Migrant integration and the state -- Migration in Italy and Spain and integration outcomes -- Varieties of denizenship: rights regimes and the importance of (not) being an EU citizen -- Interventionist states and the making of integration duties: when, how, and for whom do states pursue integration? -- Conclusion. the freedom to not integrate: multicultural integration amid rising neoassimilation
Summary
"In this rich study, Roxana Barbulescu examines the transformation of state-led immigrant integration in two relatively new immigration countries in Western Europe: Italy and Spain. The book is comparative in approach and seeks to explain states' immigrant integration strategies across national, regional, and city-level decision and policy making. Barbulescu argues that states pursue no one-size-fits-all strategy for the integration of migrants, but rather simultaneously pursue multiple strategies that vary greatly for different groups. Two main integration strategies stand out. The first one targets non-European citizens and is assimilationist in character and based on interventionist principles according to which the government actively pursues the inclusion of migrants. The second strategy targets EU citizens and is a laissez-faire scenario where foreigners enjoy rights and live their entire lives in the host country without the state or the local authorities seeking their integration"-- Provided by publisher
Notes
Significantly Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--European University Institute, 2013, titled The politics of immigrant integration in post-enlargement Europe migrants : co-ethnics and European citizens in Italy and Spain
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
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