Besselink Leonard F. M.

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• Integration and Immigration: The Vicissitudes of Dutch ‘inburgering’

  24 June 2008
  The Netherlands has set an example to a range of other EU Member States in devising measures to integrate immigrants not only as a goal in itself, but as part of a restrictive migration policy. This essay describes the vicissitudes of ‘integration programmes’ (inburgering) in the Netherlands. It focuses on law, and we reflect in particular on the legislation through which these programmes were to be enforced.

• German Federal Constitutional Court : Judgment 7 May 2008 (2 BvE 1/03)

  20 May 2008
  The deployment of German soldiers in AWACS aircraft above Turkey in the war against Iraq in spring 2003, required the consent of the Bundestag (the German Federal Parliament).

• Expulsion and integration: Erecting Internal Borders within the Kingdom of the Netherlands

  12 September 2006
  The Dutch government has been developing a policy of integration measures under the Dutch word inburgering. This choice of word relates the issue to citizenship. The policy began in the 1990s as a socio-educational measure, particularly providing courses to members of ethnic minorities. In the course of the last years, the measures have changed nature.

• De Binnengrenzen van het Koninkrijk, Of: Het voorontwerp ‘Verbanning en Inburgering’

  29 May 2006
  Op 30 januari heeft de minister voor Vreemdelingenzaken en Integratie een voorontwerp (met memorie van toelichting) gepubliceerd van een Wet houdende aanvullende maatregelen inzake het verblijf in Nederland van Antilliaanse en Arubaanse risicojongeren en inzake inburgering van Antilliaanse en Arubaanse Nederlanders. Inmiddels is dit voorstel voor advisering door de ministerraad naar de Raad van State gezonden. Dit is de voorlopige uitkristallisering van een reeks nogal problematische voorstellen met betrekking tot een inburgeringsplicht voor buiten het land Nederland geboren Nederlanders die zich in Nederland willen vestigen.

• The Nexus between Immigration, Integration and Citizenship in the EU

  12 April 2006
  What is the nexus between immigration, integration and citizenship in the EU, and what are the effects emerging from that relationship? The papers presented at the CHALLENGE seminar of 25 January 2006 addressed these questions and offered an overview of the main trends, issues, uncertainties and vulnerabilities surrounding these contested issues.

• Inburgering, gelijke behandeling en verblijfsrecht van vreemdelingen in Nederland

  20 juni 2005
  Deze notitie bevat enige opmerkingen die behulpzaam kunnen zijn bij het beantwoorden van een aantal vragen die gesteld zijn in verband met de juridische houdbaarheid van voorstellen tot uitbreiding en aanscherping van de inburgeringsplicht voor buiten de EU/EER (in Europa) geboren personen, neergelegd in de zogenoemde contourennota ‘Herziening van het inburgeringsstelsel’, dat namens het kabinet door de minister voor Vreemdelingenzaken en Integratie op 23 april 2004 aan de Tweede Kamer is aangeboden (verder te noemen: de Contourennota).

• Integration, equal treatment and the right of abode of aliens in the Netherlands

  20 June 2005
  This report was written for the Adviescommissie Vreemdelingenzaken (Advisory Committee on Aliens’ Affairs), an official advisory body to the government and parliament of the Netherlands, in preparation for an official advisory opinion of this Committee. The report considered proposals put forward in May 2004 by the Dutch Government to subject persons, irrespective of their nationality, who come from abroad to reside in the Netherlands, who are born outside the European territory of the European Union and European Economic Area, and who do not have an adequate knowledge of the Dutch language and Dutch society to the requirement of passing a test on pain of an administrative sanction which exists either in not awarding a permanent title of residence or in a fine.

• The relation between national, European and international law with respect to European borders; the security implications of this relationship; the specific effects of agreements on freedom of movement of goods, capital, services and persons

  30 November 2004
  This package aims at an input of the securitization debate in legal circles and from legal studies into political and social science. It intends to clarify the shifts in governance in security issues at the physical borders of political society in Europe. Main results shall consist of interim reports relating to the various issues summed up, and a final report in book form with the analytical issues, their results, final conclusions and recommendations.