Calling for the super citizen : naturalisation procedures in the United Kingdom and Germany /: naturalisation procedures in the United Kingdom and Germany. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Elisabeth Badenhoop.
• Authors: Badenhoop, Elisabeth
• Contents: CONTENTS 1. Chapter 1 Naturalisation as subject-formation and the call for the Super Citizen 1.1 Synopsis of the book 1.2 The call for the Super Citizen: naturalisation as subject-formation 1.3 The historical emergence of naturalisation in the UK and Germany 1.4 A multi-sited state ethnography of naturalisation in the UK and Germany 1.5 Outline of the book 2. Chapter 2 Problematisations in naturalisation processes: Super Citizen or 'scrounger' 2.1 The dependent citizenship applicant: supposed lack of economic integration 2.2 The insincere citizenship applicant: doubts about cultural-linguistic integration efforts 2.3 The indifferent citizenship applicant: suspicious political loyalties 2.4 Engrained institutional mistrust 3. Chapter 3 Rationalities of naturalisation: citizenship as award or entitlement 3.1 Naturalisation as a discretionary award 3.2 Naturalisation as a legal entitlement 3.3 Naturalisation as creating an emotional attachment 3.4 Naturalisation as a commercial commodity 3.5 Comparison and conclusion 4. Chapter 4 Authorities in naturalisation procedures: structurally prescribed and self-perceived roles of state actors 4.1 Accessing information and forms: the role of legal advisers 4.2 Educating 'good' citizens: the role of citizenship course teachers 4.3 Presenting the certificate: the role of registrars and caseworkers 4.4 Addressing the 'new' citizens: the role of honorary ceremony speakers 4.5 Discrepancies between structurally prescribed and self-perceived roles 5. Chapter 5 Techniques of subject-formation: citizenship courses, tests, and ceremonies 5.1 Citizenship courses and tests 5.2 Citizenship ceremonies 5.3 The dialectics of citizenship courses, tests and ceremonies: between national nostalgia and democratic modernity 6. Chapter 6 Responses to the Super Citizen: migrants' lived experiences of naturalisation 6.1 Embrace 6.2 Contestation 6.3 Disaffection 6.4 Migrants' competition for state recognition and new hierarchies of worthiness 6.5 The ambivalent effects of the Super Citizen 7. Chapter 7 The Super Citizen and the future of naturalisation 7.1 Current policy developments in the UK and Germany 7.2 Recommendations for future policy-making.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (239 pages)
• Subjects: 323.6230941; Naturalization -- Great Britain; Naturalization -- Germany
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783031342608
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