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📚 Peter Niesen joins the Debate: Political, not metaphysical 📝 Humans coerce animals, but do they accept that they hold authority over them? 🤔 Niesen argues weak inclusion, with animal representatives in legislatures, may be what makes strong inclusion make sense 🐾 🏛️ shorturl.at/jiefp

Citizenship in the News 🗞🇪🇪 Estonia mulls allowing dual citizenship in certain circumstances: The coalition parties want to allow Estonian citizens by birth to hold dual citizenship. The opposition questions what problem the change is intended to solve news.err.ee/1610167123/e...

Citizenship in the News 🗞🇺🇲 Trump administration seeks to strip Ilhan Omar of US citizenship: WSJ Investigators have subpoenaed relatives and examined immigration records, the newspaper reports. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Great GLOBALCIT Seminar today by @juleslepoutre.bsky.social On his paper: Citizenship as a new aristocracy? Blood, exclusion and republican membership Our next seminar will be on the 19th of November stay tuned for more information 📚

Citizenship in the News 🗞🇦🇷 Argentina officially launches cash-for-citizenship scheme: Investors seeking the fastest but most costly route to Argentine citizenship can choose between a non-refundable gift of $350,000, or buying a government bond for $800,000 amp.dw.com/en/argentina...

Reminder this Thursday 📚👇

📢 NEW GUEST BLOG from Global Movement Against Statelessness: When Digital ID leaves people behind What happens when people who already struggle to prove who they are, are asked to navigate digital systems that depend on documents they do not have? 🔗 Learn more: buff.ly/iRPSVLH #Statelessness

Citizenship in the News 🗞🇮🇳 Bengali Muslims and the ghosts of India's citizenship politics www.thedailystar.net/slow-reads/b...

Citizenship in the News 🗞🇺🇲 Attorney General announces record number of cases to strip US citizenship: Top officials have sought to expand the use of rarely invoked laws that can strip naturalised Americans of citizenship. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

New #Citizenship Literature in our Database 📚 🟢 Economic returns to citizenship: A meta-analysis 💶📈 🟣 Access to citizenship in selected 🇪🇺 countries: comparative legal regimes and intensity of acquisitions 🟡 Reforming Citizenship, Remaking the People 👥🧱 🔗 t.ly/dTCMK

Oh 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...

Citizenship in the News 🇺🇸🇳🇮 US authorities detain Nicaraguan political exiles stripped of citizenship, raising fears of deportation: US immigration authorities detained Nicaraguan exiles who were previously granted protected status after fleeing political persecution www.jurist.org/news/2026/10...

Citizenship in the News 🇩🇰📰 Government wants “anti-democratic views” screening for citizenship applicants and will postpone the stalled citizenship bill to the 'first half of 2027' after a full review cphpost.dk/2026-10-05/n...

🚨 Join us for this month's GLOBALCIT Seminar! 🚨 🌍 Topic: Citizenship as a new aristocracy? Blood, exclusion and republican membership 🔉 Speaker: @juleslepoutre.bsky.social 📅 Thursday, 15 October 🕒 12:00–13:00 CET 📍 Mansarda, Villa Schifanoia Register: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

@jdzankic.bsky.social joins the debate with: Some Political Animals Will Inevitably Be More Equal Than Others ⚖️ Even "equal" co-denizenship stays human-built and human-run, so animal welfare depends on goodwill, as opposed to enforceable rights 🐱⚖️ 📖 tinyurl.com/4xuxwy4z

Want to keep up with citizenship worldwide❓ Check out the latest additions to our database 🌍 🟢 Needs that Bind: Materializing Nationality in Post-Ottoman Regimes 📜🏛️ 🟣 Renunciation rules for people of mixed parentage in 🇹🇿 🟡 Dual citizenship as exclusive capital for Ghanaian returnees🇬🇭 🔗 t.ly/dTCMK

✨ Reminder Nine days to submit your abstract 👇

One of the greatest joys in the life of an academic is when your brightest colleagues gang together to meticulously and carefully show precisely all the many ways in which you are wrong :) Now to see how much of my argument I can salvage. My reply will be published shortly.

New 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/378b9ssx

Citizenship in the News 📰🇵🇸 Israeli minister threatens to revoke filmmakers' citizenship over Gaza documentary: Israel's culture minister has called for the Oscar-winning Israeli co-directors to be stripped of their citizenship over "treason against the state" www.bbc.com/news/article...

Citizenship 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/...

Make sure to join us for the first GLOBALCIT Seminar of the new year ❗ Citizenship: who’s interested? 🤔 If you are new to EUI be sure to stop by and meet the GLOBALCIT Crew 📅 17 September 2026 | 12:00–13:00 CEST 📍 Sala Triaria, Villa Schifanoia 🔗 www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

One of the weird parts of this story is that Stockholm University apparently was forced to design the new language test for citizenship n Sweden.

New Blog❗ @ninaca.bsky.social on Sweden's first citizenship test: 900 sat the exam with no clarity on the passing score or the consequences of failing 📝 This is part of a push to restrict citizenship, leaving ~100,000 pending applications retroactively ineligible ⚖️🇸🇪 📖 tinyurl.com/ccf83nt9

Citizenship in the News 📰🇮🇩 Indonesia’s dual citizenship plan wins diaspora support, but is it enough to tempt them home? President says even if the proposal is approved, dual citizenship would be granted selectively & would not become a blanket entitlement www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/indones...

Citizenship in the News 📰🇮🇪 Citizenship a 'privilege', says minister ahead of rules tightening: Candidates would have to be resident in the country for eight years and undertake language test under proposed overhaul www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

📣 Rainer Bauböck joins the Debate Can Human and Non-human Animals be Political Equals❓ Bauböck argues that respecting animals as moral equals doesn't mean including them as equal citizens. Small-scale co-citizenship in the agora doesn't easily scale up to the nation-state 🏛️🐾 📖 sl1nk.com/oejrhiw