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The data is not available for reuse without collaboration with the researcher due to its highly personal content. \n\nThe dataset is based on a total of 42 semi-structured interviews and consists of audio recordings (40), transcripts (41), note files (41), and interview material (7 documents). The difference in numbers is due to one interview taking place via e-mail (thus no recording was made or notes taken) and one interview not being recorded as requested by the interviewee (thus no recording or transcript).\n\nThe interviews were conducted with four sets of interviewees: 1. German naturalized citizens (15), 2. Canadian naturalized citizens (15), 3. German citizenship caseworkers (9), 4. three individuals working for the Canadian government, namely one Canadian Member of Parliament (MP), one employee of the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada department, and one office staff member of a Canadian MP. The interviews of set 1 were conducted in the fall of 2021, set 2 in March to August of 2022, set 3 in the fall of 2022 and set 3 between October of 2022 and March 2023. Interviews with German individuals were conducted in German. Interviews with Canadian individuals were conducted in English. \nThe interview materials include 4 different interview guides (2 in English and 2 in German) with one per set of interviews, and 3 vignettes based on set 1 and utilized in set 2.\n\nA total of 3031 minutes of interviews were recorded. Interviews lasted between 30 minutes to three hours and were conducted in a place chosen by the interviewee either in-person or via Zoom or Webex. This includes but is not limited to cafes, interviewees' homes, the researcher's office space, parks and interviewees' places of work. The interviews in subsets 1 and 2 were conducted in the district of Cologne, Germany. The interviews in subsets 2 and 3 were conducted in Toronto, Canada and from the Netherlands digitally (2).\nBased on the interviews with naturalized German citizens (set 1), the researcher extracted 3 real-life vignettes, which were then used as interview material in the conversations with German caseworkers (set 2). 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The 15 interviews include 16 individuals due to one couple being interviewed together (both persons in the couple had migrated to Canada). Their ages ranged from 24 to 80 years old. Ten of them were women and six men. None of them were born in Canada, but all had physically migrated to the territory. Their prior nationalities include Albania (1), the Balkans* (1), Colombia (2), Croatia (1), Ghana (1), Germany (1), Ethiopia (2), Serbia (1), Sri Lanka (1), Turkey (1), United Kingdom (3), United States (2). This list adds up to 17 nationalities due to one interviewee possessing multiple prior to naturalizing in Canada. One interviewee arrived in Canada in the 1950s, one arrived in the 1990s, two arrived in the 2000s, and twelve arrived in the 2010s.\n*concrete nationality not shared by request of the interviewee\n\nSUBSET 4\nThe three individuals interviewed were employed by the Canadian government at the time of data collection. 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