McAvay Haley, Waldinger Roger
University of York, York, United Kingdom.
UCLA Department of Sociology, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
Front Sociol. 2021 May 10;6:659372. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2021.659372. eCollection 2021.
Naturalization systems often provide immigrant spouses of citizens with accelerated access to citizenship, but thus far, the impact of such fast-track procedures has yet to be examined by empirical analysis. Toward that end, we leverage a unique feature of French naturalization policy: a dual track system, one for standard naturalization and a second that makes naturalization a right for non-citizens married to citizens. We show that, overall, family-level factors exercise the greatest influence on naturalization decisions relative to individual and contextual factors; further, marriage to French citizens is the single most powerful factor, yielding effects on naturalization in both tracks. However, while marriage to a naturalized citizen promotes standard naturalization, marriage to a French native fosters citizenship the marriage track. Women migrants who marry French natives are particularly likely to naturalize marriage. Contributing to the study of naturalization by attending to the link between two institutions-naturalization and marriage-we show that the effects of an apparent bias toward the familial ties of citizens run up against state efforts to close off membership to outsiders.
入籍制度通常会让公民的移民配偶更快地获得公民身份，但到目前为止，这种快速通道程序的影响尚未通过实证分析进行研究。为此，我们利用了法国入籍政策的一个独特特征：双重轨道系统，一个用于标准入籍，另一个使与公民结婚的非公民享有入籍权。我们表明，总体而言，相对于个人和背景因素，家庭层面的因素对入籍决定的影响最大；此外，与法国公民结婚是最有力的单一因素，在两条轨道上都对入籍产生影响。然而，虽然与入籍公民结婚会促进标准入籍，但与法国本土公民结婚会促进在婚姻轨道上获得公民身份。嫁给法国本土公民的女性移民通过婚姻入籍的可能性特别大。通过关注入籍和婚姻这两个制度之间的联系，我们为入籍研究做出了贡献，表明对公民家庭关系的明显偏袒所产生的影响与国家阻止外部人获得成员身份的努力背道而驰。
