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dc.contributor.authorSCHMID, Samuel D.
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-13T13:33:29Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.citationFlorence : European University Institute, 2021en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/73347
dc.descriptionDefence date: 8 December 2021; Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Rainer Bauböck (European University Institute); Prof. Dr. Maarten Vink (European University Institute); Prof. Dr. Sara Wallace Goodman (UC Irvine); Prof. Dr. Sergi Pardos-Prado (University of Glasgow)en
dc.descriptionIn the related video (youtube external link) the author introduces the theme of the dissertation, and won the 'Three Minute PhD Competition' at the EUI in 2019.
dc.description.abstractMany political theorists assume that the openness of immigration and the inclusiveness of citizenship trade off. Yet, there is no consistent empirical evidence for this negative relationship. This dissertation advances three papers to investigate the association between immigration regimes and citizenship regimes. The first paper introduces a new citizenship policy dataset and charts policy trends. I find a liberalizing trajectory that has stagnated, as well as long-term convergence in citizenship regimes across 23 democracies 1980-2019. In addition, I advance index methodology by introducing the idea of confirmatory dimensionality testing within a three-level approach to concept formation. The second paper maps immigration and citizenship regimes in a novel and empirically validated two-dimensional typological space across those cases until 2010. Overall, boundary regimes have become more open-inclusive and less closed-exclusive over time. The liberalizing and converging tendencies are especially pronounced in immigration regimes due to liberal constraints. Based on these descriptive analyses, the third paper develops and tests the boundary politics framework across 23 democracies 1980-2010. It shows that, as theorized, in cases in which immigration-related issues are not politicized, immigration and citizenship regimes do not correlate. When immigration is politicized, immigration regime openness and citizenship regime inclusiveness correlate positively as they become part of the same cultural dimension of party politics, yet they only do so after the Cold War. The evidence shows further that the strong liberal constraints that immigration regimes are exposed to cannot be fully suppressed even when nativists are strong, while citizenship regimes respond to nativist party power and become more exclusive even when immigration is not politicized. These empirical findings corroborate but also qualify the boundary politics framework. They also provoke some surprising implications for various ideal typical positions in normative theory. The allegedly unrealistic liberal-cosmopolitan vision of open inclusive boundary regimes emerges as the least troubled stance.en
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dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherEuropean University Instituteen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEUIen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSPSen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPhD Thesisen
dc.relation.hasversionhttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/73348
dc.relation.hasversionhttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/69802
dc.relation.urihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rsJSi5OoMg
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.subject.lcshCitizenship
dc.subject.lcshDemocracy
dc.subject.lcshEmigration and immigration -- Political aspects
dc.titleDo inclusive societies need closed borders? : the association between immigration and citizenship regimesen
dc.typeThesisen
dc.identifier.doi10.2870/086528
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dc.embargo.terms2025-01-08
dc.date.embargo2025-01-08
dc.description.versionChapter 3 ‘Stagnated liberalization, long-term convergence, and index methodology: three lessons from the CITRIX citizenship policy dataset' of the PhD thesis draws upon an earlier version published as an article 'Stagnated liberalization, long-term convergence, and index methodology: three lessons from the CITRIX citizenship policy dataset' (2021) in the journal ‘Global Policy’
dc.description.versionChapter 4 ‘The architecture of national boundary regimes: mapping immigration and citizenship policies in 23 democracies 1980–2010' of the PhD thesis draws upon an earlier version published as an article 'The architecture of national boundary regimes: mapping immigration and citizenship policies in 23 democracies 1980–2010' (2020) in the journal ‘Comparative migration studies’
dc.relation.isbasisforhttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/76717en


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