...This introductory chapter provides an overview of the relationship between citizenship and integration policies. Integration is increasingly a precondition to obtaining rights in several European states, and citizenship remains an important source of formal rights. However, citizenship remains...

... relationship between formal rights protection and actual rights observance. The article reveals that rights guarantees are more prone to failure than success as they depend substantially on environmental and institutional conditions. This article emphasizes a symbiosis between judicialization...

... to qualify a cultural or religious group for special recognition in liberal societies, and to counter these views, she notes that the unequal treatment of girls and women can mean that even though they may have a formal right to exit a group, their actual opportunities for doing so are far less adequate than...