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To explore the scope and limitations of integration policies being implemented in Europe involves questioning the political structure of the Nation-state and the concept of citizenship as its appropriate framework, in light of the challenges posed by today’s urban multiculturalism, globalization and transnationalism. Accordingly, the present chapter offers a critical evaluation of the tendencies of integration policies in the last decades, assembled through the political rhetoric around the failures of multiculturalism, the return to the values and principles of the Nation-state and the concepts of citizenship and social cohesion. Since the 1990s, several European states have reformed their laws on citizenship to give access to long established immigrants and their children. Also, additional restrictive conditions and requirements for new immigrants have been introduced, positioning the concept of citizenship in the political field of integration. As a result, integration becomes one of the factors that determine whether migrants belong to the Nation-state and become subject to rights and obligations. Likewise, this approach serves as a mechanism to exclude certain people from the enjoyment of certain rights, which has led to forms of restricted or partial citizenship.
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Pardo, F. (2018). The Limits of Citizenship as a Strategy for Integration. In: Challenging the Paradoxes of Integration Policies. Migration, Minorities and Modernity, vol 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64082-2_8
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