Citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness

Results displayed in this section refer to research on policies, laws, legislation, regulation or measures concerning citizenship, naturalisation and statelessness. It includes the rights and entitlement to citizenship and naturalisation, and the type of protection and rights provided to stateless migrants. Naturalisation means that a State grants nationality to a non-national through a formal procedure.

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Barrier to Naturalization Index (BNI)

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The Barrier to Naturalization Index focuses specifically on the naturalization process and jus soli. It takes twelve requirements of the naturalization process into account: (1) good conduct, (2) willingness to integrate, (3) language skills, (4) dual nationality, (5) application complexity, (6) application fees, (7) state discretion in granting citizenship, (8) residency requirements, (9) jus sanguinis laws preventing jus soli naturalization of children, (10) jus sanguinis concerning children of parents born in country (double jus soli), (11) women allowed to maintain citizenship after marrying a foreigner, and (12) mothers when married to a foreigner being able to transfer citizenship to their children. It purposely excludes entry requirements, unemployment, and other variables. Data were taken from the naturalization laws of each country and reports from foreign country consulates in the United States. For the index, components were grouped into four categories with a weighing scheme. The total index was constructed as a percentage of the maximum score of the highest-scoring country, so it varied from 0 to 1.
Year 2002
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1 Data Set

Citizenship Policy Index (CPI)

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The Citizenship Policy Index (CPI) addresses policies for citizenship acquisition for the EU15 member states (for years 1980 and 2008), and other 10 EU member states entered in 2004 (for 2004). CPI consists of the simple aggregation of three factors: whether or not a country grants jus soli, the minimum length of residency requirement for naturalization; whether or not naturalised immigrants are allowed to hold dual citizenship. It also takes into account language and civic integration requirements that a number of countries have mandated as a condition for naturalization. Each component is scored on a 0-2 scale, yielding a 0-6-point range for the total index. CPI draws on in-depth research by individual country experts, within a common methodological framework. CPI allows for distinguishing between three groups of countries, depending on whether their citizenship policies can be characterised as ‘restrictive’ (scores between 0 and 1.5), ‘medium’ (over 1.5 but less than 4) or ‘liberal’ (4 and above).
Year 2008
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3 Data Set

Citizenship Regime Inclusiveness Index (CITRIX)

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This the Citizenship Regime Inclusiveness Index (CITRIX) mainly builds on selected and partly modified indicators of the Migration and Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) strand on the Access to Nationality. It also uses the citizenship indicators of Fitzgerald et al. (2014) as well as the resources offered by DEMIG and GLOBALCIT as further cornerstones for data collection. Covering a total of 23 OECD countries from 1980 to 2014 (805 country-year observations), CITRIX zooms in on four fundamental components of citizenship regimes relating to the acquisition of nationality by immigrants and their children: (1) the residence duration requirement for ordinary naturalization; (2) the toleration of dual citizenship in naturalization; (3) further naturalization requirements, namely language and citizenship tests as well as economic and criminal record condition; and (4) the strength of jus soli.
Year 2014
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MIGRANTS INTO CITIZENS - THE IMPOSITION OF JUS-SOLIS IN FRANCE DURING THE LATE 1800S

Authors R BRUBAKER
Year 1993
Journal Name Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales
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11 Journal Article

Immigrant Inclusion Index (IMIX)

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Immigrant Inclusion Index (IMIX) is a quantitative tool for measuring the electoral inclusion of immigrants in 20 EU member states for 2010. The index includes both de jure (outputs) and de facto (outcomes) indicators. The jure strand assesses the laws regulating the immigrants’ access to citizenship and alien voting rights. Therefore, under de jure indicators, access to citizenship (ius soli, naturalization, and toleration of multiple citizenship for immigrants) and alien enfranchisement (active suffrage for non-citizen residents in legislative and presidential elections, and referend – national and local level) are included. De jure indicators are drawn from EUDO Citizenship Law Indicators. Within the de facto dimension the authors measure the citizenship rate, the naturalization rate, and the alien enfranchisement rate. Data are harmonized and the measurement level is ordinal and ranges from 0 (theoretical minimum) to 100 (theoretical maximum). To aggregate the components in the respective dimensions, they applied the arithmetic mean. Finally, the authors aggregated the de jure and the de facto dimension by applying the geometric mean.
Year 2010
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12 Data Set

Global Citizenship Law: International Migration and Constitutional Identity

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Year 2017
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13 Project

GlobalCitizenshipLaw: Global Citizenship Law: International Migration and Constitutional Identity

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Year 2017
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14 Project

SWISSCIT index on citizenship law in Swiss cantons : conceptualisation, measurement, aggregation

Authors Jean-Thomas ARRIGHI, Lorenzo PICCOLI
Year 2018
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15 Working Paper

Dimensions of citizenship policy in the post-Yugoslav space : divergent path

Authors Jelena DZANKIC
Year 2017
Journal Name Central and East European migration review, 2017, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 31-48
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17 Journal Article

Citizenship Implementation indicators (CITIMP)

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EUDO Citizenship Implementation Indicators measure on a 0 to 1 scale the formal aspects of naturalisation procedures: promotion activities, documentation requirements, administrative discretion, bureaucratic procedures, and review and appeal options. CITIMP indicators allow for comparisons of the specific steps in the procedure across countries. CITIMP indicators have been calculated for 35 European states, as well as for three German federal provinces. CITIMP indicators are an output of the research project 'Access to Citizenship and its Impact on Immigrant Integration (ACIT). = The project was financially supported by the European Fund for the Integration of Third Country Nationals, administered by DG Home Affairs. CITIMP indicators were computed on the grounds of self-collected information: questionnaires on implementation of citizenship policies were filled out by country experts.
Year 2012
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19 Data Set

Citizenship law indicators (CITLAW)

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CITLAW indicators address citizenship laws (acquisition and loss of citizenship) in Europe. Basic indicator scores are calculated on the basis of a list of substantive and procedural requirements for each mode of acquisition or loss using both additive and weighting formulas. CITLAW indicators are also aggregated at different levels in order to analyse more general features of citizenship laws. The 6 highest level CITLAW indicators that are calculated using all 45 basic indicators are: ius sanguinis, ius soli, residence-based ordinary naturalisation, naturalisation on specific grounds, voluntary renunciation and withdrawal/lapse. CITLAW indicators have been calculated for 42 European states for 2011 and 2016. Coding of CITLAW indicators is based on an assessment of legal provisions in national citizenship laws.
Year 2016
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24 Data Set

Could Canada Abolish Birthright Citizenship?

Authors Alan Freckelton
Year 2021
Journal Name Journal of International Migration and Integration
Citations (WoS) 1
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26 Journal Article

Report on Citizenship Law : Mozambique

Authors Patrícia JERÓNIMO
Description
This report discusses citizenship in Mozambique. It explores the history of citizenship in this country, modes of acquisition and loss, and current debates and reform plans regarding citizenship policy.
Year 2019
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27 Report

Report on Citizenship Law : Uganda

Authors Tigranna ZAKARYAN
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This report discusses citizenship in Uganda. It explores the history of citizenship in this country, modes of acquisition and loss, and current debates and reform plans regarding citizenship policy.
Year 2019
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28 Report

Report on citizenship law : Israel

Authors Yossi HARPAZ, Ben HERZOG
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This report discusses citizenship in Israel. It explores the history of citizenship in this country, modes of acquisition and loss, and current debates and reform plans regarding citizenship policy.
Year 2018
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29 Report

Report on citizenship law : Myanmar

Authors José María ARRAIZA, Olivier VONK
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This report discusses citizenship in Myanmar. It explores the history of citizenship in this country, modes of acquisition and loss, and current debates and reform plans regarding citizenship policy.
Year 2017
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30 Report

Dumbrava’s Citizenship Policy Index

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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.
Year 2009
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31 Data Set

Immigrant integration and access to citizenship in the European Union: the role of origin countries

Authors Maarten Peter VINK
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This position paper addresses the following research question: “How do actors in sending countries influence the integration of immigrants in the European Union, with regard to the access to citizenship?” The paper argues that the access to citizenship can be viewed as an important factor in the process of integration of immigrants in the destination country. The role of actors in third countries, while only one of the factors that determine citizenship take-up among integration, is crucial as particularly by allowing dual citizenship, countries of origin can take away a major constraint for immigrants in the naturalisation process. Research shows that naturalisation rates are positively impacted by tolerant policies towards dual citizenship. The report discusses the state-of-the-art on the propensity to naturalise among immigrants, as well as on the relation between citizenship and integration. It also presents some key findings from the literature and outlines the relevant questions for further research.
Year 2013
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32 Report

Report on citizenship law : Azerbaijan

Authors Maxim TABACHNIK
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This report discusses citizenship in Azerbaijan. It explores the history of citizenship in this country, modes of acquisition and loss, and current debates and reform plans regarding citizenship policy.
Year 2019
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34 Report

Report on citizenship law : Australia

Authors Rayner THWAITES
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This report discusses citizenship in Australia. It explores the history of citizenship in this country, modes of acquisition and loss, and current debates and reform plans regarding citizenship policy.
Year 2017
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35 Report

Report on citizenship law : Nepal

Authors Sabin SHRESTHA
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This report discusses citizenship in Nepal. It explores the history of citizenship in this country, modes of acquisition and loss, and current debates and reform plans regarding citizenship policy.
Year 2017
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36 Report

Report on citizenship law : Angola

Authors Patrícia JERÓNIMO
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This report discusses citizenship in Angola. It explores the history of citizenship in this country, modes of acquisition and loss, and current debates and reform plans regarding citizenship policy.
Year 2019
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37 Report

Report on citizenship law : India

Authors Ashna ASHESH, Arun THIRUVENGADAM
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This report discusses citizenship in India. It explores the history of citizenship in this country, modes of acquisition and loss, and current debates and reform plans regarding citizenship policy.
Year 2017
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38 Report

Report on citizenship law : Afghanistan

Authors Abdullah ATHAYI
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This report discusses citizenship in Afghanistan. It explores the history of citizenship in this country, modes of acquisition and loss, and current debates and reform plans regarding citizenship policy.
Year 2017
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39 Report

Report on citizenship law : Sri Lanka

Authors Luwie GANESHATHASAN, Asanga WELIKALA
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This report discusses citizenship in Sri Lanka. It explores the history of citizenship in this country, modes of acquisition and loss, and current debates and reform plans regarding citizenship policy.
Year 2017
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40 Report

Report on citizenship law : Dominican Republic

Authors Ernesto SAGAS
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This report discusses citizenship in the Dominican Republic. It explores the history of citizenship in this country, modes of acquisition and loss, and current debates and reform plans regarding citizenship policy.
Year 2017
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41 Report

Regulating Mixed Marriages through Acquisition and Loss of Citizenship

Authors Betty de Hart
Year 2015
Journal Name The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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42 Journal Article

Index of fees and economic requirements for naturalization (overall ECN index)

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Year 2014
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46 Data Set

Immigrant naturalisation, employment and occupational status in western Europe

Authors Rezart HOXHAJ, Maarten Peter VINK, Tijana PROKIC-BREUER
Year 2019
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51 Working Paper

Catalyst or Crown: Does Naturalization Promote the Long-Term Social Integration of Immigrants?

Authors JENS HAINMUELLER, DOMINIK HANGARTNER, GIUSEPPE PIETRANTUONO
Year 2017
Journal Name American Political Science Review
Citations (WoS) 22
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57 Journal Article

Which Indicators are Most Useful for Comparing Citizenship Policies?

Authors Marc HELBLING, Rainer BAUBÖCK, Marc HELBLING, ...
Year 2011
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64 Working Paper

Naturalization policy index

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The index analyses naturalization policies in twenty-six Western immigrant-receiving democracies in order to show how different countries deal with newcomers (year of reference: 2009). The index looks at five aspects of a country’s citizenship and naturalization policies. First, it considers whether a country grants automatic citizenship only to children of citizens (ius sanguinis) or only to those who are born within the country’s border (ius soli). Second, every naturalization policy stipulates that immigrants have to have lived at least a certain number of years within the borders of the country before they can apply for citizenship. Third, it looks at whether passing a language test is part of the naturalization requirements. These tests vary significantly in difficulty. Fourth, in some countries immigrants cannot be naturalized without passing a citizenship test, while in other countries such a test does not exist. Moreover, these tests vary in nature. Fifth, and finally, it includes whether immigrants are required to give up their former nationality or nationalities before they can become citizens. These five scores are combined in an index that ranges from 0 to 15. Overall, this summary score should give a valid indication of the exclusiveness, or ‘ethnicness’, of a country’s naturalization policy.
Year 2009
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70 Data Set

Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection for Portuguese Citizens Abroad

Authors José Carlos Marques, Pedro Góis
Year 2020
Book Title Migration and Social Protection in Europe and Beyond (Volume 2)
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78 Book Chapter

The ecology of immigrant naturalisation: a life course approach in the context of institutional conditions

Authors Floris Peters, Maarten Vink, Hans Schmeets
Year 2015
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Citations (WoS) 11
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81 Journal Article

Integration of migrants and reintegration of returnees in Ukraine : legal prospective

Authors Oleksandra PALAGNUK
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The aim of the paper is to address and analyze the process of integration of migrants and returnees into Ukrainian society while applying the following criteria, set by the Migration Integration Policy Index: anti-discrimination and equity; access to education, social benefits system and healthcare; employment opportunities; grade of execution of the right for a freedom of movement and choice of a free place of residence; level of legally-enforced mechanisms aimed at guaranteeing access to citizenship of Ukraine through the process of naturalization as well as various economic and socio-political rights and lawful interests.
Year 2013
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85 Report

How Liberal are Citizenship Tests?

Authors Christian JOPPKE, Rainer BAUBÖCK
Year 2010
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90 Working Paper

Immigration Policies, State Discourses on Foreigners, and the Politics of Identity in Switzerland

Authors Yvonne Riaño, Doris Wastl-Walter
Year 2006
Journal Name Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
Citations (WoS) 31
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95 Journal Article

Citizenship and integration

Authors Christina Gathmann, Christina Gathmann, Julio Garbers, ...
Year 2023
Journal Name Labour Economics
Citations (WoS) 4
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96 Journal Article

Migrant Life Course and Legal Status Transition

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Year 2016
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