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
Table des matières
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
A propos de l’auteur
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.
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