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Integrating With Passports
Can we integrate immigrants with passports? Possibly, but this requires basing citizenship on civic ideals and not national ones.
Integration. One of the major challenges of modern society is integrating immigrants. It has been a key topic in many Western elections, where right-wing parties are enjoying great support for their anti-immigrant platform. Albeit that parties disagree on the remedy, most agree that integrating new citizens is a major issue that demands solutions.
One way of integrating immigrations is by naturalization and granting citizenship. But naturalization is a sensitive topic; once an immigrant has become a citizen of a their new nation, it cannot be taken back. Therefore, the effects of naturalization are of major importance.
Outlying the assumptions
There are two views of the effect of naturalization. One is that naturalization is the crown of succesfull integration and the prize of citizenship is one that motivates immigrants to become integrated. The other is that citizenship is a catalyst for becoming better integrated. The view is that once an immigrant has become a citizen, this will then prompt more integration of the individual immigrant.
