1st Edition

The Politics of Citizenship in Immigrant Democracies The Experience of the United States, Canada and Australia

Edited By Geoffrey Brahm Levey, Ayelet Shachar Copyright 2015
150 Pages
by Routledge

150 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

This book brings together scholars from various disciplines to explore current issues and trends in the rethinking of migration and citizenship from the perspective of three major immigrant democracies – Australia, Canada, and the United States. These countries share a history of pronounced immigration and emigration, extensive experience with diasporic and mobile communities, and with... Read more

Preface

Geoffrey Brahm Levey and Ayelet Shacher

1. Introduction: Citizenship and the ‘right to have rights’

Ayelet Shachar

2. Political incorporation in America: immigrant partisans

Nancy Rosenblum and Andrea Tivig

3. Less than the sum of its parts: institutional realities and legal aspirations in early twenty-first century American immigration

Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar

4. Laissez-faire and its discontents: US naturalization and integration policy in comparative perspective

Noah Pickus

5. Liberal nationalism and the Australian citizenship tests

Geoffrey Brahm Levey

6. International migration at a crossroads

Stephen Castles

7. Faces of globalization and the borders of states: from asylum seekers to citizens

Paul James

8. The ideology of temporary labour migration in the post-global era

Catherine Dauvergne and Sarah Marsden

Biography

Geoffrey Brahm Levey is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

Ayelet Shacher is Professor of Law and Political Science in the University of Toronto, Canada, where she holds the Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Multiculturalism.