Citizenship Tests: A Comparative, Communitarian Perspective |
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| Authors: | AMITAI ETZIONI |
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| Institution: | Professor of International Relations at The George Washington University, and most recently the author of Security First: For a Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy;(Yale University Press, 2007). |
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| Abstract: | The history, nature and scope of citizen naturalisation tests are briefly examined in this article, as well as their political and social applications. A comparison of tests from the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Germany highlights the ways in which these tests are used as immigration controls rather than as a way to establish preparation for citizenship. The difference in the content of the tests also reveal alternative conceptions of citizenship including authoritarian, liberal and neo-communitarian. |
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| Keywords: | naturalisation tests citizenship immigration communitarianism acculaturation diversity |
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