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MPI Publications	Publications > 2000 > From Migrants to Citizens

From Migrants to Citizens: Membership in a Changing World

T. Alexander Aleinikoff and and Douglas B. Klusmeyer, editors

Order the Book Price: $24.95
Paperback, 514 pp.
ISBN: 0-87003-159-7
Publisher: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Spring 2000
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Table of Contents
Introduction (PDF file)

About the Book:

Citizenship policies are changing rapidly in the face of global migration trends and the inevitable ethnic and racial diversity that follows. The debates are fierce. What should the requirements of citizenship be? How can multi-ethnic states forge a collective identity around a common set of values, beliefs, and practices? What are appropriate criteria for admission and what are the rights and duties of citizens? This book includes nine case studies that investigate immigration and citizenship in Australia, the Baltic States, Canada, the European Union, Israel, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, and the United States. This complete collection of essays scrutinizes the concrete rules and policies by which states administer citizenship, and highlights similarities and differences in their policies.

From Migrants to Citizens is the only comprehensive guide to citizenship policies in these liberal-democratic and emerging states. It will be an invaluable reference for scholars in law, political science, and citizenship theory. Policymakers and government officials involved in managing citizenship policy in the United States and abroad will find this an excellent, accessible overview of the critical dilemmas that multi-ethnic societies face as a result of migration and global interdependencies at the end of the twentieth century.

Contributors include Lowell Barrington, Manuel Becerra Ramirez, Miriam Feldblum, J. Donald Galloway, George Ginsburgs, Jonathan E. Klaaren, Marco Martiniello, Ayelet Shachar, Stephen Castles, and Gianni Zappalà.

Other books in the Comparative Citizenship series:

Citizenship Today: Global Perspectives and Practices
T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Douglas B. Klusmeyer, Editors
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2001
Citizenship Policies for an Age of Migration
T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Douglas B. Klusmeyer, Editors
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2000

Table of Contents

From Migrants to Citizens: Membership in a Changing World

Foreword, JESSICA T. MATHEWS
Introduction, DOUGLAS KLUSMEYER

PART ONE
Citizenship in Countries of Immigration, DAVID A. MARTIN

Citizenship and Immigration in Australia, GIANNI ZAPPALÀ and STEPHEN CASTLES
The Dilemmas of Canadian Citizenship Law, DONALD GALLOWAY
Between Principles and Politics: The Direction of U.S. Citizenship Policy, T. ALEXANDER ALEINIKOFF

PART TWO
Citizenship in the Aftermath of Major Political Transformations: Russia, South Africa, and the Baltic States, KATHLEEN NEWLAND
Migration in Russia and the Canons of Admittance to Russian Citizenship, GEORGE GINSBURGS
Post-Apartheid Citizenship in South Africa, JONATHAN KLAAREN
The Making of Citizenship Policy in the Baltic States, LOWELL W. BARRINGTON

PART THREE
Dual and Supranational Citizenship: Limits to Transnationalism in Mexican and European Citizenship Reforms, RAINER BAUBÖCK
Nationality in Mexico, MANUEL BECERRA RAMÍREZ
The Meaning and Scope of Citizenship of the European Union, MARCO MARTINIELLO

PART FOUR
Citizenship in Israel and Japan, ARISTIDE R. ZOLBERG
Whose Republic? Citizenship and Membership in the Israeli Polity, AYELET SHACHAR
Japanese Citizenship Policies: Legal Practices and Contemporary Developments, CHIKAKO KASHI WAZAKI

CONCLUSION
Managing Membership: New Trends in Citizenship
and Nationality Policy Making, MIRIAM FELDBLUM

Acknowledgements
About the Authors