The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies has just published their latest working paper, titled ‘Going global: Opportunities and Challenges for the Development of a Comparative Research Agenda on Citizenship Policies at the Global Level’, including a chapter focusing upon MIPEX. Authors of the chapter, Giacomo Solano, Head of Research at the Migration Policy Group, and Thomas Huddleston, Former Research Director at MPG, provide an overview of existing indices on naturalisation policies, subsequently introducing the example of MIPEX.
Titled “Existing Indices on Naturalisation Policies: The Case of MIPEX”, the chapter outlines the MIPEX methodology and the main findings of the MIPEX 2020 edition concerning naturalisation policies, while also linking naturalisation policies to the other areas of integration (e.g. labour market, education, permanent residence and health). In doing so, the authors highlight how MIPEX has recently been extended to countries in the so-called ‘Global South’, marking a shift beyond Western and European-centric analysis.
As such, the chapter represents the broader theme of the Working Paper, namely, the movement beyond European contexts. The idea of this paper originated from the workshop ‘Going Global: Opportunities and Challenges for the Development of a Comparative Research Agenda on Naturalisation Policies at the Global Level’ that was convened in 2021 at the Robert Schuman Centre, under the framework of the Global Citizenship Governance programme and it is focuses on the opportunities and challenges of adopting a global comparative perspective within the field of citizenship studies.
