Synopses & Reviews
This series, published in association with the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, focuses on the immigration and refugee issues faced in particular by the U.S. and German governments. American and German scholars -- lawyers, sociologists, historians, political scientists, demographers, economists, and political philosophers -- have come together to examine the different approaches of the two countries from historical and contemporary perspectives as well as their policy options.
Synopsis
The United States is an immigrant country. Germany is not. This volume shatters this widely held myth and reveals the remarkable similarities (as well as the differences) between the two countries. Essays by leading German and American historians and demographers describe how these two countries have become to have the largest number of immigrants among advanced industrial countries, how their conceptions of citizenship and nationality differ, and how their ethnic compositions are likely to be transformed in the next century as a consequence ofmigration, fertility trends, citizenship and naturalization laws, and public attitudes.