Toward Assimilation and Citizenship Immigrants in Liberal Nation-States

by Joppke, Christian; Morawska, Ewa

• ISBN13: 9781403904911
• ISBN10: 140390491X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-06-14
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book surveys a new trend in immigration studies, which one could characterize as a turn away from multicultural and postnational perspectives, toward a renewed emphasis on assimilation and citizenship. Looking both at state policies and migrant practices, the contributions to this volume argue that citizenship has remained the dominant membership principle in liberal nation-states, that multiculturalism policies are everywhere in retreat, and that contemporary migrants are simultaneously assimilating and transnationalizing.

Author Biography

Christian Joppke is Associate Professor of Sociology and Political Science, European University Institute, Florence.

Ewa Morawska is Professor of Sociology and History, University of Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
List of Contributors	viii
Integrating Immigrants in Liberal Nation-States: Policies and Practices	1	(36)
Christian Joppke
Ewa Morawska
Part I: Changing State Policies	37	(94)
The Return of Assimilation? Changing Perspectives on Immigration and its Sequels in France, Germany, and the United States	39	(20)
Rogers Brubaker
The Rise and Fall of Multiculturalism: The Case of the Netherlands	59	(28)
Han Entzinger
Citizenship and Integration in Europe	87	(23)
Randall Hansen
Between National and Postnational: Membership in the United States	110	(21)
T. Alexander Aleinikoff
Part II: Immigrants between Assimilation and Transnationalism	131	(108)
Immigrant Transnationalism and Assimilation: A Variety of Combinations and the Analytic Strategy it Suggests	133	(44)
Ewa Morawska
Keeping Feet in Both Worlds: Transnational Practices and Immigrant Incorporation in the United States	177	(18)
Peggy Levitt
How National Citizenship Shapes Transnationalism: Migrant and Minority Claims-making in Germany, Great Britain and the Netherlands	195	(44)
Ruud Koopmans
Paul Statham
Index	239