The labyrinth towards citizenship : contradictions in the framing and categorizing of immigrants in immigration and integration policies
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- Rachel Waerniers and Lesley Hustinx (UGent)
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- Restrictive policies in Europe are accompanied by exclusionary discourses concerning national citizenship of immigrants, depicting them dichotomously as either ‘deserving’ or ‘undeserving’. In our analysis of both immigration and integration policies in Belgium, we focus on how these political discourses interact to differentiate between categories of immigrants who are in/excluded to some degree in a more complex way than the dichotomy suggests. We conduct framing and category analysis of migration and integration policies to reveal a discursive field with four central frames producing seven categorizations of immigrants with different degrees of deservingness. Instead of a linear path, migrants are trapped in a labyrinth towards citizenship. We uncover four main contradictions in the policy discourse, leading to the conclusion that an ever probationary citizenship status is the highest obtainable goal for certain immigrants. Lastly, we discuss the implications of this labyrinth for the socioeconomic position of immigrants.
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- Policy analysis, immigration, integration, citizenship, human rights, categories
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8583477
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- Waerniers, Rachel, and Lesley Hustinx. “The Labyrinth towards Citizenship : Contradictions in the Framing and Categorizing of Immigrants in Immigration and Integration Policies.” IDENTITIES-GLOBAL STUDIES IN CULTURE AND POWER, vol. 26, no. 3, 2019, pp. 270–88, doi:10.1080/1070289X.2019.1590025.
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- Waerniers, R., & Hustinx, L. (2019). The labyrinth towards citizenship : contradictions in the framing and categorizing of immigrants in immigration and integration policies. IDENTITIES-GLOBAL STUDIES IN CULTURE AND POWER, 26(3), 270–288. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2019.1590025
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- Waerniers, Rachel, and Lesley Hustinx. 2019. “The Labyrinth towards Citizenship : Contradictions in the Framing and Categorizing of Immigrants in Immigration and Integration Policies.” IDENTITIES-GLOBAL STUDIES IN CULTURE AND POWER 26 (3): 270–88. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2019.1590025.
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- Waerniers, Rachel, and Lesley Hustinx. 2019. “The Labyrinth towards Citizenship : Contradictions in the Framing and Categorizing of Immigrants in Immigration and Integration Policies.” IDENTITIES-GLOBAL STUDIES IN CULTURE AND POWER 26 (3): 270–288. doi:10.1080/1070289X.2019.1590025.
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- 1.Waerniers R, Hustinx L. The labyrinth towards citizenship : contradictions in the framing and categorizing of immigrants in immigration and integration policies. IDENTITIES-GLOBAL STUDIES IN CULTURE AND POWER. 2019;26(3):270–88.
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- [1]R. Waerniers and L. Hustinx, “The labyrinth towards citizenship : contradictions in the framing and categorizing of immigrants in immigration and integration policies,” IDENTITIES-GLOBAL STUDIES IN CULTURE AND POWER, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 270–288, 2019.
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abstract = {{Restrictive policies in Europe are accompanied by exclusionary discourses concerning national citizenship of immigrants, depicting them dichotomously as either ‘deserving’ or ‘undeserving’. In our analysis of both immigration and integration policies in Belgium, we focus on how these political discourses interact to differentiate between categories of immigrants who are in/excluded to some degree in a more complex way than the dichotomy suggests. We conduct framing and category analysis of migration and integration policies to reveal a discursive field with four central frames producing seven categorizations of immigrants with different degrees of deservingness. Instead of a linear path, migrants are trapped in a labyrinth towards citizenship. We uncover four main contradictions in the policy discourse, leading to the conclusion that an ever probationary citizenship status is the highest obtainable goal for certain immigrants. Lastly, we discuss the implications of this labyrinth for the socioeconomic position of immigrants.}},
author = {{Waerniers, Rachel and Hustinx, Lesley}},
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language = {{eng}},
number = {{3}},
pages = {{270--288}},
title = {{The labyrinth towards citizenship : contradictions in the framing and categorizing of immigrants in immigration and integration policies}},
url = {{http://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2019.1590025}},
volume = {{26}},
year = {{2019}},
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