Toward Assimilation and Citizenship

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 (1) citizenship has remained the dominant membership principle in liberal nation-states, (2) multiculturalism policies are everywhere in retreat, and (3) contemporary migrants are simultaneously assimilating and transnationalizing.

Autorentext
CHRISTIAN JOPPKE is a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, New York and former Professor of Sociology at the European University Institute.

EWA MORAWSKA is Professor of Sociology and History at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Inhalt
Integrating Immigrants in Liberal Nation-States: Policies and Practices; C.Joppke & E.Morawska PART ONE: CHANGING STATE POLICIES The Return of Assimilation? Changing Perspectives on Immigration and its Sequels in France, Germany, and the United States; H.Entzinger Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism in Europe; R.Hansen Between National and Postnational: Membership in the United States; A.Aleinikoff PART TWO: IMMIGRANTS BETWEEN ASSIMILATION AND TRANSNATIONALISM Immigrant Transnationalism and Assimilation in the United States: A Variety of Combinations and the Analytic Strategy it Suggests; E.Morawska Keeping Feet in Both Worlds: Transnational Practices and Immigrant Incorporation in the United States; P.Levitt How National citizenship Shapes Transnationalism: Migrant Claims-Making in Germany, Great Britain and the Netherlands; R.Koopermans & P.Statham