Toward assimilation and citizenship : immigrants in liberal nation-states / edited by Christian Joppke and Ewa Morawska.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

"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.

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