Research and Markets: Civic Integration and Modern Citizenship - A Detailed and Systematic Explanation of The Netherlands' Experience With Civic Integration Policies

DUBLIN--(Business Wire)--
Research and Markets
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/5765b0/civic_integration) has
announced the addition of the "Civic Integration and Modern Citizenship" report
to their offering.

This study provides a detailed and systematic explanation of the Netherlands'
experience with civic integration policies. Today, the Netherlands has one of
the most encompassing and coercive civic integration policies, characterised by
overseas civic integration testing, a general obligation to pass a civic
integration exam for all foreign nationals and the existence of an elaborate
sanctioning regime. Our main purpose is to understand the legitimacy of civic
integration in this country, particularly through analysing its main
implications and effects from a broader perspective.

This perspective consists of an historical context, a framework of modern
citizenship rights, and a cross border comparison of different national
integration concepts. The principal issues to be addressed are the political and
social arguments which lay behind the introduction of civic integration
policies, and the extent to which these policies fit within academic notions of
modern citizenship. In addition, the Dutch model of civic integration will be
set against alternative national integration strategies prevailing in some other
immigrant receiving countries, particularly Belgium, Canada and the United
States.

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http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/5765b0/civic_integration

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