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Research at Kingston University into statelessness and gender discrimination in nationality laws established the significant and damaging effects attributable to these issues. Following the presentation of this research to the US State Department, the US government submitted a resolution to the United Nations on protecting the right to nationality of women and children, and ending legal discrimination against women in nationality laws, that drew substantially upon the research. This resolution was adopted by the UN, such that the change in UN policy in this area can be traced back to the research carried out at Kingston University.
Enacting citizenship research at The Open University's (OU) Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) is helping to re-define the idea of citizenship by contributing to policy and public debates across Europe. These research ideas are being used by European policymakers to reform European citizenship policies. Activists across Europe are increasingly using the research to give them a vocabulary through which they can understand their collective activism as European citizenship.