Toward assimilation and citizenship : immigrants in liberal nation-states /

Toward assimilation and citizenship : immigrants in liberal nation-states / edited by Christian Joppke and Ewa Morawska. - ix, 243 pages ; 23 cm. - Migration, minorities, and citizenship . - Migration, minorities, and citizenship. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Integrating Immigrants in Liberal Nation-States: Policies and Practices / Changing State Policies. The Return of Assimilation? Changing Perspectives of Immigration and its Sequels in France, Germany, and the United States / The Rise and Fall of Multiculturalism: The Case of the Netherlands / Citizenship and Integration in Europe / Between National and Postnational: Membership in the United States / Immigrants between Assimilation and Transnationalism. Immigrant Transnationalism and Assimilation: A Variety of Combinations and the Analytic Strategy it Suggests / Keeping Feet in Both Worlds: Transnational Practices and Immigrant Incorporation in the United States / How National Citizenship Shapes Transnationalism: Migrant and Minority Claims-making in Germany, Great Britain and the Netherlands / Christian Joppke and Ewa Morawska -- Rogers Brubaker. Han Entzinger. Randall Hansen. T. Alexander Aleinikoff -- Ewa Morawska. Peggy Levitt. Ruud Koopmans and Paul Statham. 1. Pt. I. 2. 3. 4. 5. Pt. II. 6. 7. 8.

"This book surveys a new trend in immigration studies: the turn away from multicultural and postnational perspectives toward a renewed emphasis on assimilation and citizenship. Most scholarship in the past decade, enticed by the discovery of "globalization" has argued that multiculturalism has replaced assimilation as the dominant mode of immigrant integration and that "postnational" or "transnational" identities and allegiances have devalued or even rendered obselete traditional citizenship. This volume challenges the orthodoxy in two directions, one discussing changing state policies, the other discussing migrant practices and adjustments. With respect to state policies, the book argues that citizenship has remained the dominant membership category in liberal nation-states. Moreover, the scope of multicultural policies has either been exaggerated in public and academic perception, or - where such policies were once in place - there has recently been a covert or overt move away from them. With respect to migrant practices and adjustments, the book argues that migrants are simultaneously assimilating and transnationalizing."--BOOK JACKET.

140390491X 9781403904911

2002029404


Immigrants--Cultural assimilation
Transnationalism
Citizenship--United States
Citizenship--Europe, Western


United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy
Europe, Western--Emigration and immigration--Government policy

JV6342 / .T68 2003

305.90691

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