Prof Jo Shaw’s work informs the Scottish Referendum on Independence debate

A recent paper, Scotland Analysis: Borders and citizenship produced by the Home Office to help inform the debate on the forthcoming Scottish Referendum on Independence, has cited work written by Prof Jo Shaw.

Prof Shaw’s working paper Citizenship in an independent Scotland: legal status and political implications was cited in the paper which was presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for the Home Department.

The Government paper looks at the implications for borders and citizenship should Scotland vote ‘Yes’ on the 18^th September. It outlines ‘how the current UK framework benefits the whole of the UK, including Scotland, explores the challenges which an independent Scottish state could face in assuming control of its borders and considers the difficult choices that the people in Scotland would have to face on issues such as citizenship and nationality.’ In addition to Jo Shaw’s work, which was inspired by her work on citizenship in the new states of South East Europe, the paper also cites work by Igor Štiks, CITSEE senior researcher, and other collaborators working within the framework of the EUDO Citizenship Observatory which Jo Shaw co-directs.

You can download the full analysis paper from www.gov.uk/scotlandanalysis.

Prof Shaw’s paper can be downloaded from the CITSEE website: www.citsee.ed.ac.uk/working_papers/files/CITSEE_WORKING_PAPER_2013-34.pdf