Autorentext
Nicole Stokes-DuPass is a political sociologist whose research focuses on the state, international migration, citizenship, social integration, and Scandinavian and European studies.

Ramona Fruja is a sociologist of education who examines the intersections among immigration, learning contexts and identity, focusing on immigrants' experiences with education and citizenship in their multiple forms.

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Zusammenfassung

This volume examines citizenship and belonging in a revealing array of national settings by positioning citizenship policies as state mechanisms that actively shape the outcomes of those within nation-states.

Inhalt

1. Constructing the Boundaries of US Citizenship in the Era of Enforcement and Securitization; Sofya Aptekar
2. Enduring Practices of Scrutiny: State-Centered Perspectives on Naturalization and Integration Requirements in Germany and Denmark; Ramona Fruja
3. Politics of Belonging: From National to Personal and the Political Framing of "Dutch" Identity and Ethnic Minority Citizens; Marieke Slootman and Jan Willem Duyvendak
4. Conceiving Citizenship and Statelessness in the Middle East and Sweden: The Experiences of Kurdish Migrants in Sweden; Barzoo Eliassi
5. Change, Challenge and Continuity in Qatari Development: Identity and Citizenship in the Fulcrum of Hyper-Globalization; David Mednicoff
6. Regimes of Political Belonging: Turkey and Egypt in Comparative Perspective; Sinem Adar
7. Recognition as a Relationship of Power and Struggle: The Governing of Kurds and Alevis in Turkey; Ozlem Goner
8. Situating the Syrian State: Nation and Education (1914-2014); Idir Ouahes
9. Permanently Waiting: The Kenyan State and the Refugee Protection Regime; Erika L. Iverson