scholarly journals Epilogue: Shaping the Nation through Civic Integration: A Postcolonial Perspective on Paradoxical Policies

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 135-142
Author(s):  
Saskia Bonjour
Keyword(s):  
Civic Integration

Longitudinal Patterns of Religious Perspective and Civic Integration

2004 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Kerestes ◽  
James Youniss ◽  
Edward Metz
Keyword(s):  
Religious Perspective ◽  
Longitudinal Patterns ◽  
Civic Integration

scholarly journals Interactional regimes of sociolinguistic behaviour: An ethnographic exploration of the scales at play across the spaces of an asylum-seeking centre

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Massimiliano Spotti
Keyword(s):  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Present Contribution ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Civic Integration

AbstractDrawing on the notion of sociolinguistic scaling, the present contribution argues for an understanding of an asylum-seeking centre as a unit of inquiry in which sociolinguistic repertoires are played out during intercultural communicative encounters. The contribution shows how the centre’s spaces encapsulate time- and space-bound interactional regimes and language hierarchies. Taken as such, the different rooms that make up the centre, e. g. the office, the activity room and the corridor, all may seem neutral spaces where the daily lives of people unfold. However, each of these spaces invites, allows and dismisses various interactional sociolinguistic regimes that lead to micro-practices of inclusion and exclusion. The article concludes with a consideration on whether the homogeneous category ‘newly arrived migrant in need of civic integration’ authored by many governments across Europe, should not be re-evaluated, in light of the affordances of sociolinguistic scaling and digital literacy potentials that each of these newly arrived individuals have in stock in their repertoires.

scholarly journals Philosophies of integration? Elite views on citizenship policies in Scandinavia

Ethnicities ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 146879682095045
Author(s):  
Grete Brochmann ◽  
Arnfinn H Midtbøen
Keyword(s):  
Immigrant Integration ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Civic Integration ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Benign Neglect ◽  
European Citizenship ◽  
Gradual Introduction ◽  
Control Dimension ◽  
Elite Interviews ◽  
Liberal Approach

Research on the ‘civic turn’ in European citizenship policies suggests that concerns over immigrant integration have fueled the restrictive development of citizenship policies in recent decades. However, few efforts have been made to explore the normative ideas underlying this development. Departing from Favell’s (1998) influential concept of ‘philosophies of integration’, this article draws on elite-interviews with top-level bureaucrats, politicians and citizenship experts in the Scandinavian countries and explores how ideas about nationhood and integration have influenced the divergence in citizenship policies in the region, and what overall purpose the policy-changes reflect. We find that, especially in Denmark, the gradual introduction of ever more demanding civic integration requirements appears to be a part of the broader aim of controlling the inflow of migrants and not to enhance the integration of those already present in the country. Conversely, the Swedish liberal approach to citizenship, which regularly has been analyzed as a steppingstone to societal integration, might in reality have been a reflection of benign neglect. In Norway, immigrant integration has clearly been part of the underlying rationale for changes in naturalization requirements, yet the control dimension have played an increasingly important role. These findings suggests that, although the citizenship institution remains important in nation states’ efforts to solve their ‘ethnic dilemmas’, the underlying rationale behind policy-change is more multifaceted than previously understood.

Retreat from multiculturalism: community cohesion, civic integration and the disciplinary politics of gender

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 411-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siobhán Mullally
Keyword(s):  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Migration Status ◽  
Religious Women ◽  
Civic Integration ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Uk

AbstractThe intersections of gender, religion and migration status have attracted only limited commentary to date. The significance of migration status as a marker of gender inequality, and one that further increases the burden of intersecting axes of discrimination, requires further scrutiny. This article examines the rise of civic integration requirements within the European Union and the significance of this rise for religious freedoms and complex ideals of gender equality. Particular attention is given to recent developments in the UK and France in the context of wider debates on immigration and integration policies. Against the background of diminishing sovereignty and the expansion of rights to non-citizens, states are rethinking the significance of citizenship and migration status and the criteria to be applied in determining membership and access to the nation-state. The adoption in France of the Charte des Droits et des Devoirs du Citoyen Français marks a further step in the expansion of integration conditions imposed by states, and signals a continuing willingness to deploy juridical forms to enforce such conditions. Of particular concern to this Special Issue are the implications of civic integration requirements for migrant religious women and for feminist engagement with migration laws and the discourse of rights.

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