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The end of national models? Integration courses and citizenship trajectories in Europe
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Abstract
Several European countries have recently introduced, or are planning to introduce, citizenship trajectories (voluntary or obligatory inclusion programmes for recent immigrants) or citizen integration tests (tests one should pass to be able to acquire permanent residence or state citizenship). Author... view more
Several European countries have recently introduced, or are planning to introduce, citizenship trajectories (voluntary or obligatory inclusion programmes for recent immigrants) or citizen integration tests (tests one should pass to be able to acquire permanent residence or state citizenship). Authors such as Joppke claim that this is an articulation of a more general shift towards the logic of assimilation (and away from a multicultural agenda) in integration policy paradigms of European states. Integration policies would even be converging in such a fashion that it would no longer make sense to think in terms of national models for immigrant integration. The empirical fact of diffusion of civic integration policies throughout Europe cannot be denied. This paper claims that there is, however, still sufficient distinctiveness between immigrant integration policies in order to continue and use an analytical framework that distinguishes national models.... view less
Keywords
multicultural society; naturalization; Europe; nation state; migration policy; citizenship; immigration law; migration; integration policy; immigration
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Method
descriptive study
Free Keywords
integration policy
Document language
English
Publication Year
2007
Page/Pages
p. 264-283
Journal
International Journal on Multicultural Societies (IJMS), 9 (2007) 2
Status
Published Version; reviewed