Heterogeneous naturalization effects of dual citizenship reform in migrant destinations : quasi-experimental evidence from Europe

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dc.contributor.authorPETERS, Floris
dc.contributor.authorVINK, Maarten Peter
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-14T15:41:51Z
dc.date.available2023-11-14T15:41:51Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.descriptionPublished online: 13 November 2023en
dc.description.abstractDoes dual citizenship acceptance increase immigrants’ propensity to naturalize and, if so, for whom does this matter most? We exploit exogenous variation in citizenship legislation in 200 migrant-origin countries to identify the effect of destination country policy reform. We hypothesize that the value of the origin country citizenship moderates the reform effect. We test our identification strategy in two West European countries with contrasting reforms: a canonical liberal reform in Sweden (2001) and an atypical restrictive reversal in the Netherlands (1997). We apply a staggered difference-in-differences model employing administrative data on complete migrant populations. We find reform effects remarkably similar in effect size and heterogeneity, with liberalizing reform increasing naturalization rates by 6.7 percentage points and restrictive change decreasing rates by 6.4 percentage points. The effect is concentrated among immigrants from EU and highly developed countries. Our quasi-experimental evidence informs naturalization scholarship and public debate on migrant political integration.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis article (letter) was published Open Access with the support from the EUI Library through the CRUI - CUP Transformative Agreement (2023-2025).en
dc.description.sponsorshipThe research for this paper has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant 682626).en
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dc.identifier.citationAmerican political science review, 2024, Vol. 118, No. 3, pp. 1541-1548en
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S0003055423001193
dc.identifier.endpage1548
dc.identifier.issn0003-0554
dc.identifier.issn1537-5943
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dc.identifier.startpage1541
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/76035
dc.identifier.volume118
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dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen
dc.relationMigrant Life Course and Legal Status Transition
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dc.titleHeterogeneous naturalization effects of dual citizenship reform in migrant destinations : quasi-experimental evidence from Europeen
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