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This article focuses on the linkage between institutional & normative dimension. This article focuses on the linkage between institutional & normative dimensions of 'Europeanization' & examines the UK Government White Paper, entitled 'Secure Borders, Safe Haven' (Home Office, 2002). The article reviews the migration policy under the Blair government. It argues that all existing forms of definitions derived from naturalization remain too national-statist orientated & therefore are limited in addressing the new challenges that are needed to transcend the nationality model of citizenship. The author suggests, based on the examination of naturalization laws throughout the EU generally & particularly in GB, an automatic civic registration, conditioned on domicile & the absence of criminal convictions only. The article illustrates how naturalization laws, however evolutionary, place too much emphasis on social cohesion that are equated with belonging & citizenship -- thus overlooking the fact that sense of belonging develops with inclusion in society rather than by declarations or language proficiency tests. Adapted from the source document.

This article investigates what moral principles should inform states' decisions to grant resident migrants the rights of full citizenship. Some work on this question has focused on the beliefs and attitudes it is thought desirable for migrants to have. This article takes a different approach. Beginning from the assumption that a high rate of naturalisation is desirable, the article investigates four arguments in its favour. The contribution argument says that residents merit citizenship by virtue of their productive contribution to their new society. The coercion argument says it is wrong to impose on resident migrants laws they had no say in making. The membership argument says that migrants merit citizenship because they are already members of society. The respect argument says that long-term alienage is a failure of respect. I argue that the respect account escapes the difficulties of the other arguments, and best matches our intuitions about naturalisation. Further, the respect which states and citizens owe migrants, if manifest in the right political climate, is likely to lead to migrants respecting their new society too, and hence having the right kinds of attitude towards it.

Cet article aborde deux dimensions du capitalisme contemporain. Celui-ci se moralise d'une part. Il se verdit d'autre part. Ce sont deux nécessités pour masquer la violence de l'exploitation et la toxicité environnementale de l'économie de marché capitaliste dérégulée. Dès lors que le marché se présente comme un écosystème il se légitime comme naturel suivant un processus de naturalisation qui montre l'émergence d'un sujet du marché simple partie prenante, favorisé par le développement d'une citoyenneté numérique à base d'indignations morales, de violences verbales, de cancel culture.

NATURALIZATION PROCEDURES HAVE BECOME A HOTLY DEBATED POLITICAL ISSUE IN SEVERAL EUROPEAN COUNTRIES. FREQUENTLY NATURALIZATION IS SEEN AS THE MOST IMPORTANT LEGAL INSTRUMENT TO FACILITATE THE INTEGRATION OF RESIDENT IMMIGRANTS AND OF SUBSEQUENT GENERATIONS. THIS ARTICLE PROPOSES THAT RELIABLE AND SOPHISTICATED INDICATORS FOR LEGAL INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION COULD BE DEVELOPED IN FURTHER RESEARCH. THEY ALSO ARGUE THAT DEMOCRATIC INTEGRATION POLICIES SHOULD OPTIMISE INCLUSION RATHER THAN MERELY FOCUS ON NATURALIZATIONS.

Discussions within political theory on naturalisation tend to focus on whether or not it is reasonable and fair to make naturalisation conditional on meeting integration requirements. Those who emphasise the right of long-term immigrants to be included as equal citizens argue that automatic naturalisation is preferable, while those who put emphasis on the state's legitimate interest in promoting the conditions for a reasonably just society tend to argue that conditional naturalisation is normatively preferable. However, most participating in this debate seem to agree that naturalisation rules must balance these different concerns. In this paper, we argue that the conflicting views on each side of the automatic-conditional divide can be reconciled by introducing the model of discounting-conditional naturalisation. We suggest that a practice in which integration requirements are gradually relaxed over time can in fact sufficiently accommodate those normative considerations that are in conflict under the current practices.

Discussions within political theory on naturalisation tend to focus on whether or not it is reasonable and fair to make naturalisation conditional on meeting integration requirements. Those who emphasise the right of long-term immigrants to be included as equal citizens argue that automatic naturalisation is preferable, while those who put emphasis on the state's legitimate interest in promoting the conditions for a reasonably just society tend to argue that conditional naturalisation is normatively preferable. However, most participating in this debate seem to agree that naturalisation rules must balance these different concerns. In this paper, we argue that the conflicting views on each side of the automatic-conditional divide can be reconciled by introducing the model of discounting-conditional naturalisation. We suggest that a practice in which integration requirements are gradually relaxed over time can in fact sufficiently accommodate those normative considerations that are in conflict under the current practices.

Who decides what criteria are used to determine who can become Swiss? Which imaginaries of Swissness are mobilised in the context of naturalisation? Why is Swiss naturalisation policy so restrictive in international comparison? These questions are addressed in the exhibition Naturalisation, developed jointly by the Musée gruérien and the University of Neuchâtel. The exhibition examines the naturalisation procedure in the Gruyère region, and the symbolism associated with it, by combining reconstructions of the procedure with ethnographic and photographic documentation. It allows the public to live the experience of the candidates to naturalisation and to discover the point of view of the decision-makers, while being invited to take a reflective look at the naturalisation system put in place by the authorities. This book is the catalogue of the exhibition. In the first part, it proposes different framings and deepenings through essays by specialists from the social sciences, the museal area and photography. The second part presents the reflections discussed in the exhibition and a documentation of the naturalisation process in the form of images and ethnographic documents. Both documentary and reflective, this publication is a scientific and artistic contribution to the societal debate on naturalisation and the place given to diversity in Switzerland.