Since the late 1990s, civic integration has become the dominant immigrant integration policy
in Western Europe. This article reviews three debates surrounding the new policy: first …

The Brexit and Trump shocks of 2016 mark a deep caesura in the history of liberal societies.
It is no longer sufficient, if it ever was, to look at Western states' immigration and citizenship …

The recent trend towards selective immigration policies is based on the racialization of
certain categories of migrants into irretrievably unassimilable Others. In Europe, this trend …

Multiculturalism is controversial in the liberal state and has frequently been declared dead,
even in countries that have never had a policy under that name. This authoritative book …

This paper argues that conceptualizing Western state citizenship from the vantage point of
advancing liberalism is insufficient. Instead, recently restrictive trends may be summarized …

This chapter reviews civic integration policies for immigrants in Western Europe. The novelty
of the policy seems to be at least twofold. First, integration is no longer left to the free play of …

This article focuses on how often and in what ways 'minority representatives' address
cultural and/or religious rights and freedoms by analysing parliamentary questions between …

This article contributes to the literature on the sub-state nationalist and regionalist parties
(SNRPs) by investigating the policy positions in the immigration ambit taken by the Flemish …

This chapter examines the adoption and ubiquity of civic integration policies and mandatory
cultural requirements–including language proficiency, country knowledge and a …

The Mediterranean region has always been marked by intense migration flows. Over the last
few years, political instability in Middle East and North African countries, coupled with …