ABSTRACT
The tension of internal inclusion and external exclusion implies that the points of access for overcoming external exclusion are important sites of politics, both for the agent and the legislator. There are three possible steps of access for the externally excluded individual: first, access in the sense of entry to the country through immigration; second, access to a recognised status and limited rights within its scope; and finally third, access to full citizenship status. This chapter focuses on the conditions of access. The steps of access aim at producing well-integrated new citizens capable of realising their full citizenship status through participation in the polity, which has discursively linked access to citizenship with integration. The chapter argues that the conceptual nexus of earned citizenship, integration and citizenship conceptually link citizens and non-citizens, who in time may have the chance and desire to be granted full citizenship status. It illustrates the UK case study and provides examples of temporal demarcation.
