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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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Working Papers

 

A main goal of the EUDO CITIZENSHIP observatory is to encourage academic research in all disciplines that have an interest in citizenship. We hope that the analyses and data provided on our website will stimulate new research questions and allow for testing interesting hypotheses. Browsing our website, PhD students and early career researchers in particular may discover new topics and the data they need to analyse them.

Our working paper series aims specifically at publishing fresh research on citizenship statuses, the attached legal rights and duties and the rules for acquiring and losing citizenship. We hope to contribute in this way with our specific focus to the broader field of citizenship studies.


EUDO CITIZENSHIP publishes two kinds of working papers:

(1) previously unpublished manuscripts on topics of citizenship laws and policies and
(2) collections of edited contributions to EUDO CITIZENSHIP Forum Debates

Working papers submitted to EUDO CITIZENSHIP will be peer reviewed and selected for publication according to their academic quality and their fit with the specific thematic focus of our observatory.

EUDO CITIZENSHIP working papers are published online on this webpage and in the RSCAS Series of the European University Institute.

Editors of the EUDO CITIZENSHIP Working Paper series are:

Rainer Bauböck Iseult Honohan Jo Shaw Maarten Vink

 

Recently published EUDO CITIZENSHIP Working Papers:

Gareth T. Davies: The Family Rights of European Children: Expulsion of non-European parents, RSCAS Working Paper 2012/04 [Author CV: Gareth T. Davies]

Jo Shaw (ed): Has the European Court of Justice Challenged Member State Sovereignty in Nationality Law? RSCAS Working Paper 2011/62 [Editor CV: Jo Shaw]

Rainer Bauböck and Marc Helbling (eds.): Which indicators are most useful for comparing citizenship policies? RSCAS Working Paper 2011/54 [Editors CV: Rainer Bauböck, Marc Helbling]

David Reichel: Do legal regulations hinder naturalisation? Citizenship policies and naturalisation rates in Europe RSCAS Working Paper 2011/51 [Author CV: David Reichel]

Delphine Perrin: Immigration and Citizenship Law in the Maghreb: Turning Aliens into Citizens RSCAS Working Paper 2011/40 [Author CV: Delphine Perrin]

Katja Swider: Pre-Accession Changes to Residence-Based Naturalisation Requirements in Ten New EU Member States RSCAS Working Paper 2011/18 [Author CV: Katja Swider]

Dimitry Kochenov: Mevrouw de Jong Gaat Eten: EU Citizenship and the Culture of Prejudice RSCAS Working Paper 2011/06 [Author CV: Dimitry Kochenov]

Rainer Bauböck (ed.): Dual citizenship for transborder minorities? How to respond to the Hungarian-Slovak tit-for-tat. RSCAS Working Paper 2010/75 [Editor CV: Rainer Bauböck]

Costanza Margiotta and Olivier Vonk: Nationality law and European citizenship: the role of dual nationality. RSCAS Working Paper 2010/66 [Author CV: Costanza Margiotta, Olivier Vonk]

Jo Shaw: Contrasting Dynamics at the Interface of Integration and Constitutionalism. RSCAS Working Paper 2010/60 [Author CV: Jo Shaw]

Costica Dumbrava: How Illiberal are Citizenship Rules in European Union Countries? RSCAS Working Paper 2010/50 [Author CV: Costica Dumbrava]

Rainer Bauböck and Christian Joppke (eds.): How liberal are citizenship tests? RSCAS Working Paper 2010/41 [Editors CV: Rainer Bauböck, Christian Joppke]

Dimitry Kochenov: Rounding up the circle: the mutation of Member States' nationality under pressure from EU citizenship. RSCAS Working Paper 2010/23 [Author CV: Dimitry Kochenov]

Marc Helbling: Public debates on immigration and integration in six Western European countries. RSCAS Working Paper 2010/22 [Author CV: Marc Helbling]

André Liebich and Rainer Bauböck (eds.): Is there (still) an East-West divide in the conception of citizenship in Europe? RSCAS Working Paper 2010/19 [Editors CV: André Liebich, Rainer Bauböck]

 


Submission of working papers:

If you would like to publish an essay as a working paper, you can either send the full text or a short abstract or paper proposal to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or to the Online Form. We will respond to paper proposals by indicating whether the topic fits our series. After the full text of a paper has been submitted, the editors of the working paper series will decide whether to accept the paper for review. Peer reviews will then be commissioned from EUDO CITIZENSHIP or experts or scholars outside our network.

Before submitting a working paper, please read carefully our guidelines for submission and style sheet.