In January 2019, the National Audit Office (NAO) of Malta issued a report on “an investigation of visas issued by the Maltese Consulate...

In discussing the relation between migration and statelessness, we already saw that in 2006 the Member States of the Executive Committee...

De facto travel documents are documents which are adequate to cross borders lawfully as well as to reside in a country, but which have no...

In January 2019 the European Commission published a report on the risks of investor citizenship and residence schemes in the EU. One of...

A camouflage passport is a document, intended to give the impression that it is a tangible passport, delivered in the name of a country...

In 2017, the world counted 258 million international migrants (3.4% of the world’s population). India is the country with the largest...

Migration affects all countries and individuals in an age of intensified globalization. It is entwined with geopolitics, business and...

Parliamentary elections were held in Moldova on 24 February 2019 to elect the 101 members of the Moldovan Parliament. The pro-Russia...

Overseas France consists of two different entities: 1) Overseas Departments and Regions (DROM) which are governed by Article 73 of the...

The final country in our four-part series on non-sovereign Caribbean territories is the Netherlands, which colonised Suriname (until...

A survey of 2011 on the high-income inhabitants in 18 main Chinese cities found that 60 % of people who own assets of RMB 10 million or...

The United States arrived as a new player in the Caribbean region around the turn of the twentieth century. After its victory in the...

In September 2018 a new immigration law “Loi Collomb” was adopted. The law will enter fully into force by 1 March 2019. Here is an...

We are taking up the classic definition of populism suggested by Cas Mudde. Populists are inclined to frame politics as a fight amongst...

In contrast to Britain, as we saw last week, France has always regarded its Caribbean possessions as inherent parts of France which...

The hotspot approach was established by the European Commission as part of the direct action to support EU Member States situated at the...

After a period of colonisation by different European powers, decolonisation in the Caribbean officially began with the 1791 Haitian...

In recent months the Future Citizen Institute has reported intensively on the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration...

In 2015, the Heads of State and Governments of the African Union adopted the Agenda 2063, a plan for socio-economic change in Africa over...

The United Nations projected that by 2050 2,5 billion people will have moved to cities, 90% of which are situated in Africa and Asia....