patterns in and from the Arabian Gulf Migration planning and migrant identities in the Arabian Gulf are taking increasingly heterogeneous shapes a... 021
Reposted by Maarten VinkEPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026📢 The Call for Papers for EPSS 2027 is open! After a fantastic first conference in Belfast, we’re heading to Copenhagen 🇩🇰, 24–26 June 2027. ⏰ Deadline: 13 Nov 2026 👉 Call for papers: epssnet.org/2027-copenha... 1/2epssnet.orgCall for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 ConferenceSubmit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact. 18659
Reposted by Maarten VinkPer Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 15/09/20264-year postdoc(s) at Copenhagen Business School on project The Business of Corruption: Why Business Elites Collude or Combat Political Corruption, led by @mkjustesen.bsky.social. Start: summer 2027, deadline 18 September. www.cbs.dk/en/about-cbs... 12625
Reposted by Maarten VinkMaarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Oh no... Now also Ireland is planning to increase the residence requirement for naturalisation (from 5 to 8 years)?? If this goes through it would be a pretty dramatic move. Justification rests on picking the most restrictive examples across Europe... www.gov.ie/en/departmen... 178
Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Oh no... Now also Ireland is planning to increase the residence requirement for naturalisation (from 5 to 8 years)?? If this goes through it would be a pretty dramatic move. Justification rests on picking the most restrictive examples across Europe... www.gov.ie/en/departmen... 178
Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 11/09/2026One of the weird parts of this story is that Stockholm University apparently was forced to design the new language test for citizenship n Sweden. 023
Reposted by Maarten VinkGLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Senegal 🇸🇳 is on course to become the first African Union member state to sign and ratify the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights relating to the right to a nationality and the eradication of statelessness in Africa 🌍 📰 Catch up with our news article: l1nq.com/2qb458iglobalcit.euSenegal takes first step towards ratifying the African Protocol on the Right to a Nationality and the Eradication of Statelessness - GlobalcitSenegal is on course to become the first African Union (AU) member state to sign and ratify the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights relating to the right to a nationality and ... 122
Reposted by Maarten VinkBronwen Manby @bronwenmanby.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Senegalese Council of Ministers communique on adoption of draft law for accession to the Protocol to the ACHPR on the right to a nationality and eradication of statelessness 013
Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 01/09/2026check out @polinera.bsky.social for a great project on Political Inclusion in an Era of Radicalization. POLINERA is a research project funded under the Nordforsk call for Nordic-Baltic research on migration and integration. www.tlu.ee/en/polineratlu.eePolitical Inclusion in an Era of Radicalization (POLINERA)While the success of the populist radical right has been extensively documented in Europe and also the Nordic-Baltic region, we have little knowledge about how this is affecting the local immigrant an... 120
Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Let’s how long map providers keep it together… 010
Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Good piece on England’s birthright citizenship in the @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukKathleen Commons · Short Cuts: England’s Birthright CitizenshipIt was relatively straightforward for the British government to end birthright subjecthood: statute overrides common law... 032
Reposted by Maarten VinkMaarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Interesting experience sharing insights from @globalcit.bsky.social to weigh in on #citizenship discussions in Italian parliament 🇮🇹. Curious to see what happens from here. @eui-eu.bsky.social @eui-schuman.bsky.social www.eunews.it/en/2026/07/3...eunews.itEUI expert weighs in on Italian citizenship billThe European University Institute presents a comparison of the citizenship laws of 32 European countries to Parliament 155
Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Interesting experience sharing insights from @globalcit.bsky.social to weigh in on #citizenship discussions in Italian parliament 🇮🇹. Curious to see what happens from here. @eui-eu.bsky.social @eui-schuman.bsky.social www.eunews.it/en/2026/07/3...eunews.itEUI expert weighs in on Italian citizenship billThe European University Institute presents a comparison of the citizenship laws of 32 European countries to Parliament 155
Reposted by Maarten VinkMaarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 07/08/2026What do you do when the Supreme Court doesn’t let you redefine birthright citizenship? You bring out the old “alien enemies” card… bsky.app/profile/atru... 285
Reposted by Maarten VinkMaarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Here we go again. 🧵 with links www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u...nytimes.comTrump Signs Executive Orders Targeting Birthright Citizenship and ‘Birth Tourism’ (Gift Article)The orders come after the Supreme Court ruled June 30 that President Trump’s previous efforts to end birthright citizenship were unconstitutional. 2138
Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 07/08/2026And another 🧵 from birthright EO round I discussions, if you're interested in the 'here we go again' aspects. bsky.app/profile/maar... 000
Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Curious about the regulation of birthright citizenship beyond the US? Check out this 🧵 from the discussion around birthright EO round I, with links to relevant literature and sources (@globalcit.bsky.social). Including a somewhat pedantic comment on terminology... bsky.app/profile/maar... 110
Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Note: this number includes women who did not necessarily intend to have a baby in the US, and excludes births to women who traveled to the US with the intent to have a baby but who used a US address to avoid scrutiny (part of business models promoting birth tourism, @migrationpolicy.bsky.social). 031
Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 07/08/2026And some context on the "birth tourism" "problem" that is at the heart of the two new EO's. In 2024, according to @migrationpolicy.bsky.social, the CDC reported ~ 9,600 babies born to foreign resident mothers. That's less than 0.3 % of all births in the US. www.migrationpolicy.org/journal/poli... 232
Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 07/08/2026and @evanbernick.bsky.social’s take bsky.app/profile/evan... 000
Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 07/08/2026What do you do when the Supreme Court doesn’t let you redefine birthright citizenship? You bring out the old “alien enemies” card… bsky.app/profile/atru... 285
Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 07/08/2026And @unlawfulentries.bsky.social’s take on the new birthright citizenship EO. bsky.app/profile/unla... 113
Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Detailed commentary by @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/reic... 121
Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Here’s a “factsheet” with the administration’s pitch of both EO’s. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...whitehouse.govFact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Ends Birth Tourism and Protects the Meaning and Value of American CitizenshipSAFEGUARDING AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP AND ENDING BIRTH TOURISM: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed two Executive Orders to continue to protect the 121
Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Here’s the EO targeting “birth tourism”, including visa/entry measures and “other appropriate action against entities, organizations, or individuals, within or outside of the United States, responsible for facilitating or enabling birth tourism in any manner.” www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...whitehouse.govEnding Birth TourismBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose. Every child deserves a safe and nurturing home ... 111
Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 07/08/2026So the Supreme Court did not let Trump redefine birthright citizenship. He’s trying again. Here’s the EO with new exclusion grounds for executive recognition of citizenship. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...whitehouse.govContinuing to Protect the Meaning and Value of American CitizenshipBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Every child deserves a safe and nurturing home where they... 021
Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Here we go again. 🧵 with links www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u...nytimes.comTrump Signs Executive Orders Targeting Birthright Citizenship and ‘Birth Tourism’ (Gift Article)The orders come after the Supreme Court ruled June 30 that President Trump’s previous efforts to end birthright citizenship were unconstitutional. 2138
Reposted by Maarten VinkMaarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The Trump administration’s cuts to blue states effectively reclassify many Americans to second class citizens based on residency. @donmoyn.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni... 294
Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 06/08/2026@peterspiro.bsky.social may have smt to say about this 110
Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The Trump administration’s cuts to blue states effectively reclassify many Americans to second class citizens based on residency. @donmoyn.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni... 294
Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Per tutto quello che avete sempre voluto sapere sulla cittadinanza, e molto altro, il sito del @globalcit.bsky.social: globalcit.euglobalcit.euGlobal Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT) - GlobalcitGLOBALCIT 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. 000
Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Per maggiori dettagli, qui la mia memoria scritta: globalcit.eu/globalcit-co...globalcit.euGLOBALCIT Co-Director Maarten Vink testifies in Italian Parliament on Citizenship Proposals - GlobalcitGLOBALCIT Co-Director Maarten Vink testified on July 21st 2026, before Italy’s Constitutional Affairs Committee on a proposed amendment to the citizenship law, drawing on GLOBACIT data on citizenship ... 100
Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Grazie a Beda Romano per aver ripreso, nel suo blog per Il Sole 24 Ore, il mio intervento nell'audizione del 21 luglio davanti alla Commissione Affari Costituzionali della Camera dei deputati sulla proposta di legge A.C. 2124. bedaromano.blog.ilsole24ore.com/2026/08/02/l...bedaromano.blog.ilsole24ore.comLa vicenda di Ceuta, la reazione del governo Meloni e le restrizioni all'ottenimento della nazionalità italiana - Dal fronte di Bruxelles (ex GermaniE)Molti commentatori hanno criticato in questi giorni il governo Meloni per la reazione avuta dinanzi agli avvenimenti di Ceuta, l’enclave spagnola in territorio africano. Sono d’accordo con molte delle... 111
Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 02/08/2026The perimeters of a new paper has been agreed to! 020
Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Zoon van collega zoekt kamer in regio Rotterdam. 031
Reposted by Maarten VinkJani Erola @janierola.net · 02/08/2026My son Eemil is about to begin his studies at Rotterdam Business School this autumn. If you know someone in the region who needs a trusty tenant, please let me known! Anything in a commutable range would definitely be fine, Eemil has already extended his search to Delft, Gouda and Dordrecht. 158
Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Huh… what? www.theguardian.com/science/2026...theguardian.comDrifting SpaceX rocket heading for accidental collision with moonScientists and sky gazers will watch intently as rocket’s upper stage slams into lunar surface on Wednesday 000
Reposted by Maarten VinkGLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Citizenship in the News 📰 🇰🇭 Cambodian law can render citizens stateless for ‘undermining national security’: Is the new law a legal tool to promote nationalism or a weapon to silence dissent? globalvoices.org/2026/07/19/c...globalvoices.orgCambodian law can render citizens stateless for ‘undermining national security’“I know how easily words like ‘traitor’ and ‘enemy’ can be wielded by those in power to crush hope and sow fear.” 012
Reposted by Maarten VinkGLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Citizenship in the News 📰 🌏 With comments by our Country Expert Christoph Sperfeldt Born Without a Country: In Southeast Asia, colonial legacies and citizenship policies continue to leave hundreds of thousands without legal nationality daily.jstor.org/born-without...daily.jstor.orgBorn Without a Country - JSTOR DailyIn Southeast Asia, colonial legacies and citizenship policies continue to leave hundreds of thousands without legal nationality. 011
Reposted by Maarten VinkGLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 30/07/2026❗New Entry Paola Cavalieri questions whether trust & sociability, the preconditions for interspecies politics in the debate, hold against the industrial agribusiness 🏭 Animal resistance is political action, doing politics with them starts with supporting that 🐾 📖 tinyurl.com/af5ybcbttinyurl.comPolitical Animals: Should non-humans be recognised as co-citizens, denizens and self-governing political agents? - Page 3 of 3 - GlobalcitKickoff contribution by Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka Comments by Maneesha Deckha, Paola Cavalieri Read More ... 021
Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 28/07/2026So let me get this straight. This morning, André Ventura (Chega) suggests there was a Watergate-like break-in at his parliamentary office. CCTV reportedly showed 1 of his own MPs entering the office at 7am while cleaners said it was left open overnight Desperate? sicnoticias.pt/pais/politic... 000
Reposted by Maarten VinkGLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Citizenship in the News 📰🇮🇹🇪🇺 Italy sends citizenship-by-descent dispute to the Court of Justice: The Constitutional Court halted challenges to the Tajani Decree and asked whether restrictions affecting people born before the law took effect comply with EU law edition.cnn.com/2026/07/25/t...edition.cnn.comThe global battle for Italian citizenship rights just got a potential lifeline | CNNItaly’s Constitutional Court has referred a strict new law restricting citizenship to Europe’s highest court, offering hope to thousands seeking a new nationality. 021