Explaining access to citizenship in Europe : how policies affect naturalisation rates

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dc.contributor.authorDRONKERS, Jaap
dc.contributor.authorVINK, Maarten Peter
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-11T16:52:17Z
dc.date.available2016-03-11T16:52:17Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractIn Europe, a variety of national policies regulate access to citizenship. This article analyses how citizenship policies affect naturalization rates among immigrants. Our analysis confirms that favourable citizenship policies positively affect naturalization rates, especially among first-generation immigrants with more than 5 but fewer than 20 years of residence. However, most variation is explained by other factors. Immigrants from poor, politically unstable, and non-EU countries are more likely to be a citizen of their European country of residence. Other important predictors of the citizenship status of immigrants are language, years of residence (first generation), and age (second generation). Explanations of naturalization rates in Europe should not only take into account institutional conditions but also include other destination and origin country factors and individual characteristics of immigrants.
dc.identifier.citationEuropean Union politics, 2012, Vol.13, No. 3, pp. 390-412
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1465116512440510
dc.identifier.endpage412
dc.identifier.issn1465-1165
dc.identifier.issn1741-2757
dc.identifier.issue3
dc.identifier.startpage390
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/39746
dc.identifier.volume13
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.ispartofEuropean Union politics
dc.titleExplaining access to citizenship in Europe : how policies affect naturalisation rates
dc.typeArticle
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