Citizenship

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-4051-0552-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 265 g

A significant addition to the growing body of literature on citizenship, this wide-ranging overview focuses on the importance, and changing nature, of citizenship. It introduces the varied discourses and theories that have arisen in recent years, and looks toward future scholarship in the field.
- Offers an analytical assessment of the various thematic discourses and provides guidance in pulling together those discrete themes into a larger, more comprehensive framework
- Identifies the four broadly conceived themes that shape the many discourses on contemporary citizenship – inclusion, erosion, withdrawal, and expansion
- Includes a thorough introduction to the subject

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kivisto, Peter

Faist, Thomas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction 1

Expansion or Erosion? 3

Four Themes 6

The Future of Citizenship 13

2 Inclusion 15

The Dialectic of Inclusion and Exclusion 17

Multiculturalism as a Mode of Inclusion 34

The Lesson to Be Drawn from Existing Theory and Praxis 47

3 Erosion 49

Dimensions of Citizenship 50

T. H. Marshall and the Expansion of Citizenship Rights 51

Critiques of the Welfare State 56

The Triumph of the Market over Citizenship? 66

4 Withdrawal 75

Individualism and Its Discontents: Tocqueville Revisited 77

Enter Putnam 84

The Third Way and Social Democracy 96

5 Expansion 102

Dual Citizenship 103

Which Nations Permit and Which Prohibit Dual Citizenship? 111

Nested Citizenship 122

Toward Global Citizenship? 128

6 Future Trends 130

Internal Factors Shaping Citizenship Regimes 131

Citizenship and Globalization 138

References 141

Index 161

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Kivisto is Richard Swanson Professor of Social Thought and Professor and Chair of Sociology at Augustana College. He is the author of Immigrant Socialists in the United States (1984), For Democracy (1993), and Americans All (1995), and is the editor of The Ethnic Enigma (1989) and Multiculturalism in the United States (2000). Dr Kivisto is also the editor of The Sociological Quarterly.

Thomas Faist is Professor of Transnational Relations and Development Studies at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University. He is the author of The Volume and Dynamics of International Migration and Transnational Social Spaces (2000), Transnational Social Spaces (2004), and The Politics of Dual Citizenship in Europe (2007). He currently directs a project on transnational migration and development. He is the Deputy Editor of The Sociological Quarterly.