Calling for the Super Citizen
Calling for the Super Citizen

Author: Elisabeth Badenhoop

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-07-31

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 3031342607

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This book offers the first empirical and holistic analysis of the design, implementation and effects of the new naturalisation regimes in the United Kingdom and Germany introduced in the 2000s. Based on a multi-sited state ethnography, it uniquely compares the law on the books, the local administration, and the lived experiences of citizenship tests, courses, and ceremonies from an interdisciplinary social science perspective. The book argues that naturalisation procedures in both countries suggest to migrants to constantly optimise themselves in the state’s interests toward the subjectivity of the “Super Citizen” – a political, economic, and cultural asset to the liberal-democratic, capitalist nation-state. The concept of the Super Citizen enables us to highlight and criticise the overburdening expectations toward citizens by application as opposed to citizens by birth. The analysis reveals that the self-presentation of Britain and Germany as liberal and meritocratic polities is in stark contrast to migrants’ lived experiences of the naturalisation process. By shedding light on naturalisation policies’ efficacy, this book is aimed at students and scholars in sociology, politics, law, anthropology, and education, as well as policy-makers in the areas of citizenship and migration.

Becoming a Citizen
Becoming a Citizen

Author: Kamran Khan

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-01-24

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 135003813X

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This book explores the process of acquiring UK citizenship and investigates how the naturalisation process is experienced, with an explicit focus on language practices. This ethnographically-informed study focuses on W, a Yemeni immigrant in the UK, during the final phase of the citizenship process. In this time, he encounters linguistic trials and tests involving the Life in the UK citizenship test, community life, ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages), adult education and the citizenship ceremony. The richness of linguistic data featured in this book allows for a nuanced portrayal of the complexities of becoming a citizen. This is especially so in the context of the UK's assimilationist form of citizenship which is reflected in the introduction of a citizenship test within a broader socio-political climate. Becoming a Citizen offers a detailed analysis of the linguistic process of naturalisation in the the UK and is relevant to scholars working in sociolinguistics, language policy, migration studies and ethnographic research.

Implementing Citizenship, Nationality and Integration Policies
Implementing Citizenship, Nationality and Integration Policies

Author: Sredanovic, Djordje

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2022-01-31

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1529219906

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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.

Daisy: Not Your Average Super-sleuth! Book 6, Call of Duty: The Wiltingham Enigma
Daisy: Not Your Average Super-sleuth! Book 6, Call of Duty: The Wiltingham Enigma

Author: R T Green

Publisher: Wise Owl

Published: 2023-05-25

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13:

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Come and meet our feisty R.E.D. heroine, and find out why she’s such a hit with readers! “One of the best cozy mystery series I’ve ever read!” This book - No, the Wiltingham Enigma isn’t Daisy... although she could easily qualify! It’s one of the village’s oldest residents, Walter Riddell. A cheery, friendly man, he’s ninety-two years old, and has a unique ability to transport himself in his mind back to what he sees as his glory days, when as a young man he worked as an Air Raid Warden in World War Two Norwich. A few days ago, Walter’s present day world has fallen apart. Terrorised by a neighbouring family, who think he’s just a senile old codger who’s lost his mind, one of the family is found dead in his garden. All the evidence points to Walter being the culprit, and even Sarah and the police can’t see any other alternative. But Daisy isn’t convinced, and sets out to prove otherwise. Then things get even more complicated... This time for Daisy, it’s a village-based murder mystery. Together with Celia, she sets out to prove Sarah and the police wrong... by putting herself in the firing line! Read all about the hit Daisy series, and everything else we create, on the r t green website. Enjoy!

A Call for Citizen Action
A Call for Citizen Action

Author: United States. National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals. Task Force on Community Crime Prevention

Publisher:

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13:

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Hobbes, Sovereignty, and Early American Literature
Hobbes, Sovereignty, and Early American Literature

Author: Paul Downes

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-07-28

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1316352293

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Hobbes, Sovereignty, and Early American Literature pursues the question of democratic sovereignty as it was anticipated, theorized and resisted in the American colonies and in the early United States. It proposes that orthodox American liberal accounts of political community need to be supplemented and challenged by the deeply controversial theory of sovereignty that was articulated in Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan (1651). This book offers a radical re-evaluation of Hobbes's political theory and demonstrates how a renewed attention to key Hobbesian ideas might inform inventive re-readings of major American literary, religious and political texts. Ranging from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Puritan attempts to theorize God's sovereignty to revolutionary and founding-era debates over popular sovereignty, this book argues that democratic aspiration still has much to learn from Hobbes's Leviathan and from the powerful liberal resistance it has repeatedly provoked.