Challenging Ethnic Citizenship
Title | Challenging Ethnic Citizenship PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Levy |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | 290 |
Release | 2002-05-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1782381635 |
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.
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Citizenship and Ethnic Conflict
Title | Citizenship and Ethnic Conflict PDF eBook |
Author | Haldun Gülalp |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 184 |
Release | 2006-07-13 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1134203802 |
Making a new case for separating citizenship from nationality, this book comparatively examines a key selection of nation-states in terms of their definitions of nationality and citizenship, and the ways in which the association of some with the European Union has transformed these definitions. In a combination of case studies from Europe and the Middle East, this book’s comparative framework addresses the question of citizenship and ethnic conflict from the foundation of the nation-state, to the current challenges raised by globalization. This edited volume examines six different countries and looks at the way that ethnic or religious identity lies at the core of the national community, ultimately determining the state’s definition and treatment of its citizens. The selected contributors to this new volume investigate this common ambiguity in the construction of nations, and look at the contrasting ways in which the issues of citizenship and identity are handled by different nation-states. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars studying in the areas of citizenship and the nation-state, ethnic conflict, globalization and Middle Eastern and European Politics.
Migrant Mothers' Creative Challenges to Racialized Citizenship
Title | Migrant Mothers' Creative Challenges to Racialized Citizenship PDF eBook |
Author | Umut Erel |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 176 |
Release | 2019-12-14 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1351008269 |
How do racialized migrant mothers contest hegemonic racialized formations of citizenship? Bringing together leading scholars from international and multi-disciplinary perspectives, this book shows how migrant mothers realise and problematise their role in bringing up future citizens in modern societies, increasingly characterised by racial, ethnic, religious, cultural and social diversity. The book stimulates critical thinking on how migrant mothers creatively intervene into citizenship by reworking its racialized meanings and creating new, racially plural practices and challenging boundaries. The contributions explore the processes that shape migrant mothers’ cultural and caring work in enabling their children to occupy a place as future citizens despite and against their racialized subordination. The book contributes to disciplinary fields of politics, sociology, anthropology, psychoanalysis, participatory arts practice and theory, geography, queer and gender studies, looking at the thematic areas of participatory arts, family forms, social activism, and education in the US, Canada, the UK, France, Portugal. These cross-cultural and disciplinary perspectives contribute to the exciting emergence of a distinctive field of research engaging with pressing intellectual and social issues of how ideas and practices of citizenship develop in the face of increasing spatial mobility and across boundaries of generation and ethnicity, in the process requiring new, creative interventions into how we think about and do citizenship. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Immigration as a Democratic Challenge
Title | Immigration as a Democratic Challenge PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Rubio-Marín |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 284 |
Release | 2000-05 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9780521777704 |
Examining Germany and the United States, this book argues that immigration policy in Western democracies is unjust and undemocratic.
Education for Democratic Citizenship
Title | Education for Democratic Citizenship PDF eBook |
Author | Roberta S. Sigel |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 234 |
Release | 2013-01-11 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1136470247 |
It is becoming increasingly clear that members of a host nation as well as newcomers have to learn what it means to live democratically in a multi-ethnic world and to accept diversity without fear or rancor. This volume, a result of a conference sponsored by the Spencer Foundation, asks a question of increasing significance in view of post World War II immigration patterns and the spread of democratic forms of government: "What can educational researchers and practitioners do to prepare our youth for cooperative, constructive living in a democracy?" This book illustrates how six post-industrial nations -- Canada, Germany, Israel, The Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States -- have met or failed to meet this challenge.
Ethnicity, Citizenship and State in Eastern Africa
Title | Ethnicity, Citizenship and State in Eastern Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Aquiline S. J. Tarimo |
Publisher | African Books Collective |
Total Pages | 162 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9956579998 |
This volume, from an Africa perspective, examines the relationship between ethnicity and citizenship within the framework of nation-state. Its objective and scope engage relational aspects of political integration, awaken public conscience, and motivate civic engagement. It provides a platform that could be considered prerequisite for political transformation. Such a framework is indispensable not only for challenging the politics of exclusion and marginalization, but also for reconstructing fractured social relationships. The test of its validity and relevancy is not whether it accounts for particular traditions, but whether it provides a framework through which we can comprehend the dynamics of ethnic identities as an avenue for promoting participatory governance and democratic accountability. An interdisciplinary study of this kind brings forth practical and theoretical contributions to the evolving concepts of ethnicity and citizenship.