TY - BOOK ID - 85467905 TI - Immigration and membership politics in Western Europe PY - 2014 SN - 1316082954 1316056953 1316054586 1316075869 1316080595 1107635853 1107477867 1316071138 1316073491 131607823X 1107063140 1322177015 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Immigrants KW - Social integration KW - Citizenship KW - Inclusion, Social KW - Integration, Social KW - Social inclusion KW - Sociology KW - Belonging (Social psychology) KW - Emigrants KW - Foreign-born population KW - Foreign population KW - Foreigners KW - Migrants KW - Persons KW - Aliens KW - Cultural assimilation KW - Government policy KW - European Union countries KW - Emigration and immigration KW - Government policy. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85467905 AB - Why are traditional nation-states newly defining membership and belonging? In the twenty-first century, several Western European states have attached obligatory civic integration requirements as conditions for citizenship and residence, which include language proficiency, country knowledge and value commitments for immigrants. This book examines this membership policy adoption and adaptation through both medium-N analysis and three paired comparisons to argue that while there is convergence in instruments, there is also significant divergence in policy purpose, design and outcomes. To explain this variation, this book focuses on the continuing, dynamic interaction of institutional path dependency and party politics. Through paired comparisons of Austria and Denmark, Germany and the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands and France, this book illustrates how variations in these factors - as well as a variety of causal processes - produce divergent civic integration policy strategies that, ultimately, preserve and anchor national understandings of membership. ER -