Implementing Citizenship, Nationality and Integration Policies

The UK and Belgium in Comparative Perspective

Djordje Sredanovic (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

174 Seiten

2022
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
9781529219883 (ISBN)

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Djordje Sredanovic goes beyond the theory of citizenship and nationality policy to explore how it is carried out in practice. The book draws on interviews with frontline officers for a comparative analysis of experiences in the UK and Belgium, revealing the level of autonomy of those on the frontline of integration in each country.

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.

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

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

Erscheinungsdatum	01.02.2022
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 203 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781529219883 / 9781529219883
Zustand	Neuware