Professional paper
Access to Citizenship of the Population of Foreign Origin in The Netherlands
Dirk Jacobs
; Institute of Social and Political Opinion Research, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Abstract
This contribution looks into the access to citizenship of the population of foreign origin in the Netherlands. It is meant as an introduction for outsiders on the Dutch nationality legislation and a source for some basic recent figures on the foreign population in the Netherlands. A round up is made of the legislation on attribution and acquisition of the Dutch nationality and numbers related to the different procedures of acquisition of Dutch state citizenship are provided. Since this possibility exists for the Netherlands due to qualified data, the numerical importance of the overall population of foreign origin – who are called “allochthones” in the Netherlands – is assessed.
Keywords
state citizenship; nationality legislation; the Netherlands; foreign population; immigrants; allochthones
Hrčak ID:
107383
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Publication date:
30.9.2002.
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