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Our goal is to provide academics, governments, international organisations and NGOs with information for research and evidence-based evaluation of public policies.

We do not offer information or counselling to individuals interested in acquiring the citizenship of a particular country and we do not encourage experts in our network to answer such requests.

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"As a citizenship studies scholar and activist, I now use the EUDO site regularly especially when I am asked to comment on various developments in citizenship law and politics. I really don't know of a comparably rich and well designed source of information on citizenship laws"

Engin Isin, Chief Editor of the journal Citizenship Studies

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"EUDO Citizenship Observatory a key tool for thinking about future prospects of European citizenship and developing evidence-based policy making in the EU’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice."

Sergio Carrera, Centre for European Policy Studies and University of Kent, Brussels

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Protection against Statelessness
EUDO CITIZENSHIP has entered into a partnership with the UNHCR Statelessness Unit to analyse the extent to which citizenship laws in Europe offer sufficient protection against statelessness. Statelessness occurs for a variety of reasons including discrimination against minority groups in citizenship legislation, failure to include all residents in the body of citizens when a state becomes independent (state succession) and conflicts between the laws of different states. The partnership runs initially from September 2011 until September 2012 and is part of a broader initiative to highlight statelessness as an important theme within the EUDO CITIZENSHIP Observatory. The project is coordinated by Maastricht University as core partner of EUDO CITIZENSHIP.

The objectives of the EUDO CITIZENSHIP - UNHCR collaboration are, first, to join forces in the collection of reliable and up-to-date translations of citizenship laws, particularly with regard to Europe. Second, the partnership aims to develop and implement the European component of a Global Database of Protection against Statelessness. This database will contain information about the extent to which national citizenship laws provide sufficient protection against statelessness, based on the relevant international legal standards, such as those of the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. Third, EUDO CITIZENSHIP will prepare a comparative report on citizenship law provisions and the prevention and reduction of statelessness in Europe.

The project team at Maastricht University consists of Maarten Vink (coordinator), Gerard-René de Groot and Olivier Vonk.