passportize

present singular third person passportizes · participle present passportizing · participle past passportized · past passportized

1. raretransitiveTo induce (residents of another country) to take up the citizenship of and possess a passport from one's own country (chiefly Russia).

   In fact, whenever the Soviet Union absorbed new territory, one of the first steps was to “passportize” the local population.

   2015, Mark Harrison, One Day We Will Live Without Fear: Everyday Lives Under the Soviet Police State

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   Moldova's unconditional jus soli was unintentional but the government was able to capitalize on it and passportize the majority of Transnistria's residents.

   2019, Maxim Tabachnik, Citizenship, Territoriality, and Post-Soviet Nationhood, page 104