Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The forms, policies, and practices of citizenship are changing rapidly around the globe, and the meaning of these changes is the subject of deep dispute. Citizenship Today brings together leading experts in their field to define the core issues at stake in the citizenship debates. The first section investigates central trends in national citizenship policy that govern access to citizenship, the rights of aliens, and plural nationality. The following section explores how forms of citizenship and their practice are, can, and should be located within broader institutional structures. The third section examines different conceptions of citizenship as developed in the official policies of governments, the scholarly literature, and the practice of immigrants and the final part looks at the future for citizenship policy. Contributors include Rainer Baubck (Austrian Academy of Sciences), Linda Bosniak (Rutgers University School of Law, Camden), Francis Mading Deng (Brookings Institute), Adrian Favell (University of Sussex, UK), Richard Thompson Ford (Stanford University), Vicki C. Jackson (Georgetown University Law Center), Paul Johnston (Citizenship Project), Christian Joppke (European University Institute, Florence), Karen Knop (University of Toronto), Micheline Labelle (Universit du Qubec Montral), Daniel Sale (Concordia University, Montreal), and Patrick Weil (University of Paris 1, Sorbonne)
Table of Contents
National policies in comparative perspective. Access to citizenship : a comparison of twenty-five nationality laws / Patrick Weil. The evolution of alien rights in the United States, Germany, and the European Union / Christian Joppke. Plural nationality : facing the future in a migratory world / T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Douglas Klusmeyer Relational nationality : on gender and nationality in international law / Karen Knop -- Locations of citizenship. Citizenship and federalism / Vicki C. Jackson. Ethnic marginalization as statelessness : lessons from the Great Lakes Region of Africa / Francis Deng. "City-states" and citizenship / Richard T. Ford -- Redefining citizenship : concepts and practices. Denationalizing citizenship / Linda Bosniak. The emergence of transnational citizenship among Mexican immigrants in California / Paul Johnston. Immigrant and minority representations of citizenship in Quebec / Micheline Labelle and Daniel Salée -- Concluding reflections. Cultural citizenship, minority rights, and self-government / Rainer Baubèock. Integration policy and integration research in Europe : a review and critique / Adrian Favell.