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Kostakopoulou, Theodora (2010) The anatomy of civic integration. Modern Law Review, Vol.73 (No.6). pp. 933-958. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2230.2010.00825.x ISSN 0026-7961.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2230.2010.00825.x
Abstract
Recent legislation on migration and citizenship in Europe and the EU framework on integration require migrants to meet integration requirements in order to enter, reside, reunite with their families and naturalise in the host country. Mandatory language course attendance and examination tests are viewed as means of enhancing integration, which is now framed as a ‘two way’ process or a contractual agreement between migrants and the host society. Despite the deployment of the notion of a contract, integration is, in reality, a one way process aimed at procuring conformity, discipline and migration control. Civic integration rests on an artificial homogenisation and displays the same elements of paternalism and ethnocentricity that characterised past initiatives. The civic integration paradigm is a crucial feature of a renewed, albeit old-fashioned, nationpolitics used by political elites to provide answers to a wide range of issues and to elicit support for a controlling state in the first decade of the 21st century.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Modern Law Review | ||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||
ISSN: | 0026-7961 | ||||
Official Date: | 2010 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.73 | ||||
Number: | No.6 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 933-958 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1468-2230.2010.00825.x | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
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