Published on 21 August 2026, the independent Declaration asserts a right for people with experience of forced displacement or statelessness to participate in decisions that directly or indirectly affect their protection and human rights.
Jade Roberts examines the legality of the United Arab Emirates’ 2008 arrangement with the Comoros to provide Comorian passports to the UAE’s stateless bidun population.
Sara Park’s book chapter, published on 19 August 2026, explores Japan’s Nationality Act at the intersection of family, migration and national identity.
Emil Śliwiński examines how terrorism-based deprivation of citizenship should be assessed for proportionality under the European Convention on Human Rights. The article compares ECtHR cases involving citizenship deprivation on terrorism grounds with citizenship case law arising in other contexts.
Vanessa Ruget analyses how Russia’s 2023 citizenship law and several subsequent decrees instrumentalise citizenship. The framework reshapes naturalisation through a new civics test, revised oath-of-allegiance requirements, compulsory military registration and an emphasis on “traditional” values.
In an article published in the Türkiye Adalet Akademisi Dergisi, Şule Arslan addresses limits on the acquisition of nationality by birth in Turkish nationality law.
Nurhan Mousa and Abu Bakr al-Dib examine the legal status of intelligent robots as artificial intelligence becomes part of everyday life and robots can make autonomous decisions. The central problem is whether robots could be granted citizenship and recognised as persons within a legal system.
Hannah Naccasha’s article in Immigrants & Minorities examines the role of adultery in immigration cases in New York and California between 1952 and 1975. It addresses the point where nationality law and immigration litigation meet.
Badr Al-Maskari and Abdulwahab Hamid’s article offers an analytical, critical and comparative reading of Omani nationality law under Royal Decree No. 17/2025.
Fernando López Range’s Globalcit post examines the arbitrary deprivation of nationality in Nicaragua. The piece engages the private-international-law dimension through loss of nationality and statelessness.
The Verfassungsblog post on the Court of Justice’s judgment in Case C-147/24, Safi, reports that Union citizenship was read as protecting not only mobile citizens but also static minor Union citizens who have never exercised free movement.
Bárbara Mota was announced as the winner of the 2026 GLOBALCIT–Rainer Bauböck Essay Award on the Global State of Citizenship, and her certificate was handed over at a ceremony in Florence on 14 May during the MPC-GLOBALCIT conference on Architectures of Global Mobility.
This Open MIND episode traces the shift in dual-citizenship rules from early twentieth-century hostility to the present-day patchwork of permissive, conditional and restrictive regimes.
Uğur Tütüncübaşi’s article in Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Law Review examines the historical development, basic principles and main modes of acquiring citizenship under the 1985 Austrian Citizenship Act (StbG).
Bronwen Manby’s article in the International and Comparative Law Quarterly examines normative developments in international law on nationality since 2005.
Marcel Kau examines a work concerned with developments in migration and nationality law. The legal focus is on current issues arising from migration processes and nationality status.
Yossi Harpaz’s article, "Between insurance and refuge: minority precarity and diaspora citizenship in France and Argentina," is announced by Globalcit as a 2026 piece in Third World Quarterly.
Allison Christians and Werner Haslehner analyse how citizenship-by-investment (CBI) and residence-by-investment (RBI) schemes shape international tax enforcement in an era of increased mobility.
This article focuses on the citizenship of children born through cross-border surrogacy. It notes the difficulties created by Turkey’s prohibition of surrogacy, the widespread application of the mater semper certa est rule, and the lack of international regulation on parentage in such cases.
Çoban, Aslihan authored the academic publication “Some Considerations on the Issue of Polygamy in the Acquisition of Turkish Citizenship by Exceptional Means” in Karatekin Hukuk Dergisi, Vol. 4 No.