Why are traditional nation-states newly defining membership and belonging? In the twenty-
first century, several Western European states have attached obligatory civic integration …

Focussing on access to territory and authorization of presence and residence for third-
country nationals, this book examines the EU law on immigration and asylum, addressing …

The present article offers an account of Swedish integration policies in the post-war period.
The theoretical purpose is to assess Christian Joppke's hypothesis that recent trends of …

Family migration policy, once basing citizens and resident foreigners' possibilities to bring in
foreign family members mainly on the right to family life, is increasingly a tool states use to …

Marriage migration is a controversial and problematic issue in the UK as elsewhere in
Europe. This timely analysis is a comprehensive examination of the regulation of marriage …

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

Are the restrictive reforms of family migration policy recently implemented in France,
Germany and the Netherlands a result of the introduction of the Family Reunification …

Since restrictions on commonwealth labour immigration to Britain in the 1960s, marriage has
been the dominant form of migration between Pakistan and the UK. Most transnational …

There is a major gap in Dutch refugee and immigration control policies between its
ambitions and outcomes. It results in considerable numbers of rejected asylum seekers who …

In this report, we review existing research about family migration and integration. A key topic
here is how immigration regulations affect integration. Marriages between a second …