Regime Type, International Migration, And The Politics Of Dual Citizenship Toleration

Keywords

Citizenship; diaspora; emigration; immigration; regime type

Abstract

Why do some countries tolerate dual citizenship while others do not? The answer concerns the interaction between regime type variation and international migration. Democracies with a relatively large migrant stock are more likely to tolerate dual citizenship than democracies with a low migrant stock. Meanwhile, democracies with relatively high emigration rates for the highly educated population are more likely to tolerate dual citizenship than democracies with low emigration rates of the highly educated. In authoritarian states, the opposite is the case: emigration of the highly educated and immigration both reduce the likelihood of dual citizenship toleration. These claims are supported by the evidence from a large n examination of contemporary cross-national data. Understanding dual citizenship helps us address larger questions about the significance of democracy and the nature and scope of nation states.

Publication Date

11-1-2015

Publication Title

International Political Science Review

Volume

36

Issue

5

Number of Pages

510-525

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1177/0192512114535451

Socpus ID

84944069039 (Scopus)

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https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84944069039

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