Implementing Citizenship, Nationality and Integration Policies

The UK and Belgium in Comparative Perspective
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5292-1988-3
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 174 Seiten, Format (B × H): 132 mm x 209 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

In this incisive analysis, Sredanovic compares and contrasts the experiences of citizenship and integration policies in the UK and Belgium.
In-depth interviews with officials illuminate both the everyday application of approaches to citizenship and integration, and their evolution in recent years. By examining the levels of discretion that exist within the two countries’ systems, this book explores the variations within the implementation processes.
The first comparative work of its kind, this book goes beyond the analysis of legislation to explore how citizenship and integration policies are applied on the frontline.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sredanovic, Djordje

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Migrations- & Minderheitenpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht Staatsangehörigkeitsrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction
Citizenship and integration: rights and inequality
Cultural conformity and legal guarantees: citizenship and integration in Europe
Implementation: law in action
Method
Contents of the book
2. Citizenship in the UK
History and policy: discretion and cultural conformity
Nationality Checking Services: citizenship on the territory
Citizenship implementation in the Home Office
Conclusion: cultural conformity, discretion and routinization
3. Nationality in Belgium
History and policy: cultural conformity and the documentary approach
Parquets, registers and the implementation of nationality
Geographic variation
Conclusion: not much discretion, but not much uniformity either
4. Integration in Belgium
History and policy: separate models of integration
CRIs and the implementation of integration in Wallonia
The determination of individual needs
Conclusion: integration, uncertainty and flexibility
5. Comparative Analyses
Migration policies behind the frontline
The spaces of discretion
Factors of variation
Conclusion: how applying the law changes it
6. Conclusions
Political implications
The future of citizenship and integration
Policy recommendations

Über Autor(innen)

Sredanovic, Djordje
Djordje Sredanovic is an FNRS post-doctoral fellow at the Group for Research on Ethnic Relations, Migration and Equality of the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Djordje Sredanovic is an FNRS postdoctoral fellow at the Group for Research on Ethnic Relations, Migration and Equality at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.