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Immigration and membership politics in Western Europe / Sara Wallace Goodman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goodman, Sara Wallace, 1979- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social integration--Government policy.
- Social integration.
- Immigrants--Cultural assimilation.
- European Union countries--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
- European Union countries.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Government policy.
- Immigrants--Cultural assimilation--European Union countries.
- Immigrants.
- Social integration--Government policy--European Union countries.
- Citizenship--European Union countries.
- Citizenship.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 270 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- "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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1107063140
- 9781107063143
- OCLC:
- 884631072
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