CChapter 3: Comparative analysis of nationality laws provisions on access to nationality following marriage: apart from Algeria (as already mentioned), the route to nationality for a non-national woman who marries a national man is far less burdensome than that for a non-national man who marries a national woman. On the other hand, it is encouraging to see that none of MENA’s current nationality laws contain provisions that would leave a woman stateless by automatically stripping her of nationality if she marries a foreign man – nationality is only lost, in those countries which provide for it, in the event that she actually acquires her foreign husband’s nationality. Nevertheless, given that it is such a prevalent issue in the region, the background to and consequences of such gendered nationality policy, as well as the context and content of recent reforms to remove discriminatory provisions in several countries, is explored in greater detail in chapter 4.171 It suffices to say here that the MENA has a long way to go before its laws fully catch up with the contemporary perspective of women’s independent nationality rights and with international standards, including those in CEDAW and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. 171 - See also Women’s Refugee Commission, Our Motherland, Our Country. Gender Discrimination and Statelessness in the Middle East and North Africa, June 2013; Z. Albarazi and L. van Waas, “Transformations of nationality legislation in North Africa” in Isin, E., and Nyers, P. (eds) The Routledge Handbook on Global Citizenship Studies, Routledge, 2014. 131