This open access book critically re-examines the theoretical and empirical interconnections between integration and citizenship, specifically, naturalisation. With new, empirical-grounded analyses of what we term 'citizenship-integration nexus' the central, shared contribution is showcasing how membership is informally achieved through everyday integration —usually around, but sometimes in spite of, formal citizenship requirements. By providing evidence of a nexus disjuncture, the book contributes to critical dialogues on immigrant integration and political incorporation, relevant for policymakers, civil society actors, and academics alike.

This open access book critically re-examines the theoretical and empirical interconnections between integration and citizenship, specifically, naturalisation. With new, empirical-grounded analyses of what we term 'citizenship-integration nexus' the central, shared contribution is showcasing how membership is informally achieved through everyday integration —usually around, but sometimes in spite of, formal citizenship requirements. By providing evidence of a nexus disjuncture, the book contributes to critical dialogues on immigrant integration and political incorporation, relevant for policymakers, civil society actors, and academics alike.

Erweiterungen des Stimmrechts betreffen auch die Frage, wer an der Selbstbestimmung der Gemeinschaft teilnehmen darf. Durch einen umfassenden Vergleich von uber 50 Fallen von Wahlrechtserweiterungen an Nicht-Staatsangehoerige auf der ganzen Welt bietet dieses Buch eine breite empirische Basis, um diese Reformen zu rekonstruieren und erklart gleichzeitig, wie Staatsburgerschaft verstanden wird. Durch mehrere Vergleichsmethoden widerlegt die Autorin die Idee, dass manche Lander eine bestimmte "ethnische" und andere eine "liberale" Staatburgerschaftskultur haben, die alle damit verbundenen Fragen determiniert. Vielmehr reflektieren die Debatten, wie Entscheidungstrager in einem dynamischen politischen Kontext ihre Reformvorschlage sowohl mittels auf Grundlage historischer Bedingungen als auch zeitgenoessischer politischer Haltungen gestalten.

In Citizenship Beyond Nationality, Luicy Pedroza considers immigrants who have settled in democracies and who live indistinguishably from citizens-working, paying taxes, making social contributions, and attending schools-yet lack the status, gained either through birthright or naturalization, that would give them full electoral rights. Referring to this population as denizens, Pedroza asks what happens to the idea of democracy when a substantial part of the resident population is unable to vote? Her aim is to understand how societies justify giving or denying electoral rights to denizens. Pedroza undertakes a comparative examination of the processes by which denizen enfranchisement reforms occur in democracies around the world in order to understand why and in what ways they differ. The first part of the book surveys a wide variety of reforms, demonstrating that they occur across polities that have diverse naturalization rules and proportions of denizens. The second part explores denizen enfranchisement reforms as a matter of politics, focusing on the ways in which proposals for reform were introduced, debated, decided, and reintroduced in two important cases: Germany and Portugal. Further comparing Germany and Portugal to long familiar cases, she reveals how denizen enfranchisement processes come to have a limited scope, or to even fail, and yet reignite. In the final part, Pedroza connects her theoretical and empirical arguments to larger debates on citizenship and migration. Citizenship Beyond Nationality argues that the success and type of denizen enfranchisement reforms rely on how the matter is debated by key political actors and demonstrates that, when framed ambitiously and in inclusive terms, these deliberations have the potential to redefine democratic citizenship not only as a status but as a matter of politics and policy.