TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goodman,Sara Wallace
TI  - Immigration and membership politics in Western Europe
SN  - 9781107063143 (hardback)
AV  - JV7590 .G66 2014
U1  - 325.4 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Cultural assimilation
KW  - European Union countries
KW  - Social integration
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Citizenship
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Emigration and immigration
N1  - Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Membership matters: concept precision and state identity; 2. Identifying empirical variation in civic-integration policies; 3. Explaining civic-integration diversity: citizenship and government orientation; 4. Examining context: Austria and Denmark; 5. Examining politics: Germany and the UK; 6. Examining interactions and processes: the Netherlands and France; 7. External dimensions of civic integration: requirements for entry; Conclusion: the anchoring of citizenship; Appendix I. Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR); Appendix II. Other indices for civic-integration policy and calculated correlations; Appendix III. Citizenship indicator scores
N2  - "Why are traditional nation-states newly defining membership and belonging? In the twenty-first century, several Western European states have attached obligatory civic-integration requirements as conditions for citizenship and residence, which include promoting language proficiency, country knowledge, and value commitments for immigrants. This book examines civic-integration-policy adoption and adaptation through both medium-N analysis and three paired comparisons to argue that while there is convergence in instruments, there is also significant divergence in policy purpose, design, and outcomes"--
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