Postcolonial Citizens and Ethnic Migration - The Netherlands and Japan in the Age of Globalization

"As the velocity and intensity of migrations increase around the world, legal citizenship and ethnicity are becoming two of the most contested issues facing the modern state. Many of today's debates about immigration are focused on arguments around the positive and negative effects of increased ethnic diversity and who should be entitled to legal membership. What does it mean politically then to arrive in a country privileged as a legal citizen or co-ethnic? This book is the first to comparatively analyze the political realities of Dutch Antillean citizens in the Netherlands, and Latin American Nikkeijin (Japanese descendants) in Japan, who inherit host state access as post-colonial citizens and ethnic immigrants. Sharpe's unique cross-regional investigation considers the ways in which globalization, immigration, citizenship, and ethnicity interact as a means to understanding some of the strains and contradictions of membership in contemporary liberal democratic states. Postcolonial Citizens and Ethnic Migration will appeal to a wide range of scholars in political science, sociology, anthropology, international relations, ethnic studies and migration"--

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• Authors: Michael O Sharpe, Michael O. Sharpe, M. Sharpe, Michael O. Sharpe
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.01.2014
• EAN: 9781137270542
• ISBN: 978-1-137-27054-2
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Palgrave Studies in International Relations; Palgrave Studies in Internatio; Palgrave Studies in Internatio; Palgrave Studies in International Relations
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Migration, Internationale Beziehungen, Verstehen, B, Ethnische Gruppen und multikulturelle Studien, Migration, Einwanderung und Auswanderung, Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Globalization, Bevölkerung und Migrationsgeographie, Political Sociology, International Relations, Politics & government, Migration, immigration & emigration, Ethnicity, Sociology, general, Emigration and immigration, Ethnicity Studies, Race and Ethnicity Studies, Palgrave Intern. Relations & Development Collection, Human Migration, Population and migration geography