Access to citizenship and its impact on immigrant integration (ACIT) is financed by European Fund for the Integration of Third-country Nationals (administered by DG Home Affairs). The main goals of the research project are to explore the links between acquisition of nationality and the integration processes and to encourage effective measures for facilitating immigrants’ access to citizenship in the EU. In its 18-month programme, ACIT will develop four sets of citizenship indicators on:
- Citizenship laws
- The implementation of citizenship laws
- Rates of citizenship acquisition
- The impact of rates of citizenship acquisition on integration
- The research will take place in all 27 EU Member States and accession candidate and EEA countries (Croatia, Iceland, FYROM Macedonia, Norway, Switzerland, and Turkey)
