Skip to main content

Citizenship in the Context of Immigration – Comparative Perspectives

  • Living reference work entry
  • First Online:
Encyclopedia of Migration

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Australian Goverment (2011) Citizenship in Australia. Department of Immigration and Citizenship. http://www.immi.gov.au/media/publications/research/_pdf/citizenship-in-australia-2011.pdf

  • Bauböck R (1994) Transnational citizenship. Edward Elgar, Aldershot

    Google Scholar 

  • Bauder H (2014) Re-imagining the nation-lessons from the debates of immigration in a settler society and an ethnic nation. Comp Migr Stud 2(1):9–27. doi:10.5117/CMS2014.1.BAU2

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bleiker R, Campbell D, Hutchison E, Nicholson X (2013) The visual dehumanisation of refugees. Aust J Polit Sci 48(4):398–416. doi:10.1080/10361146.2013.84076

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Blinder S (2012) UK public opinion toward immigration: overall attitudes and level of concern, Migration Observatory Briefing. COMPAS, University of Oxford, Oxford

    Google Scholar 

  • Bloemraad I (2002) The North American naturalization gap: an institutional approach to citizenship acquisition in the United States and Canada. Int Migr Rev 36(1):193–228

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bosniak L (2008) The citizen and the alien. Princeton University Press, Princeton

    Google Scholar 

  • Boucher A, Cerna L (2014) Current policy trends in skilled immigration policy. Int Migr 52(3):21–25

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Brubaker R (1992) Citizenship and nationhood in France and Germany. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

    Google Scholar 

  • Carens J (2013) The ethics of immigration. Oxford University Press, New York

    Google Scholar 

  • Chan J (1991) The right to nationality as a human right: the current trend towards recognition. Hum Rights Law J 12(1,2):1–14

    Google Scholar 

  • Council of Europe (1993) Second protocol amending the Convention on the reduction of cases of multiple nationality and military obligations in cases of multiple nationality. Council of Europe, Strasbourg

    Google Scholar 

  • Crick Commision (2003) The new and the old: the report of the ‘life in the united kingdom’ advisory group. HMSO, London

    Google Scholar 

  • Faist T (2007) The fixed and porous boundaries of dual citizenship. In: Faist T (ed) Dual citizenship in Europe: from nationhood to societal integration. Ashgate, Avebury, pp 147–169

    Google Scholar 

  • Faist T, Dörr S (1997) Institutional Conditions for the Integration of Immigrants in Welfare States: A Comparison of Germany, France, Great Britain, and the Netherlands, European Journal of Political Research 31(1997):401–26

    Google Scholar 

  • Faist T, Gerdes J (2008) Dual citizenship in an age of mobility. In: Bertelsmann Stiftung, Migration Policy Institute and European Policy Centre (ed) Delivering citizenship. The transatlantic council on migration. Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung, Gütersloh, pp 73–98

    Google Scholar 

  • Favell A (2008) Eurostars and Eurocities: free movement and mobility in an integrating Europe. Blackwell, Oxford

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Freeman G (1986) Migration and the political economy of the welfare state. Ann Am Acad Pol Soc Sci 485:51–63

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Giovagnoli M (2014) Overhauling immigration law: a brief history and basic principles of reform. Immigration Policy Center of the American Immigration Council, Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/perspectives/overhauling-immi-gration-law-brief-history-and-basic-principles-reform

  • Górny A, Grzymała-Kazłowska A, Korys P, Weinar A (2007) Selective tolerance? Regulation, practice and discussion regarding dual nationality in Poland. In: Faist T (ed) Dual citizenship in Europe: from nationhood to societal integration. Ashgate, Avebury, pp 147–169

    Google Scholar 

  • Green S (2012) Much ado about not-very-much? Assessing ten years of German citizenship reform. Citizen Stud 16(2):173–188

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • IPC (2014) What’s on the menu? Immigration bills pending in the house of representatives in 2014. Immigration Policy Center of the American Immigration Council, Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/just-facts/what%E2%80%99s-menu-immigration-bills-pending-house-representa-tives-2014

  • Joppke C (2010) Citizenship and immigration. Polity Press, Malden

    Google Scholar 

  • Kivisto P, Faist T (2007) Citizenship: discourse, theory and transnational prospects. Blackwell, Oxford

    Google Scholar 

  • Kymlicka W (1995) Multicultural citizenship. Oxford University Press, New York

    Google Scholar 

  • Lafleur J-M (2013) Transnational politics and the state. The external voting rights of diasporas. Routledge, London

    Google Scholar 

  • Lefebvre EL (2010) Republicanism and universalism: factors of inclusion or exclusion in the french concept of citizenship. Citizen Stud 7(1):15–36

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Levey GB (2014) Liberal nationalism and the Australian citizenship tests. Citizen Stud 18(2):175–189. doi:10.1080/13621025.2014.886394

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Marshall TH (1964 [1950]) Citizenship and social class. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Google Scholar 

  • Meinecke F (1908) Weltbürgertum und Nationalstaat. Studien zur Genesis des deutschen Nationalstaates. Oldenbourg, München

    Google Scholar 

  • Michalowski I (2010) Integration tests in Germany. A communitarian approach? In: Eva E, Dora K, van Oers R (eds) A re-definition of belonging? Language and integration tests in Europe. Brill Publishers, Leiden, pp S. 185–S. 210

    Google Scholar 

  • Mulvey G (2010) When policy creates politics: the problematizing of immigration and the consequences for refugee integration in the UK. J Refug Stud 23(4):437–462. doi:10.1093/jrs/feq045

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Münch R (2012) Inclusion and exclusion in the liberal competition state. Routledge, New York

    Google Scholar 

  • National Household Survey (NHS) (2011) Obtaining Canadian citizenship. http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/as-sa/99-010-x/99-010-x2011003_1-eng.-pdf

  • Nicholls W (2012) Governing immigrants and citizenship regimes: the case of France, 1950s–1990s. Citizen Stud 16(3–4):511–530

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • OECD (2011) Naturalisation: a passport for the better integration of immigrants? OECD, Paris. doi:10.1787/9789264099104-en

    Google Scholar 

  • Reitz J (1998) Warmth of the welcome: the social causes of economic success for immigrants in different nations and cities. Westview Press, Boulder

    Google Scholar 

  • Reitz J (2014) Canada: new initiatives and approaches to immigration and nation-building. In: Hollifield J, Martin P, Orrenius P (eds) Controlling immigration: a global perspective. Stanford University Press, Stanford, pp 88–116

    Google Scholar 

  • Rose N (1996) The death of the social? Re-figuring the territory of government. Econ Soc 25(3):327–356

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rutter J, Latorre M, Sriskandarajah D (2008) Beyond naturalisation: citizenship policy in an age of super mobility. Institute for Public Policy Research, London

    Google Scholar 

  • Schuck PH (2000) Citizens, strangers, and in-betweens. Westview Press, Boulder

    Google Scholar 

  • Somers MR (2008) Genealogies of citizenship. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK

    Google Scholar 

  • Soysal YN (2012) Citizenship, immigration, and the European social project: rights and obligations of individuality. Br J Sociol 63(1):1–21. doi:10.1111/j.1468-4446.2011.01404.x

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Spiro PJ (2007) Dual citizenship. In: Faist T, Kivisto P (eds) Dual citizenship in global perspective- from unitary to multiple citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, Houndsmills, pp 189–202

    Google Scholar 

  • Sumption M, Flamm S (2012) The economic value of citizenship for immigrants in the United States. Migration Policy Institute, Washington, DC

    Google Scholar 

  • Tilly C (1990) Coercion, capital and European States: AD 990–1992. Blackwell, Oxford

    Google Scholar 

  • Triadafilopoulos P (2011) Illiberal means to liberal ends? Understanding recent immigrant integration policies in Europe. J Ethn Migr Stud 37(6):861–880

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • UK Government (2013) Tougher language requirements for becoming a British citizen. Retrieved from https://www.gov.uk/government/news/tougher-language-req-uirements-announced-for-british-citizenship

  • UK Government (2014) Becoming a UK citizen. Retrieved from https://www.gov.uk/becoming-a-british-citizen

  • Vasta Ellie (2006) From ethnic minorities to ethnic majority policy: changing identities and the shift to assimilationism in the Netherlands. Centre on migration, policy and society working paper no. 26, University of Oxford

    Google Scholar 

  • Zolberg A (1987) ‘Wanted but not welcome’: alien labor in western development. In: Alonso W (ed) Population in an interacting World. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, pp 36–73

    Google Scholar 

  • Zolberg AR, Woon LL (1999) Why Islam is like Spanish: cultural incorporation in Europe and the United States. Polit Soc 27(1):5–38

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Thomas Faist .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2015 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht

About this entry

Cite this entry

Faist, T., Schmidt, K., Ulbricht, C. (2015). Citizenship in the Context of Immigration – Comparative Perspectives. In: Bean, F., Brown, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Migration. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6179-7_115-1

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6179-7_115-1

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht

  • Online ISBN: 978-94-007-6179-7

  • eBook Packages: Springer Reference Social SciencesReference Module Humanities and Social SciencesReference Module Business, Economics and Social Sciences

Publish with us

Policies and ethics