Published in European Studies
The EU Treaties provide several possibilities to sanction EU Member States for failing to comply with EU law. The EU has a legal basis for so-called EU sanctions in Article 215 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU, aimed at third countries (i.e. countries outside the EU) and their legal entities (e.g., in Belarus, Russia). Over recent years, ...
The disintegration of the British Empire in Asia and the emergence of new nation-states marked a period of significant upheaval for communities whose identities and mobilities were fundamentally reconstituted by a new system of borders, citizenships, and nationalities. In this article, I seek to explore a social history of early citizenship in Sing...
status: published
Although the Argentine crisis of 2001 led about the largest exodus of Argentinians to Spain, the later advent of the crisis of 2008 originates a series of displacements in an opposite direction: Argentinians stop emigrating to the European country to begin the return to their country of origin. In this return process, migrants mobilized certain res...
Published in Frontiers in Sociology
The German citizenship law underwent a paradigmatic amendment in 2000. One often overlooked change of this reform was the abolishment of the domestic clause (“Inlandsklausel”) that implied a substantial restriction to de facto dual citizenship acceptance. Combining data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (waves 1993–2006) with original data...
Since the fate of the Syrian/Assyrian minority that has fled Turkey has not received much attention in research, this thesis is made to recognize the group and their experiences as refugees, Christians, and citizens in their old and new countries of Turkey and Sweden. When talking about dual citizenship, in terms of previous research, researchers o...
Published in New Global Studies
Although the Person of Indian Origin (PIO) and Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) schemes have existed for some time, they began to serve a political and economic purpose for the Republic of India with the arrival of the twenty-first century. The OCI status asserts “Indianness” as a legible quality in diasporic memory. It does the work of cementing po...
Državljanstvo je človekova pravica, ki se stalno oblikuje in je vključena v Splošno deklaracijo človekovih pravic (1948). Še vedno velja, da je koncept državljanstva v pristojnosti notranje zakonodaje držav, vendar imajo vedno večjo vlogo mednarodni dokumenti in mednarodna praksa. Pogosto prihaja do neusklajenosti notranjih zakonodaj držav, kar lah...
Published in ICL Journal
This paper describes new legislation relating to citizenship of the Czech Republic, namely Act No 186/2013 Coll, and shows how wide the gap is between the law and the applicants’ expectations. It is based on an analysis of more than 1,600 naturalisation decisions from 2013–2016. This analysis made it possible to draw the conclusion that the decisiv...
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