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Jelena Dzankic
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Jelena Džankić is Co-Director of the Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT) and part-time professor at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.

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Jelena Dzankic @jdzankic.bsky.social · 6d
Such a cool example to use in a class about citizenship by exceptional merit!

*there are other articles on the topic but this one also has some quotes on the grounds for naturalisation

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6d
George Clooney fires back at Trump after US president mocks his French citizenship
George Clooney fires back at Trump after US president mocks his French citizenship
Trump called the actor and his wife, Amal, ‘two of the worst political prognosticators of all time’ after they were awarded French passports George Clooney has lashed out at US president Donald Trump for criticising France’s decision to grant the Hollywood actor and his family French citizenship. The 64-year-old Oscar winner, his wife, Amal Alamuddin Clooney, and their two children became French citizens earlier this month after living on a property in southern France for years. Continue reading...
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Jelena Dzankic @jdzankic.bsky.social · Dec 9
Pre-print available at Researchgate: lnkd.in/dipsJkH2
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Jelena Dzankic @jdzankic.bsky.social · Dec 9
We shift the analyrical lens from the politics of membership on the practice of offshoring goods and services. Leveraging a new CBI global dataset (1960–2023), we learn that microstates, middle-income countries, and tax havens are more likely to adopt CBI.

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Jelena Dzankic @jdzankic.bsky.social · Dec 9
The workings of Citizenship-by-investment (CBI) programs are highly controversial, and their adoption is subject of much scholarly disagreement. In this paper, we look at why countries put their citizenship up for sale.

Reposted by Maarten Vink

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Jelena Dzankic @jdzankic.bsky.social · Dec 9
NEW Publication featuring a great lineup of citizenship scholars!! :)

“The Archipelago Capitalism of Citizenship-By-Investment”, Comparative Political Studies, lnkd.in/dQPG4Q7J

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Reposted by Maarten Vink, Alison Phipps, Jelena Džankić

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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · Dec 1
New Blog Alert 📣

@ninaca.bsky.social analyses how radical-right influence is driving a three-phase tightening of Finland’s naturalisation regime 🇫🇮

A shift that signals a harsher, more exclusionary model of Nordic citizenship across the region 🔍

Read 📖 shorturl.at/md5zK
Restrictive citizenship reform in Finland in three acts: a paradigm shift driven by the radical right? - Globalcit
This blog post discusses the ongoing restrictive changes to naturalisation policy in Finland. It links these policy changes to domestic and regional political dynamics, both of which involve the radic...
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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · Nov 27
GLOBALCIT December Seminar ⚡

Our very own @maartenpvink.bsky.social and @jdzankic.bsky.social will present new data on whether CBI programmes, despite the criticism, have achieved their objective of fostering economic growth 🤔

📅 4 Dec, 12:00–13:00
📍 Sala Triaria

🔗 tinyurl.com/3cmmfy94
Do citizenship-by-investment programmes increase foreign direct investment?
This seminar will present new data on whether CBI programmes, despite the criticism, have achieved their objective of fostering economic growth.
www.eui.eu

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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · Nov 17
Delighted to see our new @globalcit.bsky.social study on the conditions for #citizenship acquisition by immigrants and their descendants, out now in #openaccess!
globalcit.bsky.social GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · Nov 17
New GLOBALCIT study compares the conditions of the citizenship acquisition processes for first-generation immigrants and their descendants in 11 countries 🇦🇹🇧🇪🇩🇰🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇱🇻🇳🇱🇵🇹🇸🇪🇬🇧

📰 Summary and Key Findings: tinyurl.com/56sknbxw
📖 Full Report: tinyurl.com/yc6cdszx

Reposted by Maarten Vink, Michael Jones‐Correa, Jelena Džankić

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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · Nov 17
New GLOBALCIT study compares the conditions of the citizenship acquisition processes for first-generation immigrants and their descendants in 11 countries 🇦🇹🇧🇪🇩🇰🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇱🇻🇳🇱🇵🇹🇸🇪🇬🇧

📰 Summary and Key Findings: tinyurl.com/56sknbxw
📖 Full Report: tinyurl.com/yc6cdszx

Reposted by Maarten Vink, Jelena Džankić

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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · Nov 5
Citizenship in the News 📰🇪🇸

Spain grants citizenship to descendants of civil war’s International Brigades: About 32,000 volunteered to fight Franco dictatorship

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Spain grants citizenship to descendants of civil war’s International Brigades
About 32,000 volunteered to fight Franco dictatorship, including 2,500 men and women from Britain and Ireland
www.theguardian.com

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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · Nov 5
Applications are now open for the UCD Iseult Honohan Doctoral Scholarship 2026!

📚 Full PhD funding in Politics & International Relations or Quantitative and Computational Social Science at University College Dublin

🕔 Deadline: 30 Jan 2026, 5 pm (Dublin)

www.ucd.ie/spire/study/...
Iseult Honohan Doctoral Scholarship - UCD School of Politics and International Relations
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Filip Kostelka @filipkostelka.bsky.social · Nov 3
Last week, I presented my research at the University of Rijeka (@unirijeka.bsky.social) during an event celebrating Croatia's accession to @eui-eu.bsky.social. I am grateful to the session's chair, Tena Prelec (@tenaprelec.bsky.social), & the audience for great questions & engagement.

Reposted by Maarten Vink, Marie-Laure Basilien-Gainche, Jelena Džankić

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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · Oct 1
🚨 Webinar Alert 🚨

Join us for the online launch of the new Migrant Electoral Rights (MER) Dataset, the most comprehensive global dataset on migrant suffrage to date 🌐

📅 Oct 15 | 17:00 CEST
📍 Online
🔗 Register www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

Reposted by Maarten Vink, Michelle Everson, Jelena Džankić

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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · Sep 25
Explore the new GLOBALCIT Migrant Electoral Rights (MER) Dataset ❗🌐

🌍 165 countries (1960–2020)
📊 488 indicators
🗳️ voting & candidacy rights of non-citizen residents + non-resident citizens
🏛️ Differentiates election type (legislative, executive, referendum) & level

📥: tinyurl.com/yv37nj7m
Migrant Electoral Rights (MER) Dataset - Globalcit
Suffrage is a central element of democracy. Over time, electoral rights have increasingly become available to migrants—both as non-citizen residents and as non-resident citizens. However, existing dat...
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Jelena Dzankic @jdzankic.bsky.social · Sep 25
Four, can this actually be implemented? In the US, the Congress normally passes visa-related regulation. But who knows, the world comes up with surprises every day…

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Jelena Dzankic @jdzankic.bsky.social · Sep 25
Third, being “subject to the same procedures as an original visa applicant, including appropriate screening for public safety and national security” is not enough for these kinds of applications. There are risks of money laundering, which require additional measures

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Jelena Dzankic @jdzankic.bsky.social · Sep 25
This makes one wonder about the policy purpose - gifting one million USD to the US and to Vanuatu or Malta (amounts are smaller there, but just for the sake of the argument) has a different economic impact

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Jelena Dzankic @jdzankic.bsky.social · Sep 25
Second, the amount announced in February (5 million USD) is fivefold the amount in the EO. If one looks at other countries operating similar “gift” schemes, they require around 0.5 million and their economies are much smaller than the US one

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Jelena Dzankic @jdzankic.bsky.social · Sep 25
Residency-by-investment is not uncommon around the world, but it is “gift” (rather than investment) based in a very specific subset of countries worldwide; often, nearly always, such countries have manifest problems of good governance

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Jelena Dzankic @jdzankic.bsky.social · Sep 25
First, the policy justification is vastly nonsensical. Unlike the existing EB-5, which seeks to attract investors and businesspeople to transfer their activities to the US, this Gold Card introduces “a gift” in exchange for residency rights

Reposted by Maarten Vink, Jo Shaw

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Jelena Dzankic @jdzankic.bsky.social · Sep 25
I’ve been waiting for this since February, and it is quite a bit of an anticlimax. See 🧵 for a few thoughts on the #goldcard, #residence, #US

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
The Gold Card
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.
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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · Sep 15
📢 New Open-Access Working Paper! @artsofdenial.bsky.social & Rainer Bauböck ask:

Citizenship as Reparations: Should the Victims of Historical Injustice Be Offered Membership❓

13 authors reply 💬, exploring questions of justice, colonialism, nation-building, and more 🌍

📖 🔗 tinyurl.com/dz8ht87z
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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · Sep 11
Great to see @globalcit.bsky.social’s Rainer Bauböck at the launch of the @internationalidea.bsky.social Global State of Democracy Report 2025. Emphasising the important implications of out-of-country voting in times of democratic recession both in migrant origin countries and destination countries.

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Jo Shaw @joshaw.bsky.social · Sep 9
Delighted to have coordinated this book symposium, showcasing Engin Isin's important contribution to citizenship studies and citizenship theory. Thank you to all the reviewers!
globalcit.bsky.social GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · Sep 9
📢 New Book Review Symposium 📚

Engin Isin’s Citizenship: New Trajectories in Law explores the paradox of human vs citizenship rights & asks if a planetary citizenship can emerge 🤔

Isin reflects on 35 years of struggles, rights, and paradoxes shaping modern citizenship

🔗 tinyurl.com/yed9efba
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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · Sep 9
📢 New Book Review Symposium 📚

Engin Isin’s Citizenship: New Trajectories in Law explores the paradox of human vs citizenship rights & asks if a planetary citizenship can emerge 🤔

Isin reflects on 35 years of struggles, rights, and paradoxes shaping modern citizenship

🔗 tinyurl.com/yed9efba
globalcit.eu

Reposted by Maarten Vink, Jelena Džankić

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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · Aug 1
That’s a Wrap 🎬

David Owen & Rainer Bauböck respond to 13 entries in the Citizenship as Reparations Debate

🤔 Does why a state offers reparative citizenship matter as much as to whom?
🎭 Can symbolic reparation mask selective immigration?
⚖️ When is it a moral duty, not just a choice?

🔗 t.ly/UPMSb

Reposted by Peter J. Spiro, Jelena Džankić

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Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social · Apr 30
My blog on yesterday’s EU Court judgment outlawing “commercial” selling of EU citizenship verfassungsblog.de/the-eu-free-... at @verfassungsblog.de
The EU Free Market Does Not Extend to Citizenship
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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · Jul 10
New Entry ✨

@jdzankic.bsky.social warns that reparative citizenship 🛂 isn’t always about justice ⚖️ It’s selective (who counts), transactional (status-for-benefit), and strategic (state interest first) 🇪🇸🇲🇽🇱🇷

A passport 🛂 isn’t always reparations, sometimes it’s geopolitics 🌍

🔗 tinyurl.com/2v2n5v4k

Reposted by Peter J. Spiro, Jelena Džankić

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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · Jul 9
Hanging out in Budapest with a great citizenship crowd ❤️

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Pictured in Budapest from left to right: Maarten Vink, Patricia Jeronimo, Rainer Baubock, Bronwen Manby, Jelena Dzankic, Peter Spiro