The principles of the modern foundational economy and its role in renewing citizenship and informing public policy are explored for the first time in this instructive collection.
Challenging mainstream social and economic thinking, it shows how foundational economy experiments at different scales can foster radical social innovation through collective, rather than private, consumption.
An interdisciplinary group of respected European academics provide case studies of initiatives and interventions around policy cornerstones including housing, food supply and water and waste management. They build a judicious evidence base of the growing relevance of foundational economic thinking and its potential to provide a new political and social outlook on civil society and social justice.
How many questions could you answer in a pub quiz about British values?
Designed to ensure new migrants have accepted British values and integrated, the UK’s citizenship test is often portrayed as a bad pub quiz with answers few citizens know. With the launch of a new post-Brexit immigration system, this is a critical time to change the test.
Thom Brooks draws on first-hand experience of taking the test, and interviews with key figures including past Home Secretaries, to expose the test as ineffective and a barrier to citizenship. This accessible guide offers recommendations for transforming the citizenship test into a ‘bridge to citizenship’ which fosters greater inclusion and integration.
In this incisive analysis, Sredanovic compares and contrasts the experiences of citizenship and integration policies in the UK and Belgium.
In-depth interviews with officials illuminate both the everyday application of approaches to citizenship and integration, and their evolution in recent years. By examining the levels of discretion that exist within the two countries’ systems, this book explores the variations within the implementation processes.
The first comparative work of its kind, this book goes beyond the analysis of legislation to explore how citizenship and integration policies are applied on the frontline.
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Long term resident migrants to the UK, who often possess valuable skills for the economy, still face significant barriers to citizenship. In this important book, Dr Prabhat captures the experiences of those who successfully become British citizens through stories of belonging, citizenship and the law; beautifully illustrated by artist Sam Church. Speaking to contemporary times of Brexit, the book exposes the challenges which become insurmountable for many migrants, and illuminates the gap between policy and practice in gaining British citizenship.
History and policy: discretion and cultural conformity The recent history of citizenship policy in the UK includes two main periods of legislative activity. Relations with British colonies and former colonies and migration from the colonies themselves drove the first period between 1948 and the 1980s. The second, which began in 2002, has been driven by variations in the concept of integration. After a long period of incompletely defined UK subjecthood ( Dummett and Nicol, 1990 ; Dummett, 2006 ; Prabhat, 2018 ), the British Nationality Act 1948
FOUR Citizenship I’m not lost for I know where I am. But, however, where I am may be lost. (A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh, 1926) Introduction For some people, citizenship is little more than a logo on the front of a passport or a dropdown box on a form. It is possible to go through the whole of life without really thinking about what it means to be ‘British’ or ‘Irish’, let alone what it is to be a European Union (EU) citizen. Indeed, about 19% of Northern Ireland’s population have no passport (The Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, 2012, p 16
9 Citizenship TWO Citizenship This study is based on the premise that information is necessary to exercise the social rights of citizenship. A lack of information, or ‘information poverty’, can result in a lack of access to (and denial of) those rights. This chapter provides the theoretical framework of this book. It argues that citizenship provides a valuable underlying concept for exploring the questions addressed here. It questions the nature of citizenship, the rights and responsibilities of both the state and its citizens, and explores the implications
Becoming a citizen does not have its traditional origins in passing any formal test. 1 This naturally raises the question: so why create and require a citizenship test today? The UK’s common law has always allowed the naturalization of foreign nationals, subject to various conditions. One of these is an oath of allegiance to the Crown and a second is possessing a satisfactory knowledge of English, among others. 2 These common law requirements were first put into statute through the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act 1914. While the oath must be
213 TEN Citizenship Hartley Dean Introduction Central to any discussion of the changing role of the State in relation to welfare provision is the concept of citizenship, both as a status attributed to individual members of society and as a social practice involving participation and governance. Citizenship is a fundamentally contested concept that has lately re-emerged as a subject of political discourse and academic inquiry. Prior to the 1992 General Election, Britain’s main political parties vied with each other to establish different visions of a ‘citizen
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Citizenship is always in dispute – in practice as well as in theory – but conventional perspectives do not address why the concept of citizenship is so contentious. This unique book presents a new perspective on citizenship by treating it as a continuing focus of dispute.The authors dispute the way citizenship is normally conceived and analysed within the social sciences, developing a view of citizenship as always emerging from struggle. This view is advanced through an exploration of the entanglements of politics, culture and power that are both embodied and contested in forms and practices of citizenship.
This compelling view of citizenship emerges from the international and interdisciplinary collaboration of the four authors, drawing on the diverse disputes over citizenship in their countries of origin (Brazil, France, the UK and the US). The book is essential reading for anyone interested in the field of citizenship, no matter what their geographical, political or academic location.
