Author: EUROMARGINS
Date: Fall 2010

EUMARGINS second policy brief focuses on the impact of citizenship legislation on inclusion and exclusion processes in seven different countries: Norway, Sweden, Estonia, UK, Italy, France and Spain. We discuss the great variation in citizenship policies from country to country and the core principles these different national naturalisation requirements derive from: the origin principle (jus sanguinis), the territorial principle (jus soli) and the residency principle (jus domicili). After highlighting some of the problematic aspects of the increasingly common citizenship tests, we argue that the European Union (EU) should contribute to a region-wide standardisation of the various citizenship legislations of its member states.

http://www.sv.uio.no/iss/english/research/projects/eumargins/policy-briefs/documents/2nd-policy-brief-citizenship-november-3rd-2010-final.pdf

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