Beyond the ‘West’: Understanding citizenship revocation in a global context common not only to the countries covered here but also to other contexts in which citizenship revocation is making a comeback, including Western states. A number of divergences have also emerged between those cases and the ones analysed here. I have notably advanced that the public defence of an ethnic vision of national membership and the weakness of procedural safeguards against citizenship revocation distinguish the examples here from Western countries, but only to a certain extent. Indeed, those divergences can be seen as the particular expressions of similar processes that are perceptible across contexts. Moreover, those differences do not draw a sharp line between Western and non-Western cases, since the revival of citizenship revocation in Western states is not exempt from the stigmatisation of ethno-racial minorities whilst correlating with the weakening of procedural safeguards. More research needs to be done on citizenship revocation in a global perspective to further investigate the convergences and divergences emerging across contexts. This symposium has taken a first step in this direction. One of the greatest challenges facing future endeavours will certainly lie in the collection of empirical materials. Governments often hide the number of people they target with citizenship revocation orders from the public eye, as well as the arbitrary practices of their administration. As this collection has shown, it is important that scholars, representatives of civil society organisations and journalists share and work together. European University Institute 49