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 …

After decades of scholarly optimism that the immigration reforms that swept across the
Global North in the postwar era had ushered in a new age of non-discriminatory migration …

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 introduction to this special issue traces class at the interface between migration policy
and migrant strategies. Scholarship on the politics of migration and citizenship has thus far …

Marriages that involve the migration of at least one of the spouses challenge two intersecting
facets of the politics of belonging: the making of the 'good and legitimate citizens' and the …

This special issue investigates citizenship and belonging in mixed-status families, ie families
consisting of both citizens and non-citizens. We critique the standard perception of …

Since it establishes differentiated socio-legal eligibility categories among different migrant
groups, family reunification constitutes a prime example of the internal border. In my article, I …

The conventional notion of integration as 'immigrants becoming part of something'has been
widely criticised for its undesirable normative connotations. In response, scholars either …

This article investigates how marriage migration management practices in the United
Kingdom (UK) have entered the realm of security policy by relying on a moral political …

A Critical Cultural Sociological Exploration of Attitudes toward Migration in Czechia: What
Lies Beneath the Fear of the Thirteenth Migrant qualitatively deciphers what lies beneath the …