ChChapter 2: Origins and influences of nationality law nationality rules.54 This is particularly evident with regard to the position of women under the region’s nationality laws.55 The importance attributed in some MENA countries to the Arab and Muslim identity is also visible in, for example, the conditions for naturalisation, whereby being an Arab or Muslim, or from an Arab or Muslim country, is either a requirement for naturalisation or ticket to facilitated procedures.56 It is also an influence that is evident in some MENA countries’ provisions delineating the original body of nationals and policies of “Arabisation” which had a detrimental impact on the enjoyment of nationality in several MENA states, as will be seen in the next sections. The Arab conception of the state has an effect on the application of nationality rules in practice, contributing for instance to discriminatory practices against sub-Saharan immigrants and their children. For example, in Morocco, where women are now entitled to pass nationality to their children, problems have been encountered in the implementation of this important reform where the father in question is subSaharan.57 The “Judaisation”, meanwhile, of the new 54 - N. Butenschon, U. Davis and M. Hassassian (eds), Citizenshi and the State in the Middle East. Approaches and Applications, Syracuse University Press, 2000, from page 49; G. Parolin, Citizenship in the Arab World. Kin, Religion and Nation State, Amsterdam University Press, 2009, from page 29. 55 - A comprehensive discussion of this can be found in chapter 4 of this report. 56 - This is addressed in section 3 of this chapter. 57 - See for instance the research findings in Women’s Refugee Commission, Our Motherland, Our Country. Gender Discrimination and Statelessness in the 49