nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20221207-001541-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 221206s2022||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20221207-001541-0 doi eng 342 23 Schmid, Samuel D. Author aut (orcid)0000-0003-1105-3071 Upgrading German Citizenship - The Unfounded Unease about Easing Naturalization in Germany Schmid, Samuel D. Verfassungsblog 2022-12-06 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier As part of their broader agenda to “modernize” its immigration laws, Germany’s government has proposed to ease immigrants’ access to citizenship. The opposition – especially the CDU – as well as the liberal government coalition partner FDP are not happy with this. Among other things, they are concerned that the new law would seriously diminish the value of German citizenship and insist that immigrants should successfully integrate before they become German nationals. I argue in the following that these concerns, and further claims, are unfounded. CC BY-SA 4.0 Citizenship Dual Citizenship Germany Immigration Integration Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/upgrading-german-citizenship/ raw object