Thomas Janoski

The Ironies of Citizenship

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Produktbeschreibung

Explanations of naturalization and jus soli citizenship have relied on cultural, convergence, racialization, or capture theories, and they tend to be strongly affected by the literature on immigration. This study of naturalization breaks with the usual immigration theories and proposes an approach over centuries and decades toward explaining naturalization rates. First, it provides consistent evidence to support the long-term existence of colonizer, settler, non-colonizer, and Nordic nationality regime types that frame naturalization over centuries. Second it shows how left and green parties, along with an index of nationality laws, explain the lion's share of variation in naturalization rates. The text makes these theoretical claims believable by using the most extensive data set to date on naturalization rates that include jus soli births. It analyzes this data with a combination of carefully designed case studies comparing two to four countries within and between regime types.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9780521145411
• ISBN-10: 0521145414
• Artikelnr.: 29984555

Autorenporträt

Thomas Janoski is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of Citizenship and Civil Society (1998) and The Political Economy of Unemployment. He is lead editor of The Handbook of Political Sociology (with Alexander Hicks, Mildred Schwartz, and the late Robert Alford) and co-editor of The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State (with Alexander Hicks).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: the politics of granting citizenship; 2. Wide measures with synthetic and dynamic methods; Part I. The Colonizers and Settlers: 3. Colonization in reverse: the degrees of empire in the UK and France; 4. From manifest destiny to multi-culturalism in the settler countries; Part II. Matched Case Studies and Exceptions: 5. European colonizer versus short term occupier: Austria and Germany; 6. World colonizer versus late occupier: The Netherlands and Belgium; 7. Left and green politics trump regime types in Nordic countries; Part III. The Comprehensive Analysis of Naturalization Rates: 8. Explaining naturalization rates in eighteen countries: regimes over centuries and politics and institutions over decades; 9. Conclusion - explanations and future of citizenship.

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1. Introduction: the politics of granting citizenship; 2. Wide measures
with synthetic and dynamic methods; Part I. The Colonizers and Settlers: 3.
Colonization in reverse: the degrees of empire in the UK and France;
4. From manifest destiny to multi-culturalism in the settler countries;
Part II. Matched Case Studies and Exceptions: 5. European colonizer versus
short term occupier: Austria and Germany; 6. World colonizer versus late
occupier: The Netherlands and Belgium; 7. Left and green politics trump
regime types in Nordic countries; Part III. The Comprehensive Analysis of
Naturalization Rates: 8. Explaining naturalization rates in eighteen
countries: regimes over centuries and politics and institutions over
decades; 9. Conclusion - explanations and future of citizenship.

Rezensionen

"The Ironies of Citizenship brings together an unprecedented wealth of information on citizenship that spans more than three decades and 18 countries. Janoski uses his impressive store of legal knowledge and naturalization statistics to forcefully argue that contemporary politics and historical experiences, especially of colonialism, are the driving forces behind immigrants' formal political membership today. An important, empirically-grounded addition to current debates about immigrant citizenship."
-Irene Bloemraad, University of California, Berkeley