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Adopting a comparative approach, the book examines the evolution of nationality law across the European Union since WWI. It explores the hypothesis that two factors, the experience of large-scale non-European immigration and the need to integrate a large and growing third country national population, have forced a convergence in European nationality law. The book accords attention to the role of gender and decolonization in reforms to nationality law.

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Randall Hansen is Lecturer in Politics at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.

Patrick Weil is Director of Research at CNRS, La Sorbonne, Paris.

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