Immigration and Membership Politics in Western Europe
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Immigration and Membership Politics in Western Europe

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Immigration and Membership Politics in Western Europe

About this book

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 language proficiency, country knowledge and value commitments for immigrants. This book examines this membership 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. To explain this variation, this book focuses on the continuing, dynamic interaction of institutional path dependency and party politics. Through paired comparisons of Austria and Denmark, Germany and the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands and France, this book illustrates how variations in these factors - as well as a variety of causal processes - produce divergent civic integration policy strategies that, ultimately, preserve and anchor national understandings of membership.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Figures
  8. Tables
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 Membership matters: concept precision and state identity
  12. 2 Identifying empirical variation in civic integration policies
  13. 3 Explaining civic integration diversity: citizenship legacy and government orientation
  14. 4 Examining context: Austria and Denmark
  15. 5 Examining politics: Germany and the United Kingdom
  16. 6 Examining interactions and processes: the Netherlands and France
  17. 7 External dimensions of civic integration: requirements for entry
  18. Conclusion: the anchoring of citizenship
  19. Appendix I Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) on languages
  20. Appendix II Other indices for civic integration policy and calculated correlations
  21. Appendix III Citizenship indicator scores
  22. References
  23. Index