Toward Assimilation and Citizenship: Immigrants in Liberal Nation-States

By Pompa T. Banerjee and C. Joppke

This book surveys a new trend in immigration studies, which one could characterize as a turn away from multicultural and postnational perspectives, toward a renewed emphasis on assimilation and citizenship. Looking both at state policies and migrant practices, the contributions to this volume argue that (1) citizenship has remained the dominant membership principle in liberal nation-states, (2) multiculturalism policies are everywhere in retreat, and (3) contemporary migrants are simultaneously assimilating and transnationalizing.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140390491X
• ISBN13: 9781403904911
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 9.0"