Immigration and the Nation-State: The United States, Germany, and Great Britain

by Christian Joppke

Overview

This important new study compares the postwar politics of immigration control and immigrant integration in the United States, Germany, and Great Britain. Against current diagnoses of nation-states diminished by globalization and international human rights regimes and discourses, the author argues that nation-states have proved remarkably resilient, at least in the face of immigration.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198294283
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/20/2000
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Christian Joppke is Associate Professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, Florence. He is the author of East German Dissidents and the Revolution of 1989 (1995), and the editor of Challenge to the Nation-State (OUP, 1998), and Multicultural Questions (with Steven Lukes, OUP, forthcoming).

Table of Contents

1. Immigration and the Nation-StatePart 1. Embattled Entry2. A Nation of Immigrants, Again: The United States3. Not a Country of Immigration: Germany4. The Zero-Immigration Country: Great BritainPart 2. Multicultural Integration5. ‘Race' Attacks the Melting Pot: The United States6. From Postnational Membership to Citizenship: Germany7. Between Citizenship and Race: Great Britain8. Resilient Nation-States