Immigration and Membership Politics in Western Europe Paperback / softback
by Sara Wallace (University of California, Irvine) Goodman
Paperback / softback
Description
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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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:284 pages, 23 Tables, unspecified; 14 Line drawings, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:02/02/2017
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- ISBN:9781107635852
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:284 pages, 23 Tables, unspecified; 14 Line drawings, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:02/02/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9781107635852
