Migration and Citizenship: Legal Status, Rights and Political Participation (Amsterdam University Press - IMISCOE Reports)

as Europe Struggles To Integrate Growing Numbers Of Immigrants Into Society, Citizenship Is Frequently Held Out As Both A Goal Of And A Tool For Promoting That Integration. But By Studying The Issue From The Perspective Of Migration, Migration And Citizenship Makes Clear That Citizenship Carries Important Legal And Political Status That Goes Beyond Such Efforts At Social Integration. Highlighting The Ways In Which The Difference In Legal Status That Citizenship Confers Enables Governments To Set Boundaries Between Citizens And Non-citizens In Terms Of Rights And Political Participation, This Volume Summarizes Current Theories And Research. Table of Contents......Page 6 Text Boxes......Page 8 Tables......Page 9 Introduction......Page 10 Introduction......Page 16 Citizenship status......Page 17 Citizenship rights and duties......Page 24 Citizenship virtues and practices......Page 32 The legal status of foreign nationals......Page 34 Citizenship regulations in comparative perspective: Is there convergence......Page 41 Access to, acquisition of and loss of nationality in liberal states – is there convergence or divergence?......Page 45 Explaining citizenship policies in liberal states......Page 52 Dual citizenship......Page 59 Migrant choices, the impact of policies on naturalisation behaviour and the consequences of naturalisation......Page 61 Perspectives for research......Page 66 The roots of Union citizenship......Page 68 Union citizenship or European denizenship?......Page 71 European citizenship and policies vis-à-vis third country nationals......Page 73 European citizenship and antidiscrimination......Page 80 The concept of civic citizenship......Page 81 Introduction......Page 84 Definitions and concepts......Page 85 The thesis of political quiescence of immigrants......Page 86 Explaining the various forms of immigrant political participation......Page 88 A typology of the various forms of immigrant political participation in the country of settlement......Page 91 Transnational political participation......Page 99 Research perspectives......Page 102 How to evaluate political participation of immigrants and their offspring in the country of residence?......Page 103 Annex......Page 107 Notes......Page 114 References......Page 120 Citizenship is frequently invoked both as an instrument and goal of immigrant integration. Yet, in migration contexts, citizenship also marks a distinction between members and outsiders based on their different relations to particular states. A migration perspective highlights the boundaries of citizenship and political control over entry and exit as well as the fact that foreign residents remain in most countries deprived of core rights of political participation. This book summarizes current theories and empirical research on the legal status and political participation of migrants in European democracies. -- Website OAPEN Library Abstract: Citizenship is frequently invoked both as an instrument and goal of immigrant integration. Yet, in migration contexts, citizenship also marks a distinction between members and outsiders based on their different relations to particular states. A migration perspective highlights the boundaries of citizenship and political control over entry and exit as well as the fact that foreign residents remain in most countries deprived of core rights of political participation. This book summarizes current theories and empirical research on the legal status and political participation of migrants in European democracies Overview of current theories and empirical research on citizenship in European contexts of migration