This book analyses and compares responses by European countries to international
migration in its various forms and examines collective responses at European Union (EU) …

Migration policy is a product and producer of identities and values. This article argues that
discourses and policies on family reunification participate in the politics of belonging, and …

For more than 15 years, there has been a lively debate among migration scholars in Europe
and North America about how to explain “why liberal states accept unwanted migration.” …

“Family migration” and “integration” are intimately related concepts in policy discourses in
Europe today. Assumptions about the relation between “family migration” and “integration” …

Citizenship does not equal belonging. In this paper, we investigate how the disjunction
between the 'imagined community'and the formal citizenry impacts on citizens' rights. In …

Mixed marriages have always had an ambiguous and often problematic relationship with the
law. On one hand, mixed marriages have been seen as a key indicator of sociocultural …

How can we explain the demise of the new postwar moral framework of anti-racism and
equality and the subsequent rise of integration pessimism in Western Europe in the 1980s, a …

Around 2000 the Netherlands seemed to have been hit by a seismic shock that changed it
almost overnight from an apparent leader in tolerance and multiculturalism into an anti …

This article investigates the impact of European cooperation on the dynamics of domestic
policymaking in the field of migration policy. While European migration policy has gradually …

Abstract Both the Netherlands and France have recently introduced civic integration abroad
policies, which stipulate that family migrants are to learn about the language and customs of …