This open access book critically re-examines the theoretical and empirical interconnections between integration and citizenship, specifically, naturalisation. With new, empirical-grounded analyses of what we term 'citizenship-integration nexus' the central, shared contribution is showcasing how membership is informally achieved through everyday integration usually around, but sometimes in spite of, formal citizenship requirements. By providing evidence of a nexus disjuncture, the book contributes to critical dialogues on immigrant integration and political incorporation, relevant for policymakers, civil society actors, and academics alike.
1. Conceptualising the Citizenship-Integration Nexus (Roxana Barbulescu, Sara Wallace Goodman, and Luicy Pedroza).- Part 1. Integration Through Citizenship.- 2. Ideas of integration in citizenship laws and citizenship acquisition procedures in Belgium and the UK (Djordje Sredanovic).- 3. Becoming Dutch at what cost? Increasing application fees and naturalisation rates of EU immigrants in the Netherlands (Floris Peters, Swantje Falcke and Maarten Vink).- 4. Citizenship and naturalisation for migrants in the UK after Brexit (Marina Fernandez Reino and Madeleine Sumption).- Part 2. Integration from Below.- 5. Immigrant Economic Rights in the European Union (Hannah M. Alarian).- 6. Migrants, New citizens, Co-citizens and citizens by adoption Regionalist parties framing of immigrants in the Basque Country, Corsica, South Tyrol, Scotland and Wales (Verena Wisthaler).- 7. Intercultural Citizenship in the Making: Public Space and Belonging in Discriminatory Environments (Richard Zapata-Barrero and Zenia Hellgren).- 8. In London, I am a European citizen: Brexit, emotions, and the politics of belonging (Nando Sigona and Marie Godin).- Part 3. Integration from Above.- 9. It just feels weird Irish External Voting and the Brexit Irish (Vikki Barry Brown).- 10. Between Integration and lC