ASSIGNMENT:
For example: (Differences in Citizenship Policies of Denmark and Germany)
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The Treaty on the Treaty and carries with it certain rights and freedoms for EU citizens. Yet it is a derivative citizenship status (i.e., only open to and automatically granted to citizens of Member States), which means that the Member States remain the ultimate ‘gatekeepers’ of EU citizenship. Some scholars (such as Howard 2009) see a degree of convergence of citizenship policies among EU states over time, while others (such as Koopmans et al. 2012) dispute this.
In your essay, you should European Union (Maastricht Treaty) encoded the principle of citizenship of the EU, which remains in investigate whether pressures of Europeanisation and/or other factors have led to changes in the national citizenship policies of Member States over time, particularly with regard to the naturalisation of immigrants, and the granting of citizenship by iussolito second-generation citizens born to people of immigrant origin.
Choose two contrasting countries that are member states of the EU – one that has seen a significant liberalisation of citizenship policy over the past 20 years, and another that has seen little change. Using the information at your disposal, research the following factors of their citizenship
• The dominant citizenship formation (use the classification in Bauböck and Vink 2013)
• The amount of immigrant immigration to the state(s) in recent times.
• Policy debates in the state about citizenship over the past 25 years.
• Significant changes, or evidence of resistance to change, in the citizenship regimes in that period.
• The reasons behind this – Europeanisation, domestic or other factors?
You are welcome to use any reputable sources, but as a starting point, the following are suggested:
Course textbook:
• Howard, M.M. (2009), The Politics of Citizenship in Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P.): ‘Citizenship Policy Index’
Other literature:
• Koopmans, R., Michalowski, I. and Waibel, S. (2012) Citizenship rights for immigrants: National political processes and cross-national convergence in Western Europe, 1980–2008. American Journal of Sociology 117(4): 1202–1245.
• Vink, M., and Bauböck, R. (2013), ‘Citizenship configurations: Analysing the multiple purposes of citizenship regimes in Europe’, Comparative European Politics 11: 621-48
Empirical sources:
• Bauböck, R. et al. (2012) – EUDO CITIZENSHIP OBERVATORY (http://www.eudo-citizenship.eu) including:
o CITizenshipLAW index (CITLAW)
o Country reports
o Naturalisation figures
• MIPEX (www.mipex.eu)
