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Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
""Well documented, but slim and readable, even for general adult readers."" - Choice ."sophisticated and highly informative.The authors and topics are diverse and represent a spectrum of useful progressive thought." - International Migration Review In contrast to most other countries, both Germany and Israel have descent-based concepts of nationhood and have granted members of their nation who wish to immigrate automatic access to their respective citizenship privileges. Which lends to a rich comparative analysis of the integration process of immigrant groups. 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 Levy is 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 Weiss studied 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
Changing configurations of German and Israeli immigration regimes : a comparative perspective /Daniel Levy --Ethnos or Demos? : migration and citizenship in Germany /Rainer Mèunz --From haven to heaven : changing patterns of immigration to Israel /Yinon Cohen --Citizenship and naturalization politics in Germany in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries /Dieter Gosewinkel --Reform of the citizenship law : the debate over dual citizenship in Germany /Ralf Fèucks --Golem and its creator, or how the Jewish nation-state became multiethnic /Yfaat Weiss --German citizenship policy and Sinti identity politics /Gilad Margalit --Beyond the "second generation" : rethinking the place of migrant youth culture in Berlin /Levent Soysal --Migration regimes and social rights : migrant workers in the Israeli welfare state /Zeev Rosenhek --Ethnicity and citizenship in the perception of Russian Israelis /Dmitry Shumsky --Nationalism, identity, and citizenship : an epilogue to the Yehoshua-Shammas debate /Baruch Kimmerling --Future of Arab citizenship in Israel : Jewish-Zionist time in a place with no Palestinian memory /Hassan Jabareen --Transformation of Germany's ethno-cultural idiom : the case of ethnic German immigrants /Daniel Levy --Jewish challenges in the new Europe /Diana Pinto --From citizen warrior to citizen shopper and back : new modes of cosmopolitan citizenship /Natan Sznaider --Outlook(s) : citizenship in the global era /Daniel Levy and Yfaat Weiss.