Immigration and the Nation-State - The United States, Germany, and Great Britain

Zusatztext provide important insights into the domestic determinants shaping immigration policy today ...Joppkes forthright and forceful assertion of the resilience of the nation-state in managing immigration policy should prove to be as useful and thought-provoking for policymakers as for scholars. Informationen zum Autor Christian Joppke is Associate Professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, Florence. He is the author of East German Dissidents and the Revolution of 1989 (1995), and the editor of Challenge to the Nation-State (OUP, 1998), and Multicultural Questions (with Steven Lukes, OUP, forthcoming). Klappentext This important new study compares the postwar politics of immigration control and immigrant integration in the United States! Germany! and Great Britain. Against current diagnoses of nation-states diminished by globalization and international human rights regimes and discourses! the author argues that nation-states have proved remarkably resilient! at least in the face of immigration. Zusammenfassung This important new study compares the postwar politics of immigration control and immigrant integration in the United States, Germany, and Great Britain. Against current diagnoses of nation-states diminished by globalization and international human rights regimes and discourses, the author argues that nation-states have proved remarkably resilient, at least in the face of immigration. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Immigration and the Nation-State Part 1. Embattled Entry 2: A Nation of Immigrants, Again: The United States 3: Not a Country of Immigration: Germany 4: The Zero-Immigration Country: Great Britain Part 2. Multicultural Integration 5: `Race' Attacks the Melting Pot: The United States 6: From Postnational Membership to Citizenship: Germany 7: Between Citizenship and Race: Great Britain 8: Resilient Nation-States ...

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• Authors: Christian Joppke, Christian (Associate Professor Joppke, Joppke Christian
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.04.1999
• EAN: 9780198295402
• ISBN: 978-0-19-829540-2
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, Germany, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Political science & theory, Political structure & processes, Migration, immigration & emigration, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Migration, immigration and emigration, Political science and theory, Civil rights & citizenship, Political structure and processes, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Civics and citizenship, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples