Immigration and membership politics in Western Europe / Sara Wallace Goodman.
Publisher: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014Description: xii, 270 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781107063143 (hardback)Subject(s): European Union countries -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy | Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation -- European Union countries | Social integration -- Government policy -- European Union countries | Citizenship -- European Union countries | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / GeneralDDC classification: 325.4 LOC classification: JV7590 | .G66 2014Other classification: POL040000Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations |
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"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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.