Reforming the UK’s Citizenship Test

Building Bridges, Not Barriers

Thom Brooks (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

144 Seiten

2022
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
9781529218527 (ISBN)

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Thom Brooks draws on first-hand experience and interviews with key figures including past Home Secretaries to expose the UK's Citizenship test as ineffective and a barrier to citizenship. This accessible guide offers recommendations for transforming the citizenship test into a 'bridge to citizenship' which fosters greater inclusion and integration.

How many questions could you answer in a pub quiz about British values?

Designed to ensure new migrants have accepted British values and integrated, the UK's citizenship test is often portrayed as a bad pub quiz with answers few citizens know. With the launch of a new post-Brexit immigration system, this is a critical time to change the test.

Thom Brooks draws on first-hand experience of taking the test, and interviews with key figures including past Home Secretaries, to expose the test as ineffective and a barrier to citizenship. This accessible guide offers recommendations for transforming the citizenship test into a ‘bridge to citizenship’ which fosters greater inclusion and integration.

Thom Brooks is the Dean of Durham Law School at Durham University.

1. A Bad Pub Quiz

2. Why Test for Citizenship?

3. A New Beginning

4. Not Learning from Mistakes

5. From Trivia to Trivial

6. Building Bridges and a Better Test

7. Conclusion and Recommendations

Erscheinungsdatum	03.05.2022
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 203 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781529218527 / 9781529218527
Zustand	Neuware