A new report by the Global Citizenship Observatory reveals that more than a third of countries can revoke citizenship based on national security concerns. This trend, which has intensified since the 2001 terrorist attacks, is evident in laws enacted by 18 European nations between 2000 and 2020. The report identifies four specific grounds for this citizenship stripping, with nearly 80% of countries having provisions in place. The increasing global incidence of armed conflict and terrorism is driving these changes, reflecting a heightened securitization of citizenship laws.
With the growing number of armed conflicts and incidence of terrorism worldwide, many countries have introduced provisions for withdrawing the citizenship of a person on the basis of national security grounds. Over a third of countries, including many European ones, can now strip a person of their citizenship when their actions are seen as disloyal or threatening to state security, the report says, and the trend has been expanding.
Between 2000 and 2020, 18 European countries put in place measures to deprive persons of citizenship because of national security or to counter terrorism. Before 2001, these measures were virtually absent, the report says.
The report identifies four ways in which citizens can be stripped of their status on security grounds. Nearly 80 percent of countries have rules covering at least one of these situations.
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