1st Edition

Migration and Citizenship Attribution Politics and Policies in Western Europe

Edited By Maarten Vink Copyright 2012
168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

How do states in Western Europe deal with the challenges of migration for citizenship? The legal relationship between a person and a state is becoming increasingly blurred in our mobile, transnational world. This volume deals with the membership dimension of citizenship, specifically the formal rules that states use to attribute citizenship. These nationally-specific rules determine how and under... Read more

1. Citizenship Attribution in Western Europe: International Framework and Domestic Trends Maarten P. Vink and Gerard-René de Groot

2. The Impact of the Far Right on Citizenship Policy in Europe: Explaining Continuity and Change Marc Morjé Howard

3. Integration Requirements for Integration's Sake? Identifying, Categorising and Comparing Civic Integration Policies Sara Wallace Goodman

4. Rewarding Integration? Citizenship Regulations and the Socio-Cultural Integration of Immigrants in the Netherlands, France and Germany Evelyn Ersanilli and Ruud Koopmans

5. Switzerland: Contentious Citizenship Attribution in a Federal State Marc Helbling

6. Citizenship Attribution in a New Country of Immigration: Ireland Iseult Honohan

7. Matters of Control: Integration Tests, Naturalisation Reform and Probationary Citizenship in the United Kingdom Dora Kostakopoulou

8. Studying Citizenship Constellations Rainer Bauböck

Biography

Maarten Peter Vink is Associate Professor of Political Science at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. He has published extensively on citizenship and migration and is part of the managing consortium of the EUDO CITIZENSHIP Observatory. He is the author of Limits of European Citizenship (2005) and co-editor of Europeanization: New Research Agendas (2007).