Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT)

The Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT) is an online observatory committed to fact-based and non-partisan analysis of citizenship laws and electoral rights around the world. We are a global research network based at the European University Institute as part of the Global Governance Programme at the Robert Schuman Centre. Learn more about us, or stay up to date by subscribing to our newsletter. Also check out the Global State of Citizenship Report, 2025.

Announcements

Summer School, Contestations of Citizenship in Times of Global Democratic Backsliding, Application Deadline 1 March

GLOBALCIT Publications

Country Report: Citizenship in Kuwait

Technical Report: The state of citizenship in a wider Europe : towards convergence? Country Report: Citizenship in Cabo Verde

New literature

Diaspora voting: A new item on the ‘menu of manipulation’?
Diaspora voting: A new item on the ‘menu of manipulation’?
Elizabeth Iams Wellman and Nathan W Allen, Diaspora voting: A new item on the ‘menu of manipulation’?, International Political Science Review, 2026.
‘Swiss by ancestry’: Genuine and strategic nativism in naturalization procedure
‘Swiss by ancestry’: Genuine and strategic nativism in naturalization procedure
Wegahta B Sereke, Stefan Manser-Egli, Barbara von Rütte, ‘Swiss by ancestry’: Genuine and strategic nativism in naturalization procedures, Migration Studies, 2026.
The Invention Of Sporting Nationality: How Transnational Law Tamed “The Last Bastion Of Sovereignty”
The Invention Of Sporting Nationality: How Transnational Law Tamed “The Last Bastion Of Sovereignty”
Ran Hirschl and Ayelet Shachar,The Invention Of Sporting Nationality: How Transnational Law Tamed “The Last Bastion Of Sovereignty”, Berkeley Journal of International Law, 2025.

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