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The recent literature on the rights of third-country nationals and their subsequent acquisition of residence rights and citizenship status highlights the fulfilment of integration requirements, such as language proficiency and citizenship tests (Joppke, 2007; Mourão Permoser, 2012). This has instigated scholarly and public debates on whether integration policies are in fact becoming a tool of an exclusionary immigration policy or whether they can be understood as an instance of symbolic politics, with the primary aim of sending a restrictive message to (potential) migrants. Such requirements exist likewise in Austria. I argue, however, that classification of aliens and the fulfilment of income requirements are powerful state technologies to assign rights and secure residence status to third-country nationals. Historically, the tendency has clearly been towards the expansion of residence rights for third-country nationals. The respective European Union directives were important milestones in harmonising the requirements and scope of rights. Focusing on the relevance of these new mechanisms — classification and income requirements — I attempt to contribute to comparative studies on the rights of third-country nationals by showing that the new requirements lead to new forms of inclusion and exclusion, and ultimately tend to reduce access to rights for many migrants.
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Ataç, İ. (2014). Conditions as Internal Borders: The Case of ‘Security of Residence’ for Third-Country Nationals in Austria. In: Schwenken, H., Ruß-Sattar, S. (eds) New Border and Citizenship Politics. Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137326638_9
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