Challenging Ethnic Citizenship

by Levy, Daniel; Weiss, Yfaat

• ISBN13: 9781571812919
• ISBN10: 1571812911
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

In contrast to most other countries, both Germany and Israel have descent-based concepts of nationhood and have granted members of their nation (ethnic Germans and Jews) who wish to immigrate automatic access to their respective citizenship privileges. Therefore these two countries lend themselves well to comparative analysis of the integration process of immigrant groups, who are formally part of the collective "self" but increasingly transformed into "others." The book examines the integration of these 'privileged'immigrants in relation to the experiences of other minority groups (e.g. labor migrants, Palestinians). This volume offers rich empirical and theoretical material involving historical developments, demographic changes, sociological problems, anthropological insights, and political implications. Focusing on the three dimensions of citizenship: sovereignty and control, the allocation of social and political rights, and questions of national self-understanding, the essays bring to light the elements that are distinctive for either society but also point to similarities that owe as much to nation-specific characteristics as to evolving patterns of global migration. Daniel Levyis Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He was previously Research Fellow at Harvard's Center for European Studies. His publications reflect his research interests in the comparative sociology of immigration in Europe and collective memory studies. Yfaat Weissstudied at the Universities of Tel-Aviv and Hamburg and is presently a Senior Lecturer in the Department for Jewish History at Haifa University and Director of the Bucerius Center for Research of Contemporary German History and Society. She has written on Eastern European Jewry in Germany and on Zionism and the State of Israel.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	v
Introduction: Changing Configurations of German and Israeli Immigration Regimes---a Comparative Perspective	1	(14)
Daniel Levy
Part I Citizenship and Migration
Ethnos or Demos? Migration and Citizenship in Germany	15	(21)
Rainer Munz
From Haven to Heaven: Changing Patterns of Immigration to Israel	36	(23)
Yinon Cohen
Part II Citizenship and Naturalization
Citizenship and Naturalization Politics in Germany in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries	59	(17)
Dieter Gosewinkel
Reform of the Citizenship Law: The Debate over Dual Citizenship in Germany	76	(6)
Ralf Fucks
The Golem and Its Creator, or How the Jewish Nation-State Became Multiethnic	82	(25)
Yfaat Weiss
Part III Minorities and Incorporation Regimes
German Citizenship Policy and Sinti Identity Politics	107	(14)
Gilad Margalit
Beyond the ``Second Generation'': Rethinking the Place of Migrant Youth Culture in Berlin	121	(16)
Levent Soysal
Migration Regimes and Social Rights: Migrant Workers in the Israeli Welfare State	137	(17)
Zeev Rosenhek
Ethnicity and Citizenship in the Perception of Russian Israelis	154	(27)
Dimitry Shumsky
Part IV Citizenship and Identity
Nationalism, Identity, and Citizenship: An Epilogue to the Yehoshua-Shammas Debate	181	(15)
Baruch Kimmerling
The Future of Arab Citizenship in Israel: Jewish-Zionist Time in a Place with No Palestinian Memory	196	(25)
Hassan Jabareen
The Transformation of Germany's Ethno-cultural Idiom: The Case of Ethnic German Immigrants	221	(18)
Daniel Levy
Part V Revisiting Citizenship and Identity: The Jewish Experience
The Jewish Challenges in the New Europe	239	(14)
Diana Pinto
From Citizen Warrior to Citizen Shopper and Back: New Modes of Cosmopolitan Citizenship	253	(15)
Natan Sznaider
Afterword: Outlook(s)---Citizenship in the Global Era	268	(9)
Daniel Levy
Yfaat Weiss
Notes on Contributors	277	(3)
Index	280