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Since the mid 1990s ‘(active) citizenship' has been the
guiding principle for Dutch integration policy, but there is still
much obscurity about its content and its more concrete consequences.
This project aims at making a contribution to the political and
public debate on this topic, first of all by clarifying the concept
of citizenship from a political philosophical angle. The acquired
insights will then be applied to the situation in the Netherlands,
and more in particular, to a selection of cases.
The leading questions of the research project are:
1. What are conceivable conceptualizations of the notion of active
and responsible citizenship that can not only function as meaningful
leading principle for a policy of integration of immigrants in
a multicultural society, but that are also defensible from a normative
political philosophical point of view?
2. What clarification does this conceptualization of active citizenship
offer for the policy problems, dilemmas and alternatives the Dutch
government is or will be confronted with in pursuing an integration
policy for a multicultural society?
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