This paper explores the relationship of immigrant citizenship ascension and the effect on the naturalized citizen … for immigrant ascension to citizenship by entry class and human capital requirements for country specific examples. …

effectiveness of these policies, researchers have recently started to quantify immigration and citizenship policies and built … citizenship research. This special issue brings together scholars from North America and Europe who have been at the forefront of …

question by exploring survey data from 21 European countries and leveraging variation in citizenship laws across countries …-significant effects on the latter group. We then further explore the heterogeneity of returns to citizenship in a Marginal Treatment … obtain citizenship, suggesting that a relaxation of eligibility constraints would yield benefits for both migrants and host …

Several European countries have reformed their citizenship policies over the past decades. There is much to learn from … their experience of how citizenship works; for whom it works; and what rules and policies matter for integration. The … citizenship increases take-up and improves the economic, educational, political and social integration of immigrants. Other …