Migrants into Members: Social Rights, Civic Requirements, and Citizenship in Western Europe

Baldi, Gregory; Goodman, Sara Wallace

doi:10.1080/01402382.2015.1041237

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“…Policies can also be collected at the subnational level (Kraal & Vertovec, ), including across cantons (Manatschal & Stadelmann‐Steffen, , ), regions (Strazzari, ), and cities (Caponio, ). Further still, applicable rules exist in different policy domains, including establishing legal status (Borevi, Jensen, & Mouritsen, ; Goodman, ), family reunification (Bech, Borevi, & Mouritsen, ; Bonjour, ) but also welfare (Boucher, ), and other social policies (Baldi & Goodman, ). As researchers rely on different sources to assemble integration policy across these many domains, including myriad ministries—from the Home Office to Justice and Welfare—as well as, typically, the use of country experts as coders (e.g., the Immigration Policies in Comparison project, or IMPIC), there is a pressing need to establish external validity of unique measures.…”

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Studying Public Policy through Immigration Policy: Advances in Theory and Measurement

Filindra¹,

Goodman²

2019

Policy Studies Journal

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This essay provides a critical review of the field of immigration policy studies from the perspective of measurement and modeling. It serves to contextualize and broaden the views presented in the special issue. As such, we combine insights from American and comparative politics, pinpoint key limitations and challenges in the field, and identify areas of strength within each subfield which could inform theory and measurement development for the other. Ultimately, the concerns about conceptualization, definition, and measurement that we identify and discuss herein, do not apply only to immigration policy studies but to policy studies writ large.

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Studying Public Policy through Immigration Policy: Advances in Theory and Measurement

Filindra¹,

Goodman²

2019

Policy Studies Journal

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“…The linkage between immigration and intergration could shift the focus of integration policies, from their functioning as a measure to enable integration to their potentially being subordinated to the necessity of migration control (Baldi and Goodman 2015;Joppke 2007).…”

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“…The idea of national models assumes that historical legacies determine integration policies, thereby causing cross-national divergence. Several scholars have debated and challenged this idea with studies showing cross-national trends of both convergence and divergence (Baldi and Goodman 2015;Brochmann et al 2012;Carrera 2006;Goodman 2010;Joppke 2007;. Most studies include historical accounts since the birth of national integration policies in the respective countries; however, this study narrows the scope to a more particular phenomenon: how a crisis affects these policies.…”

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Cross-national convergence in times of crisis? Integration policies before, during and after the refugee crisis

Hernes

2018

West European Politics

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and teaching cover public policy and design, central-local governance, organizational theory and immigrant integration policies. AcknowledgementsThe author wishes to thank the two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. Thanks also for comments on earlier drafts from Grete Brochmann, Jostein Askim and Anton Steen, and from participants in workshops at NOPSA 2017 and the department seminar in September 2017 at the Integration policies before, during and after the refugee crisisThis article analyses if, how and why Scandinavian integration policies converged as a result of the refugee crisis in 2015, studying policies of permanent residence, citizenship, family reunification and access to social benefits. The analysis of policy processes finds that a logic of regulatory competition led to goal convergence, as all three countries explicitly adapted their policies relative to other countries' policies.Nonetheless, when comparing the configuration of policy instruments and their settings, the cross-country gap persists as all three countries took restrictive steps, thus showing traits of path dependency. The conclusion discusses a severe challenge in the current policy convergence debate in the integration literature: how an insufficient level of precision 1) concerning different dimensions of the policies and 2) concerning how to assess convergence could lead to inaccurate and even opposite conclusions when interpreting empirical analyses. Group 2017), as the countries have been classified at opposite ends of the restrictivepermissive spectrum of immigrant integration policies (Goodman 2010; 2012b), providing initial divergence on the dependent variable. Second, countries which are culturally, institutionally and economically close are more likely to adopt converging policies (Knill 2005). The Scandinavian welfare states share strong political, social, cultural and economic similarities, making them a suitable 'most likely case', where cross-country convergence during a crisis would likely emerge (Borevi et al. 2017: 2). More specifically, by studyingScandinavian integration policies right before the outbreak, during and after the refugee crisis, the study asks three questions: 1) Did the Scandinavian countries experience a change in national integration policies? 2) Are converging cross-country traits apparent? and 3) What caused these changes?After decomposing and clarifying how policy convergence will be assessed, I introduce a hypothesis predicting more restrictive and conditional integration policies during the crisis. Then follows a presentation of the case selection and data, before a brief account of the relevant policy processes in each country. The cross-country comparison finds clear traits of goal convergence in the Scandinavian integration policies during the crisis; however, because all three countries move in a more restrictive direction, the initial gap concerning the concrete instruments and settings of these instruments persists. In the conclusion, I discuss a severe challenge in the current...

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“…Bonjour & Kraler 2015, p. 1412). Family reunification policies therefore form part of national ‘membership conditionality structures’ (Baldi & Goodman, 2015), often linked to the further ‘gates’ of permanent residence or citizenship, since the legal status of the resident sponsor required for family entry, such as permanent residence or citizenship, is dependent on meeting requirements conditioning that status. In sum, family reunification policies constitute one important part of the stratification of membership rights by civic integration requirements, and are affected by other policy areas concerning residence status and citizenship.…”

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A ‘civic turn’ in Scandinavian family migration policies? Comparing Denmark, Norway and Sweden

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Borevi

Mouritsen

2017

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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 limit immigration and to push newcomers to integrate into civic and economic life. The family migration policies of Denmark, Norway and Sweden range widely – from more minimal support and age requirements to high expectations of language skills, work records and even income levels. While in Denmark and increasingly in Norway growing sets of requirements have been justified on the need to protect the welfare state and a Nordic liberal way of life, in Sweden more minimal requirements have been introduced in the name of spurring immigrants’ labor market integration even as rights-based reasoning has continued to dominate. In all three countries, new restrictions have been introduced in the wake of the refugee crisis. These cases show how prioritizations of the right to family life vis-à-vis welfare-state sustainability have produced different rules for family entry, and how family migration policies are used to different extents to push civic integration of both new and already settled immigrants.

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Migrants into Members: Social Rights, Civic Requirements, and Citizenship in Western Europe

Cited by 31 publications

References 26 publications

Studying Public Policy through Immigration Policy: Advances in Theory and Measurement

Studying Public Policy through Immigration Policy: Advances in Theory and Measurement

Cross-national convergence in times of crisis? Integration policies before, during and after the refugee crisis

A ‘civic turn’ in Scandinavian family migration policies? Comparing Denmark, Norway and Sweden

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