In comparative studies of European migration and civic integration, most attention tends to be invested in analyzing the content of policies and national citizenship models. How these policies have been operationalized, i.e., how different European governments translated their policies into actual civic integration programs, is a relatively less explored area of study. In this article, the Bourdieusian concept of ‘field’ guides us in opening the box of national models and generates a complex and dynamic analysis of civic integration as a policy field: Which actors have been involved in processes of defining the form and content of civic integration? How has their involvement affected the rules and norms of the resulting civic integration regime? These are the main questions the case studies address, relying on original empirical qualitative data gathered in 2011 in France, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Using historical analysis, I reconstruct and compare how the composition of the particular civic integration field in each country influenced the actual civic integration programs as migrants experienced them in practice.

在欧洲移民和公民融合的比较研究中，大多数注意力都集中在分析政策内容和国家公民身份模型上。这些政策如何实施，即不同的欧洲政府如何将其政策转化为实际的公民融合计划，是一个相对较少研究的领域。在本文中，布尔迪厄斯的“领域”概念指导我们打开国家模式的盒子，并对公民融合作为政策领域进行复杂而动态的分析：哪些参与者参与了界定公民形式和内容的过程积分？他们的参与如何影响由此产生的公民融合制度的规则和规范？这些是案例研究要解决的主要问题，依赖于2011年在法国，英国和荷兰收集的原始经验定性数据。通过历史分析，我重建并比较了每个国家特定公民融合领域的构成如何对实际移民实践产生影响的移民实践。