Acquisition and Loss of Nationality|Volume 2: Country Analyses : Policies and Trends in 15 European Countries

Abstract

IMISCOE is a European Commission-funded Network of Excellence of more than 350 scientists from various research institutes that specialise in migration and integration issues in Europe. These researchers, who come from all branches of the economic and social sciences, the humanities and law, implement an integrated, multidisciplinary and internationally comparative research program that focuses on Europe's migration and integration challenges.Within the program, existing research is integrated and new research lines are developed that involve issues crucial to European-level policy making and provide a theory-based design to implement new research.The publication program of IMISCOE is based on five distinct publication profiles, designed to make its research and results available to scientists, policymakers and the public at large. High-quality manuscripts written by IMISCOE members, or in cooperation with IMISCOE All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the written permission of both the copyright owner and the author of the book. Tables Table 1.1 Naturalisations by legal basis of acquisition in Austria 44 Table 1.2 Naturalisations by former nationality in Austria 45 Table 2.1 Acquisition of Belgian nationality 86 Table 3.1 ContentsComposition of the Danish population 133 Table 3.2 Shift to Danish nationality 134 Table 3.3 Refusals of naturalisation in Denmark (including dropped cases) 135 From summer 2004 to the end of 2005 an international network of researchers analysed the rules and practices regulating the acquisition and loss of nationality in the fifteen 'old' EU Member States. The results of this EU-funded project with the acronym NATAC (The acquisition of nationality in EU Member States: rules, practices and quantitative developments) are published in two volumes. The first volume consists of comparative reports on specific modes of acquiring and losing nationality, on nationality statistics, on European trends in nationality legislation and on statuses of 'denizenship' and 'quasi-citizenship'. It also contains an account of the comparative methodology that has been developed specifically for this project, a chapter on international and European law and an assessment of the implementation of nationality law from the perspective of NGOs counselling immigrants who apply for naturalisation. The second volume consists of chapters that provide in-depth analyses of each country in our sample. In addition to these two volumes, we make available statistical data, the answers to our questionnaires and more extensive versions of several comparative chapters on the internet at www.imiscoe.org/natac. We hope that this material will be widely used for further research. Whereas Volume 1 focuses on cross-country comparison, the country chapters collected in Volume 2 anal...