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Ashley Mantha-Hollands
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Research Fellow, @eui-eu.bsky.social, @globalcit.bsky.social | Working on citizenship and reproductive law | she/her

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Ashley Mantha-Hollands @ashleymhollands.bsky.social · 1d
Very happy to be continuing to work with @maartenpvink.bsky.social, @jdzankic.bsky.social, @joshaw.bsky.social, Rainer Bauböck and the rest of the @globalcit.bsky.social team for the foreseeable future! yay!
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Very happy to be continuing to work with @maartenpvink.bsky.social, @jdzankic.bsky.social, @joshaw.bsky.social, Rainer Bauböck and the rest of the @globalcit.bsky.social team for the foreseeable future! yay!
November 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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globalcit.bsky.social
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
November 17, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Reposted by Ashley Mantha-Hollands
maartenpvink.bsky.social
Check out our new @globalcit.bsky.social report on The Global State of Citizenship!

> Find out more about how citizenship is regulated 🌎
> Focus on gender equality, immigrant inclusion, security of status
> Explore new data on regulations in 191 countries up to 2024

Online now at 🔗 loom.ly/JeESa3g
June 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Reposted by Ashley Mantha-Hollands
globalcit.bsky.social
🌍 Just launched: The Global State of Citizenship 2025 report ⚡

Explore trends in citizenship laws across 191 countries (2020–2024), including dual citizenship, gender equality, immigrant inclusion & more 📊

🔗 Read the full report: globalgovernanceprogramme.eui.eu/global-state...
Global State of Citizenship Report - Global Governance Programme
globalgovernanceprogramme.eui.eu
June 19, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Reposted by Ashley Mantha-Hollands
eui-schuman.bsky.social
Join the GLOBALCIT team for thr launch the Global State of Citizenship report & the third edition of the GLOBALCIT Citizenship Law Dataset.

Based on data from 191 countries, key findings on current citizenship legislation around the world will be presented.

Register now🔗 www.eui.eu/events?id=57...
June 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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maartenpvink.bsky.social
Very excited about next week's launch of a ✨ new @globalcit.bsky.social report on the *Global State of Citizenship*, accompanying the update of our GLOBALCIT Citizenship Law Dataset!

Stay tuned for more updates next week & register for our webinar on 18 June 5-6pm CET:

www.eui.eu/events?id=57...
June 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Reposted by Ashley Mantha-Hollands
lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social
On June 8-9, Italy will hold a referendum, including one question on reducing naturalisation residency from 10 to 5 years.

With @maartenpvink.bsky.social & @yajnagovind.bsky.social we suggest that this would align Italy’s citizenship laws with much of Europe.

firenze.repubblica.it/dossier/fire...
Italy’s citizenship referendum: a chance to catch up with Europe
In this article, experts in migration and citizenship policies, applied labor, and public economics discuss the upcoming referendum in Italy, examining its pot…
firenze.repubblica.it
June 3, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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maartenpvink.bsky.social
Good

edition.cnn.com/2025/05/22/e...
Lesbian mothers win legal status in Italy IVF ruling | CNN
Italy’s Constitutional Court said on Thursday that same-sex female couples who use in vitro fertilization (IVF) abroad can both be legally recognized as parents in Italy, even if one is not the biolog...
edition.cnn.com
May 23, 2025 at 7:05 AM
ashleymhollands.bsky.social
Had a great chat with @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social and @mpc-eui.bsky.social about the connections between migration and citizenship research ☺️
mpc-eui.bsky.social Migration Policy Centre @mpc-eui.bsky.social · May 21
Why do some people gain access to rights, mobility, or full membership in a country—while others are excluded?

To unpack the themes of this year’s MPC-GLOBALCIT conference, we spoke with 2️⃣ participating scholars: Ashley Mantha-Hollands & Lorenzo Piccoli

Full interview 📌 www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...
May 22, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Reposted by Ashley Mantha-Hollands
andrewpgeddes.bsky.social
Two days well spent at the @mpc-eui.bsky.social @globalcit.bsky.social annual conference with a great bunch of interesting contributions on the contested boundaries of global migration and citizenship
May 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
ashleymhollands.bsky.social
I wrote about the "lost Canadians" for the latest @globalcit.bsky.social forum debate. If you're curious about what might motivate governments to "repair citizenship", read here!
globalcit.bsky.social GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · Mar 25
❗New Forum Entry ❗

Who are the "Lost Canadians" and what does their story reveal about citizenship as reparations? 🇨🇦

@ashleymhollands.bsky.social asks: are citizenship "reparations" about justice or just another way to reinforce racialised inclusion/exclusion? ⚖️ 🤔

🔗 tinyurl.com/2m6eaa7k
March 25, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Reposted by Ashley Mantha-Hollands
france.theconversation.com
If it comes into force, President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship could have consequences for people and processes in the US and abroad.
Ending US birthright citizenship could have consequences for LGBTQ+ couples, lower-income parents and the surrogacy market
If it comes into force, President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship could have consequences for people and processes in the US and abroad.
theconversation.com
March 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Reposted by Ashley Mantha-Hollands
eui-eu.bsky.social
What happens if the US ends birthright citizenship? The impact could go beyond undocumented communities—affecting LGBTQ+ families, lower-income parents & surrogacy. EUI scholars @ashleymhollands.bsky.social & @jdzankic.bsky.social break it down in @theconversation.com 📌

🗞️ Read more: buff.ly/j76dgN0
Ending US birthright citizenship could have consequences for LGBTQ+ couples, lower-income parents and the surrogacy market
If it comes into force, President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship could have consequences for people and processes in the US and abroad.
buff.ly
March 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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maartenpvink.bsky.social
Important @theconversation.com piece by @ashleymhollands.bsky.social & @jdzankic.bsky.social on how the attempt to restrict birthright citizenship would also spark return to heteronormative defs of parentage. If conditioned on cit or resident status of parent, it matters a lot who “counts” as parent
March 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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maartenpvink.bsky.social
Adding to 🧵 a link to post discussing how the attempt to restrict birthright citizenship would also spark return to heteronormative defs of parentage. If conditioned on cit or resident status of parent, it matters a lot who “counts” as parent.
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March 6, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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jdzankic.bsky.social
Laws must be certain, and their consequences foreseeable. This is especially important for people bringing new life into this world with the help of assisted reproduction technologies (ART).
March 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
ashleymhollands.bsky.social
@jdzankic.bsky.social and I wrote about the broader consequences of the end of birthright citizenship in the US...

Read here👇

theconversation.com/ending-us-bi...
Ending US birthright citizenship could have consequences for LGBTQ+ couples, lower-income parents and the surrogacy market
If it comes into force, President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship could have consequences for people and processes in the US and abroad.
theconversation.com
March 5, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Reposted by Ashley Mantha-Hollands
peterspiro.bsky.social
My thoughts on the birthright citizenship order at @globalcit.bsky.social - was going to go with “gambit” but seemed too dignified
Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Chicanery - Globalcit
Among his first actions as re-installed president, Donald Trump issued a January 20 executive order purporting to roll back territorial birthright citizenship in the United States. Under the order, US...
globalcit.eu
January 31, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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globalcit.bsky.social
Confused about Trump’s Executive Order? 🧐

🚨 It defies the Constitution 📜, challenges Supreme Court precedent ⚖️ & could strip citizenship from millions 🇺🇸

Our U.S Country expert @peterspiro.bsky.social breaks down the implications of Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Chicanery

🔗 tinyurl.com/wbdsrx3y
Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Chicanery - Globalcit
Among his first actions as re-installed president, Donald Trump issued a January 20 executive order purporting to roll back territorial birthright citizenship in the United States. Under the order, US...
tinyurl.com
January 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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globalcit.bsky.social
Thank you to everyone who joined us yesterday for this months seminar with @ashleymhollands.bsky.social

Great discussions and thoughts shared 💭
January 24, 2025 at 10:20 AM
ashleymhollands.bsky.social
Very much looking forward to presenting this paper (co-authored with @jdzankic.bsky.social) on Thursday!

Please join us if you’re in Florence!
globalcit.bsky.social GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · Jan 20
🚨 Join us for this month's GLOBALCIT Seminar! 🚨

🌍 Topic: How thick is blood? The biopolitics of citizenship transmission
👩‍🏫 Speaker: @ashleymhollands.bsky.social

📅 Thursday, 23 January 2025
🕒 12:00–13:00 CET
📍 Sala Triaria, Villa Schifanoia

Register: shorturl.at/wig2p
How thick is blood? The biopolitics of citizenship transmission
Join Ashley Mantha-Hollands as she examines how family dynamics shape citizenship and conceptions of nationhood.
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January 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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maartenpvink.bsky.social
Not exactly glad to be part of this conversation on the coming assault on birthright citizenship, but always good to remind @nytimes.com readers that the 🇺🇸 is, in fact, not the only country in the 🌎 where children born on its territory have a right to citizenship

🧵

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/m...
Birthright Citizenship Under the 14th Amendment Defined America. Will Trump End It? (Gift Article)
The 14th Amendment made the U.S. a place where every child was born equal under the law. That might be about to change.
www.nytimes.com
January 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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globalcit.bsky.social
🌍💡 Apply now for the summer course "Contestations of Citizenship in Times of Global Democratic Backsliding" 📚🗳️

📅 Date: July 7–11, 2025
📍 Location: CEU, Budapest
📝 Application Deadline: February 14, 2025

Join global experts to explore how citizenship policies impact democracy 🌎🔍.

👉 tiny.cc/5yu4001
Contestations of Citizenship in Times of Global Democratic Backsliding | CEU summer course
tiny.cc
January 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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globalcit.bsky.social
Hello BlueSky! We are GLOBALCIT (globalcit.eu ) a global research network based at eui.eu 📝

We are an online observatory committed to fact-based and non-partisan analysis of citizenship laws and electoral rights around the world 🌍🗳️

#migcitsky #citizenship
Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT) - Globalcit
GLOBALCIT is committed to fact-based and non-partisan analysis of citizenship laws and policies around the globe. From 2017 GLOBALCIT is the successor of EUDO CITIZENSHIP.
globalcit.eu
November 18, 2024 at 2:35 PM
ashleymhollands.bsky.social
My latest blog post about Italy’s abhorrent new surrogacy law and how it could put children at risk of statelessness…

globalcit.eu/italys-new-s...
Italy’s new surrogacy law could leave children at the risk of statelessness - Globalcit
On 16 October 2024, Italy passed a law that would make it illegal for couples to go abroad to have a baby through an international surrogacy arrangement. The law, approved by the senate with 84 votes ...
globalcit.eu
November 16, 2024 at 9:41 PM