Beyond instrumental citizenship: the Spanish and Italian citizenship regimes in times of crisis

Finotelli, Claudia; Barbera, MaríaCaterina La; Echeverría, Gabriel

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2017.1345838

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“…The familistic welfare model with a low level of social protection and the main responsibility for people's well-being put on families' shoulders can, paradoxically, keep competition over public services and benefits limited since private and social resources are much more crucial than public provisions in determining the quality of life, as shown by Maroukis (2018) and Esteves, Fonseca, and Malheiros (2018). Finally, emigration as an exit strategy against economic downturn, often wished for and sometimes actively supported by national governments, may limit the competition between natives and migrants or at least its perception (Finotelli, La Barbera, Echeverría 2018). This SI's papers suggest that all of these features that characterise Southern European countries contributed to different extents to mitigating the worsening of the legal-political and cultural dimensions during economic decline.…”

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“…Positive trends, this time concerning the legal dimension of integration, have been highlighted in the contribution by Finotelli, La Barbera, and Echeverría (2018) which addresses the nexus between citizenship regimes and naturalisations trends in Italy and Spain, two countries with similar migration history but rather different citizenship regimes. The aim of their article is to analyse to what extent citizenship regimes may offer opportunities for instrumental uses of naturalisation in times of economic crisis.…”

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Integration in times of economic decline. Migrant inclusion in Southern European societies: trends and theoretical implications

Finotelli

Ponzo

2017

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Despite the large amount of literature on migrants' integration, little is known about integration in times of economic decline. The aim of this Special Issue is to contribute to filling this research gap by exploring the nexus between the Great Recession that began in 2008 and integration processes. To this end, we regard Southern European countries as an observatory of crucial relevance because of their harsh experience of the crisis and common social and policy patterns that make their comparative analysis empirically sound and theoretically significant. In order to offer some general views on this Issue's contributions and to highlight some of the explanatory potential of this collective work, we frame the collected articles by referring to different dimensions of integration: (i) residence status and political rights; (ii) socioeconomic conditions; and (iii) perceptions of migrants and the receiving society. Contributions show that in Southern Europe the legal-political and cultural dimensions of integration, i.e. legal status and perceptions towards migrants, have apparently been more resilient to the crisis than the economic dimension, such as the socioeconomic conditions of migrants.

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Integration in times of economic decline. Migrant inclusion in Southern European societies: trends and theoretical implications

Finotelli

Ponzo

2017

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“…La tendencia favorable a obtener la nacionalidad del país de acogida aparece en la Encuesta a Ciudadanos Inmigrantes (Huddleston y Dag Tjaden, 2012: 72), donde se refleja asimismo que la naturalización ayuda a las personas inmigrantes a sentirse más integradas, a conseguir mejores puestos de trabajo, e incluso a mejorar su nivel de estudios y participación. Lógicamente, las naturalizaciones son más frecuentes entre los nacionales de países con una inmigración consolidada y entre los grupos que disfrutan de un marco legal más favorable, como es el caso de los latinoamericanos en España (González y Cortina, 2011;Finotelli y la Barbera, 2013;Pinyol y Sánchez-Montijano, 2014).…”

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“…En cuanto a cómo una persona extranjera adquiere esta nacionalidad en España, la idea clave es que la normativa se inspira en un anclaje en sus raíces coloniales y por ello se favorece a los nacionales provenientes de estos países (González y Cortina. 2011;Martín y Moreno, 2012;Finotelli y la Barbera, 2013;Pinyol y Sánchez-Montijano, 2014;Álvarez, 2014).…”

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“…Cabe recordar que el período general de diez años es uno de los criterios más restrictivos de la Unión Europea, con pocas excepciones, como Austria, Italia y Suiza (Dag Tjaden y Sánchez-Montijano, 2013: 12). Sin embargo, la disparidad entre la clasificación como un régimen restrictivo de ciudadanía y el aumento ostensible de naturalizaciones en España en los últimos años evidencian que las reglas excepcionales a los diez años permiten la vía rápida de naturalización para ciertos nacionales privilegiados, pero también para los hijos nacidos en España de padres no españoles a través de la reducción a un año del requisito de residencia (Finotelli y la Barbera, 2013). Estos matices a la visión restrictiva del sistema se complementan con la posibilidad que tienen las personas iberoamericanas y de Andorra, Filipinas y Guinea Ecuatorial de no renunciar a su nacionalidad.…”

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Naturalizaciones en España: indicador de integración y estrategia frente a la crisis

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2016

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Remain or return home: The migration intentions of first‐generation migrants in Italy

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Paparusso

2018

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Investigating future migration intentions as a proxy of future migration behaviours is useful to capture a more complete understanding of the entire migration process.This also allows a fuller consideration of the policy implications of these intentions for the origin and destination countries. The aim of this paper is to analyse the individual factors associated with the return migration intentions of first-generation migrants living in Italy, a new immigration country, whose migrants' return intentions have been little explored so far. We use data from the survey on the "Social Condition and Integration of Foreign Citizens" carried out by ISTAT in 2011-2012, and we apply a binary logistic regression model. The results show both the complexity and the interconnection of the factors associated with return migration intentions and that migration projects, histories, and goals count more than legal status for return intentions. Moreover, results prove that return migration intentions are influenced by conflicting processes, whose outcomes are not always easy to schematize: integration is a factor that tends to strengthen the ties with the country of residence, whereas transnationalism reinforces those with the country of origin. These factors should be considered by policymakers, especially when immigration assumes a crucial role in the receiving countries' labour market structure and population dynamics, such as in the case of Italy. Different migratory backgrounds, profiles, histories, and projects will require in-depth examination by scientists and policymakers, because the long-term ability and willingness of a host country to attract and retain migrants should be adapted accordingly.

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Beyond instrumental citizenship: the Spanish and Italian citizenship regimes in times of crisis

Cited by 33 publications

References 44 publications

Integration in times of economic decline. Migrant inclusion in Southern European societies: trends and theoretical implications

Integration in times of economic decline. Migrant inclusion in Southern European societies: trends and theoretical implications

Naturalizaciones en España: indicador de integración y estrategia frente a la crisis

Remain or return home: The migration intentions of first‐generation migrants in Italy

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