Earning Rights: Economic Status and Access to Citizenship

This Paper sets out the state of the art in relation to the meaning and implications of the acquisition of national citizenship, together with theoretical indications for the significantly less well-researched area of LTR status. A comparative analysis of national policies for citizenship and LTR status will be carried out, concerning the regulation of access to the two statuses on the basis of economic resource requirements. Our analysis is based on national legal frameworks in the 27 EU member states. This analysis was informed by data from the European Union Observatory on Citizenship (EUDO Citizenship) and from an assessment of national laws.
Furthermore, the national policy requirements will be correlated with actual rates of naturalisation in the countries under study, in order to examine the influence of policies that include economic and employment requirements on immigrants’ likelihood to naturalise. This section is grounded in existing research on naturalisation rates, propensities and causal relationships, combined with a comparative analysis of these requirements from the Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX)1 as they interact with naturalisation rates in the EU.
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