Naturalization and Nationality

Bloemraad, Irene; Ueda, Reed

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“…More generally, the American state offers little integration support to contemporary immigrants, providing virtually no assistance in learning English, learning civics, or fostering local organizations that can assist newcomers. Where we find greater state intervention, such as in Canada or around refugee resettlement in the United States, we find higher levels of citizenship (Bloemraad, 2006;Fix, Passel, and Sucher, 2003).…”

Section: Political Machines Mobilization and Alien Suffragementioning

confidence: 76%

“…These rights are not negligible; repeated surveys show that immigrants are interested in citizenship. In Canada, where the relative benefits of citizenship are even smaller than in the United States, naturalization levels today stand much higher than in the United States, a difference that cannot be explained by differences in the immigrants who migrate to the two countries (Bloemraad, 2002(Bloemraad, , 2006.…”

Section: Political Machines Mobilization and Alien Suffragementioning

confidence: 97%

“…As Table 1 shows, citizenship levels declined from 1900 to 1920 among migrant cohorts with similar years of residence. The decline, akin to what we see among immigrants in the last three decades of the 20th century (Schmidley and Gibson, 1999;Bloemraad, 2006), raised fears over ''unsuitable'' or ''unassimilable'' migrants. 2 A number of exceptions exist.…”

Section: Explanations For Naturalizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Since its inception, the United States has had one of the most open citizenship policies in the world, despite ethnoracial and gender restrictions at various periods (Ueda, 2001; Bloemraad and Ueda, 2006). Individuals can acquire U.S. citizenship at birth by being born on American soil or to American parents in a foreign country.…”

Section: Explanations For Naturalizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Citizenship Lessons from the Past: The Contours of Immigrant Naturalization in the Early 20th Century^*

Bloemraad

2006

Social Science Quarterly

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What were the determinants and patterns of naturalization in the first two decades of the 20th century? Low levels of citizenship acquisition among contemporary immigrants are frequently contrasted to the assumed rapid naturalization of prior European migrants, but in truth we know little about the earlier period. Historic data are well suited to investigate four explanations for naturalization: individuals' resources and skills; regulatory and bureaucratic barriers to citizenship; relative costs and benefits of citizenship; and the degree of political mobilization directed to immigrants. Copyright (c) 2006 Southwestern Social Science Association.

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Section: Political Machines Mobilization and Alien Suffragementioning

confidence: 76%

Section: Political Machines Mobilization and Alien Suffragementioning

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Section: Explanations For Naturalizationmentioning

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Citizenship Lessons from the Past: The Contours of Immigrant Naturalization in the Early 20th Century^*

Bloemraad

2006

Social Science Quarterly

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“…Indeed, Judith Shklar () contends, “The tension between an acknowledged ideology of equal political rights and a deep and common desire to exclude large groups of human beings from citizenship has marked every stage of American democracy” (pp. 28–29; see also Bloemraad & Ueda, ; Carter, ; Ong, ).…”

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Model Citizens: The Making of an American Throughout the Naturalization Process

Bishop

2017

Communication, Culture & Critique

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This article chronicles and dissects the U.S. government's narrative communication with immigrants who apply for citizenship by investigating the eligibility requirements for naturalization. I provide a textual analysis of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services' comprehensive Guide to Naturalization. The article uses performance theory as a method of analysis to illuminate the sociopolitical role of the public oath ceremony that concludes each successful applicant's process. Interrogating the narrative of U.S. naturalization through its corresponding media reveals that the tasks required for citizenship supersede matters of legality; they oblige applicants to learn, commit to, and then perform a particular narrative toward the goal of an idealized supercitizenry that reifies the nation's power and legitimacy.

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Match quality and divorce among naturalized U.S. citizens

Dziadula

2022

Southern Economic Journal

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This research investigates the relationship between immigrants' current citizenship status, an observed measure of permanent legal status in the United States, and their likelihood of divorce. Using American Community Survey data, the research examines relatively young immigrants entering their first marriages in the United States as noncitizens. The study finds those who become naturalized U.S. citizens are at least 25% more likely to be divorced than comparable immigrants who remain noncitizens. The work explores whether immigrants with temporary visas value finding naturalized spouses in the marriage market. If so, the small resulting pool of potential spouses may increase the marginal cost of finding new partners at increasing compatibility levels. The immigrants' reservation match quality would then decrease, potentially resulting in suboptimal sorting along other partner compatibility dimensions. If the immigrants establish permanent residency after marriage, their unions might become less stable as the other compatibility characteristics become more important.

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Naturalization and Nationality

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Citizenship Lessons from the Past: The Contours of Immigrant Naturalization in the Early 20th Century^*

Citizenship Lessons from the Past: The Contours of Immigrant Naturalization in the Early 20th Century^*

Model Citizens: The Making of an American Throughout the Naturalization Process

Match quality and divorce among naturalized U.S. citizens

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