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

Timothy Jacob-Owens, Foreign allegiance and constitutional citizenship: postcolonial (dis)continuities in the Commonwealth Caribbean, Comparative Constitutional Studies, 2025
Alice Welsh, The Market Citizenship Illusion: Free Movement Rights for Atypical Workers, Bloomsbury, 2025
Ioanna Pervou, Protecting Nationals Abroad and the Reconceptualization of Sovereignty, Springer, 2025

More studies

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