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- catalog abstract ""This book surveys a new trend in immigration studies: the turn away from multicultural and postnational perspectives toward a renewed emphasis on assimilation and citizenship. Most scholarship in the past decade, enticed by the discovery of "globalization" has argued that multiculturalism has replaced assimilation as the dominant mode of immigrant integration and that "postnational" or "transnational" identities and allegiances have devalued or even rendered obselete traditional citizenship. This volume challenges the orthodoxy in two directions, one discussing changing state policies, the other discussing migrant practices and adjustments. With respect to state policies, the book argues that citizenship has remained the dominant membership category in liberal nation-states. Moreover, the scope of multicultural policies has either been exaggerated in public and academic perception, or - where such policies were once in place - there has recently been a covert or overt move away from them. With respect to migrant practices and adjustments, the book argues that migrants are simultaneously assimilating and transnationalizing."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12757995.
- catalog contributor b12757996.
- catalog coverage "Europe, Western Emigration and immigration Government policy.".
- catalog coverage "United States Emigration and immigration Government policy.".
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""This book surveys a new trend in immigration studies: the turn away from multicultural and postnational perspectives toward a renewed emphasis on assimilation and citizenship. Most scholarship in the past decade, enticed by the discovery of "globalization" has argued that multiculturalism has replaced assimilation as the dominant mode of immigrant integration and that "postnational" or "transnational" identities and allegiances have devalued or even rendered obselete traditional citizenship. This volume challenges the orthodoxy in two directions, one discussing changing state policies, the other discussing migrant practices and adjustments. With respect to state policies, the book argues that citizenship has remained the dominant membership category in liberal nation-states. Moreover, the scope of multicultural policies has either been exaggerated in public and academic perception, or - where such policies were once in place - there has recently been a covert or overt move away from them. With respect to migrant practices and adjustments, the book argues that migrants are simultaneously assimilating and transnationalizing."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "ix, 243 p. :".
- catalog identifier "140390491X".
- catalog isPartOf "Migration, minorities, and citizenship".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Palgrave Macmillan,".
- catalog spatial "Europe, Western Emigration and immigration Government policy.".
- catalog spatial "Europe, Western.".
- catalog spatial "United States Emigration and immigration Government policy.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "305.9/0691 21".
- catalog subject "Citizenship Europe, Western.".
- catalog subject "Citizenship United States.".
- catalog subject "Immigrants Cultural assimilation.".
- catalog subject "JV6342 .T68 2003".
- catalog subject "Transnationalism.".
- catalog title "Toward assimilation and citizenship : immigrants in liberal nation-states / edited by Christian Joppke and Ewa Morawska.".
- catalog type "text".