Biography

Maarten Vink is Chair in Citizenship Studies and Director of the Global Citizenship research area within the Global Governance Programme at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute. He is also Co-Director of the Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT).

Vink led the research project “Migrant Life Course and Legal Status Transition (MiLifeStatus)” funded by a Consolidator Grant of the European Research Council (2016-2021). He co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Citizenship (OUP, 2017) and has published on immigrant naturalisation, comparative citizenship regimes, dual citizenship, and Europeanization, among others.

Before coming to the EUI, Maarten Vink was a Professor of Political Sociology at Maastricht University, where he was one of the founders of the Maastricht Center for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE). He holds a PhD in Political Science from Leiden University (2003).

Research projects, clusters and working groups

Ongoing

• Citizenship acquisition by immigrants and their descendants: an international legal comparison
• Transnational Democracy in the 21st century

Completed

• The state of citizenship in a wider Europe: towards convergence?
• Migrant life course and legal status transition
• Citizenship and Political Development: Membership Contestation and Liberal Norms around the World
• (Dis)enfranchising migrants: patterns and politics of granting voting rights to non-citizen residents and non-resident citizens in contemporary democracies

Supervisees

• June Haugrud
• Meret Stephan
• Julia Schweers
• Thomas McGee

Fields of expertise

Recent research output

• VINK, Maarten Peter; VAN DER BAAREN, Lucas Jan; BAUBÖCK, Rainer; DZANKIC, Jelena; HONOHAN, Iseult; MANBY, Bronwen (2025), GLOBALCIT Citizenship Law Dataset, Dataset
• VINK, Maarten Peter; DZANKIC, Jelena; BAUBÖCK, Rainer (2025), Citizenship acquisition by immigrants and their descendants : an international legal comparison, Book
• VAN DER BAAREN, Lucas Jan; GERDES, Maria Martha; VINK, Maarten Peter (2025), Waves of securitisation : the rise, fall and resurgence of citizenship stripping regulations in Europe, 1960–2022, Article
• VINK, Maarten Peter; DZANKIC, Jelena; HUDDLESTON, Thomas; MANTHA-HOLLANDS, Ashley; VAN DER BAAREN, Lucas Jan (2025), The global state of citizenship 2025 : gender quality, immigrant inclusion, and security of status, Technical Report
• VINK, Maarten Peter; VAN DER BAAREN, Lucas Jan; REICHEL, David (2025), A global panel dataset of dyadic dual citizenship acceptance, Article
• UMPIERREZ DE REGUERO, Sebastián Antonio; VINK, Maarten Peter (2025), Pathways to external citizenship : the global extension of dual citizenship and voting from abroad, Article

Teaching

Controversies in Citizenship Studies (Spring 2022)