Challenge to the Nation-State: Immigration in Western Europe and the United States

by Christian Joppke

Book Overview

This volume collects recent research by some of the world's leading figures in the fast-growing area of immigration studies. Relating the study of immigration to other, wider processes of social change, the book focuses on two key areas in which nation-states are being challenged by this phenomenon: sovereignty and citizenship. Separate clusters of scholarship have evolved around both areas, and this work attempts to unite these camps, sorting out...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198292295
• ISBN13: 9780198292296
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.7"