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dc.contributor.authorWinter, Elkede
dc.contributor.editorBurzan, Nicolede
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-04T13:16:36Z
dc.date.available2025-04-04T13:16:36Z
dc.date.issued2019de
dc.identifier.issn2367-4504de
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/101325
dc.description.abstractIncreasingly, immigrants, especially those from non-Western countries, are suspected of being unwilling to "integrate", i.e. learn the national language, take up work, and adopt "Western" values. They are also said to naturalize "for the wrong reasons", reaching from the abuse of social welfare systems to the use of Western passports for terrorism-related travel. As a consequence, almost all Western countries have recently implemented restrictive changes to their naturalization requirements. In the literature, this development is debated controversially as either re-nationalization or liberalization. Goodman (2014) classifies recent policy changes as an iteration of nation-building, which supplements national identity's emphasis on (ethnic) sameness by means of a state identity's accentuation of (civic) togetherness. This paper examines the naturalization process - and the nation(-state) project at its core - from the viewpoint of those who are usually ignored: immigrants and new citizens. Specifically, it asks the following questions: As how welcoming or repelling do newly minted citizens in Canada perceive the naturalization process? How do they relate to the factual and symbolic boundaries at stake in naturalization? Deriving almost two thirds of its population growth through immigrants and refugees, the Canadian state has - or should have - a very strong interest not only in transforming foreigners into citizens, but also in assuring that this legally important ritual enables and encourages full citizenship: i.e. combining legal status with specific forms of participation and identification. While naturalization is not a single moment in time and not merely an administrative procedure, in this paper, emphasis is placed on the part of the naturalization trajectory that involves dealing with administrative requirements. The paper draws on semi-directed interviews with new citizens residing in the Ottawa-Gatineau region. Participants were recruited through calls for participation. Inductive interview analysis generated key themes related to various dimensions of the naturalization process (e.g. application, study guide, test, ceremony) by means of vertical and horizontal analyses. Results show that new Canadians are acutely aware of being part of a multi-ethnic middle class nation-state project. Those who can, rely upon their skills and qualifications to downplay what they identify as cultural, linguistic and religious biases inherent to the Canadian naturalization process. Boundaries nevertheless remain bright for the less educated, as well as for those offended or intimidated by these biases.de
dc.languagedede
dc.subject.ddcSozialwissenschaften, Soziologiede
dc.subject.ddcSocial sciences, sociology, anthropologyen
dc.subject.otherGrenzziehungen; boundariesde
dc.titleCreating Togetherness? Immigrants' Perspectives on Canada's Naturalization Processde
dc.description.reviewbegutachtetde
dc.description.reviewrevieweden
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publikationen.soziologie.de/index.php/kongressband_2018/article/view/1085/1387de
dc.source.collectionKomplexe Dynamiken globaler und lokaler Entwicklungen: Verhandlungen des 39. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Göttingen 2018de
dc.publisher.countryDEUde
dc.subject.classozMigrationde
dc.subject.classozMigration, Sociology of Migrationen
dc.subject.thesozKanadade
dc.subject.thesozCanadaen
dc.subject.thesozEinbürgerungde
dc.subject.thesoznaturalizationen
dc.subject.thesozMigrantde
dc.subject.thesozmigranten
dc.subject.thesozIntegrationspolitikde
dc.subject.thesozintegration policyen
dc.rights.licenceCreative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht-kommerz. 4.0de
dc.rights.licenceCreative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0en
internal.statusformal und inhaltlich fertig erschlossende
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dc.type.documentKonferenzbeitragde
dc.type.documentconference paperen
dc.type.documentSammelwerksbeitragde
dc.type.documentcollection articleen
internal.identifier.classoz10304
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internal.identifier.document25
dc.contributor.corporateeditorDeutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS)
dc.source.conferenceKongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie "Komplexe Dynamiken globaler und lokaler Entwicklungen"de
dc.event.cityGöttingende
internal.identifier.corporateeditor71
internal.identifier.ddc300
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.21241/ssoar.101325
dc.date.conference2018de
dc.source.conferencenumber39de
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dc.description.pubstatusPublished Versionen
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internal.dda.referencehttps://publikationen.soziologie.de/index.php/kongressband_2018/oai@@oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/1085
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