Citizenship and Immigrant Incorporation Comparative Perspectives on North America and Western Europe

by Yurdakul, Gökçe; Bodemann, Y. Michal

• ISBN13: 9780230600133
• ISBN10: 0230600131
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

In recent years, scholarly attention has shifted away from debates on ethnicityto focus on issues of migration and citizenship. Inspired, in part, by earlier studies on European guestworker migration, thesedebates are fed by the new "transnational mobility", by the immigration of Muslims, by the increasing importance of human rights law, and by the critical attention now paid to women migrants. With respect to citizenship, many discussions address the diverse citizenship regimes. The presentvolume, together with its predecessor (Bodemann and Yurdakul 2006), addresses these often contentiousissues. A common denominator which unites the various contributions is the question ofmigrant agency, in other words, the ways in whichWestern societies are not only transforming migrants, but are themselves being transformed by new migrations.

Author Biography

Gökçe Yurdakul is Assistant Professor in the department of sociology at Brock University, Canada. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. Her dissertation, Mobilizing Kreuzberg: Political Representation, Immigrant Incorporation and Turkish Associations in Berlin, compares five immigrant associations and their claims for political representation in Germany. Her teaching and research interests include migration, citizenship, race and ethnicity, gender, and women. She has published in edited books and academic journals, such as Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, German Politics and Society and Soziale Welt. She is currently doing research on how Turkish immigrants and Jews relate to one another in the German diaspora.
 
Michal Bodemann is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. Today, his areas of research and teaching include race and ethnic relations, classical sociological theory, qualitative methods, Jewish studies, and especially German-Jewish relations and memory. He has published numerous articles and books on Jews in Germany, notably his book, Gedächnistheater. Die jüdische Gemeinschaft und ihre deutsche Erfindung, (Theatre of Memory. The Jewish Community and its German Invention, 1996). He is conducting further research on Jews in contemporary Germany. His most recent monograph is A Jewish Family in Germany Today: An Intimate Portrait (Duke University Press, 2004). Gökçe Yurdakul and Michal Bodemann are the editors of Migration, Citizenship, Ethnos ( Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Changing Nature of Migration in North America

The Changing Nature of Migration in the 21st Century: Implications for Integration Strategies

The Economic Adaptation of Past and Present Immigrants: Lessons from a Comparative-Historical Approach

Citizenship and Pluralism: Multiculturalism in a World of Global Migration

Diaspora, Religion and Counter-Traditions

Islam and Multicultural Societies: A Transatlantic Comparison

The Changing Contours of Immigrant Religious Life

Crafting an Identity in the Diaspora: Iranian Immigrants in the United States

Immigrant Workers and the Nation-State

Nation-State Building Projects and the Politics of Transnational Migration: Locating Salvadoran Migrants in Canada, the United States and El Salvador

Freedom to Discriminate: National State Sovereignty and Temporary Visa Workers in North America

Professionals and Saints: How Post-Soviet Immigrants Do Home-Care Work

Immigrant Integration into Social Institutions

'We Are Together Strong'?: The Unhappy Marriage between Migrant Associations and Trade Unions in Germany

Liberal Values and Illiberal Cultures: The Question of Sharia Tribunals in Ontario

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