| Immigration and Membership Politics in Western Europe Contributor(s): Goodman, Sara Wallace (Author) |
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ISBN: 1107063140 ISBN-13: 9781107063143 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $134.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | World - European - Political Science | Public Policy - General - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration |
| Dewey: 325.4 |
| LCCN: 2014027831 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.15 lbs) 284 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western Europe - Cultural Region - Central Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Goodman, Sara Wallace: - Sara Wallace Goodman is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. She has previously held a postdoctoral fellowship at Maastricht University, in association with the European Union Observatory on Democracy Citizenship Consortium, based out of the European University Institute. Her work has been published in World Politics, West European Politics, Political Studies, and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and she has received awards from the European Politics and Society Section and the Migration and Citizenship Section of the American Political Science Association as well as from the British Politics Group. |
