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Dumbrava’s Citizenship Policy Index, which builds on Howard,s citizenship policy index, analyses the
citizenship regulations (citizenship laws and additional
relevant legislation) in sixteen postcommunist countries in two periods of time (in the 1990s and 2000s).
The index focuses on theregulations regarding the acquisition
of citizenship- at birth (ius soli, ius sanguinis and overlapping) and through regular naturalization (without facilitations). In discussing the naturalization rules, a numeric
scale has been designed to measure the “restrictive”-ness of citizenship rules (0-20). In order to measure the restrictiveness of the naturalization regulations, the present codification took into consideration five categories of requirements: residence (4 points), integration language and society/constitution (2+2 points), personal record criminal and political (2+2 points), loyalty- dual citizenship and oath of allegiance (3+1 points) and welfare income and medical situation (2+2 points). The index represents the sum of the indicators.
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