In this study, we contribute to the literature about the effects of improving access to citizenship on integration outcomes. Hereby, we exploit exogenous variation from two citizenship reforms in Germany to estimate the effects of residency requirements on perceived discrimination, which is...

The present volume of the Spring 2024 Standard Eurobarometer survey focuses on European citizenship. Here we analyse the following issues: Attachment of Europeans to the European Union, particularly compared with attachment to respondent's city/town/village, to their country and to Europe. The...

The leaflet summarizes Summary some of the main findings from the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) conducted in 2022. The study indicates that 8th-grade students who have had enhanced opportunities to engage with civic education show a significantly more favourable...

EU citizenship is a unique concept. If you are a national of one of the 27 EU Member States, then you are also automatically an EU citizen. This enables you to enjoy certain rights and benefits that are distinct from being a national of an EU Member State. What's more, these rights are valid in...

EU citizenship is a unique concept. If you are a national of one of the 27 EU Member States, then you are also automatically an EU citizen. This enables you to enjoy certain rights and benefits that are distinct from being a national of an EU Member State. What's more, these rights are valid in...

We live in an era dominated by major environmental issues, for which countries try to bring solutions considering the philosophy of sustainability. As a concept concerning all humanity, ecological citizenship is regarded as an action to be taken to solve these problems. It is crucial for tourism...

This document summarises key messages of the 2023 Issue paper on citizenship education, produced within the European Education Area strategic framework Working group on equality and values in education and training (2021-2025). This executive summary presents the main challenges and points for...

This document summarises key messages of the 2023 Issue paper on citizenship education, produced within the European Education Area strategic framework Working group on equality and values in education and training (2021-2025). This executive summary presents the main challenges and points for...

This study investigates the multifaceted factors influencing immigrants' naturalization intentions, with a primary focus on legal requirements and the implementation of naturalization laws. It distinguishes between different immigrant groups, such as refugees, European Union (EU) citizens, and...

This paper investigates whether citizenship of immigrant students in the host country influences their choice of majors, and whether these effects differ by gender. Using detailed students' data from an Italian university, combined with characteristics of the countries of origin, I examine the...

Acquiring flexible citizenship through education of transnational immigrants is an important way to realize class transition and obtain a better life. However, when immigrants cross space and social class, they generally also cross the cultural fields, which brings about the problems of...

This paper examines the impact of introducing birthright citizenship in Germany on the educational trajectories of second-generation immigrants. Our identification strategy exploits a legal change in 2000 that granted children of foreigners with longtime residency automatic citizenship at birth....

Das Bundeskabinett hat einen Gesetzentwurf zur Modernisierung des Staatsangehörigkeitsrechts beschlossen. Dadurch kann sich der Bildungserfolg von Kindern mit Migrationshintergrund verbessern. Denn: Wenn Kinder mit Migrationshintergrund einen deutschen Pass erhalten, müssen sie seltener eine...

The tax gap is an increasingly common mechanism for assessing the mismatch between tax that theoretically should be collected, and tax that is actually collected. There are many countries that attempt to estimate what can be conceived of as a ‘revenue loss” and is in effect an absence of...

The United States, it is widely believed, is at a moment of constitutional crisis. At no time since the Civil War era has it seemed more likely that what James Madison called the “experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people”—the experiment in democratic constitutional...

This paper addresses a fundamental issue underlying the international tax system in the 21st century: the use of citizenship as a jurisdictional basis for imposing income tax liability. As a general matter, the United States is the only developed country that allegedly taxes its citizens living...

Das Bundeskabinett hat einen Gesetzentwurf zur Modernisierung des Staatsangehörigkeitsrechts beschlossen. Dadurch kann sich der Bildungserfolg von Kindern mit Migrationshintergrund verbessern. Denn: Wenn Kinder mit Migrationshintergrund einen deutschen Pass erhalten, müssen sie seltener eine...

Since the 1990s, global cultural shifts driven by neoliberalism have ushered in significant changes in the institutions of citizenship. This has given rise to an increasingly agentic conception of the individual, with strong meritocratic ideological underpinnings, as manifested across a wide...

2023 marks the 30th anniversary of the entry into force of the Maastricht Treaty, which established the citizenship of the European Union. EU citizenship and the rights it confers lie at the heart of the EU. Any person who holds the nationality of a Member State is automatically also an EU...

The Standard Eurobarometer 99.4 (EB99) survey Summer 2023 was conducted from 31 May to 25 June 2023 in 39 countries or territories: the 27 Member States of the European Union (EU), seven candidate countries (Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Moldova, Serbia, Türkiye and Bosnia and...

Is naturalization an effective tool to boost refugees' labor market integration? We address this novel empirical question by exploring survey data from 21 European countries and leveraging variation in citizenship laws across countries, time, and migrant groups as a source of exogenous variation...

This chapter engages with the tensions and contradictions of EU citizenship by introducing the status as a double-edged sword for European social security. Reviewing both law and practice in the Member States, the chapter argues that EU citizenship continues to create extra layers of protection...

Based on observational studies, conventional wisdom suggests that citizenship carries economic benefits. We leverage a randomized experiment from New York where low-income registrants who wanted to become citizens entered a lottery to receive fee vouchers to naturalize. Voucher recipients were...

In 1767, the young Phillis Wheatley wrote from her position of slavery in the Wheatley home of Boston to “ye sons of Science” at Harvard College, telling them to “[i]mprove your privileges while they stay.” She beheld the startling privileges of learning and discovery bestowed upon an...

Exploration of Prenatal Tourism and Birthright Citizenship explores the multifaceted dimensions of prenatal tourism and birthright citizenship, shedding light on the motivations driving families to pursue these paths, the legal frameworks that support or challenge these practices, and the...

Dass auf Dauer in Deutschland lebende Zuwanderer und ihre Nachkommen die deutsche Staatsangehörigkeit erwerben, ist nicht nur in ihrem eigenen Interesse. Auch für die gesamtgesellschaftliche Entwicklung ist es wichtig, dass nicht größere Bevölkerungsgruppen entstehen, die von den...

This provocation shows how five emerging digital citizenship regimes are rescaling European nation-states through a taxonomy: (i) the globalised/generalisable regime called pandemic citizenship that clarifies how post-COVID-19 datafication processes have amplified the emergence of four digital...

The current rules on acquisition of British citizenship originate in the British Nationality Act 1981. It has been amended by later Acts and supplemented by secondary legislation, but it is in the 1981 Act that basic rules reside. At the time that legislation was conceived and drafted, little if...

We analyze the relationship between natives' attitudes towards citizenship acquisition for foreigners and trust. Our hypothesis is that, in sub-Saharan Africa, the slave trade represents the deep factor behind contemporary attitudes toward citizenship, with more intense exposure to historical...

This paper investigates whether citizenship acquisition affects immigrants' employment in Belgium. To do so, we rely on a longitudinal database, over the period 2008-2014, coupling administrative data from the Crossroads Bank for the Social Security (CBSS) and survey data from the Labour Force...