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Adopting a comparative approach, the book examines the evolution of nationality law across the European Union since WWI. It explores the hypothesis that two factors, the experience of large-scale non-European immigration and the need to integrate a large and growing third country national population, have forced a convergence in European nationality law. The book accords attention to the role of gender and decolonisation in reforms to nationality law.
List of contents
List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Citizenship, Immigration and Nationality: Towards a Convergence in Europe? R.Hansen & P.Weil Citizenship Policy in Germany: The Case of Ethnicity over Residence?; S.Green The History of French Nationality: A Lesson for Europe; P.Weil From Subjects to Citizens: Immigration and Nationality in the United Kingdom; R.Hansen Nationality Law and International Migration: The Italian Case; F.Pastore Migration and Spanish Nationality Law; F.Fuentes Immigration, Immigrants and Nationality Law in the Netherlands 1945-1998; K.Groenendijk & E.Heijs Nationality Law in Greece; C.L.Rozakis Nationality Law in Belgium; M.Liénard-Ligny Migratory Movements and the Law of Nationality in Portugal During the Last Half-Century; R.Ramos Nationality Law in Scandinavia, Denmark, Finland and Sweden; E.Ersboll Nationality Law and Naturalisation in Austria; R.Bauböck & D.Cinar Irish Nationality Law; C.Symmons Index
About the author
RANDALL HANSEN is a Lecturer in Politics at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. His research focuses on Commonwealth and colonial immigration, the politics of nationality and asylum policy. He is author of Citizenship and Immigration in Postwar Britain.
PATRICK WEIL is Director of Research at CNRS, La Sorbonne, Paris.
Summary
Adopting a comparative approach, the book examines the evolution of nationality law across the European Union since WWI. It explores the hypothesis that two factors, the experience of large-scale non-European immigration and the need to integrate a large and growing third country national population, have forced a convergence in European nationality law. The book accords attention to the role of gender and decolonisation in reforms to nationality law.
