The international diffusion of expatriate dual citizenship

Abstract

While the global increase of expatriate dual citizenship acceptance over the past decades has been widely observed, the temporal and spatial contexts of this trend have remained understudied. Based on a novel data set of expatriate dual citizenship policies worldwide since 1960, we find that dual citizenship toleration has increased in the last half century from one-third to three-quarter of states globally. We argue that these domestic policy changes should be understood in light of normative pressure in a world where restrictions on individual choice in citizenship status are increasingly contested and where liberalisation is reinforced through interdependence and diaspora politics. We apply Cox proportional hazard models to examine dual citizenship liberalisation and find that states are more likely to move to a tolerant policy if neighbouring states have done so and that they tend to do so in conjunction with extending voting rights to citizens residing abroad and receiving remittances from abroad. Contrary to other studies, we do not observe significant variation by regime type.

Data for Politics: Creating an International Research Infrastructure Measuring Democracy

“…Not all of them are in the domain of political science. To give just a few examples, the data have been recently used in research on population health, 48 demography, 49 communication, 50 migration, 51 environmental conservation, 52 or cultural evolution. 53 This is thanks to the fact that it contains numerous indices that go beyond the narrow issues of political regimes.…”

Closing a Backdoor to Dual Citizenship: The German Citizenship Law Reform of 2000 and the Abolishment of the “Domestic Clause”

“…This group regards migrants who are from an origin country that allows dual citizenship and provides reacquisition of citizenship without residency requirement. For information on origin country dual citizenship policies we draw on data from the MACIMIDE Expatriate Dual Citizenship Dataset (Vink et al, 2015 ). The information in this dataset indicates whether origin countries have policies that imply the automatic loss of citizenship upon the voluntary acquisition of another citizenship.…”

Do Diaspora Engagement Policies Endure? An Update of the Emigrant Policies Index (EMIX) to 2017

“…For instance, in providing institutional access to undocumented migrants through innovative documentation, or offering them extensive health services in the reception country, or devising co‐development programs at home, too. Moreover, LAC, as a region, is a pioneer in policies fundamental to emigrants’ capacity to live transnational lives, and in the acceptance of emigrant dual nationality (Vink et al 2019).…”