Testing Times: The Place of the Citizenship Test in the UK Immigration Regime and New Citizens’ Responses to it
Testing Times: The Place of the Citizenship Test in the UK Immigration Regime and New Citizens’ Responses to it
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测试时间：公民身份测试在英国移民制度中的地位以及新公民对此的反应
作者：
B. Byrne
公民身份测试旨在确保新公民拥有成功“融入”所需的知识。本文探讨了那些参加过考试的人对考试内容的看法。它认为，新公民对有关移民和反移民情绪的辩论有很高的认识。考虑到新公民对测试的看法，这篇文章显示了他们中有多少人意识到测试在保证现有公民适合成为公民方面的作用。然而，一些新公民在“公民行为”中对这一定位提出质疑，他们声称对公民身份的要求不一定是由国家构建的，也不一定是在测试中暗示的。本文将认为，测试和通过测试所需的知识的性质有助于将新公民保留在一个不平等的公民身份的位置，这是在被discursively（如果不经常合法）撤销的风险。
Citizenship tests are designed to ensure that new citizens have the knowledge required for successful ‘integration’. This article explores what those who have taken the test thought about its content. It argues that new citizens had high levels of awareness of debates about immigration and anti-immigration sentiment. Considering new citizens’ views of the test, the article shows how many of them are aware of the role of the test in reassuring existing citizens of their fitness to be citizens. However, some new citizens contest this positioning in ‘acts of citizenship’ where they assert claims to citizenship which are not necessarily those constructed by the state and implied in the tests. The article will argue that the tests and the nature of the knowledge required to pass them serve to retain new citizens in a position of less-than-equal citizenship which is at risk of being discursively (if less often legally) revoked.
入籍政策、教育和公民身份
DOI：
10.1057/9781137315519_2
发表时间：
2013
期刊：
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影响因子：
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作者：
Kiwan D
通讯作者：
Kiwan D