Migration and Citizenship: Legal Status, Rights and Political Participation

As Europe struggles to integrate growing numbers of immigrants into society, citizenship is frequently held out as both a goal of and a tool for promoting that integration. But by studying the issue from the perspective of migration, Migration and Citizenship makes clear that citizenship carries imp...

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Other Authors: Bauböck, Rainer (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press [2006]
Series:IMISCOE Reports
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Summary:As Europe struggles to integrate growing numbers of immigrants into society, citizenship is frequently held out as both a goal of and a tool for promoting that integration. But by studying the issue from the perspective of migration, Migration and Citizenship makes clear that citizenship carries important legal and political status that goes beyond such efforts at social integration. Highlighting the ways in which the difference in legal status that citizenship confers enables governments to set boundaries between citizens and non-citizens in terms of rights and political participation, this volume summarizes current theories and research
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Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9789048504268
DOI:10.1515/9789048504268

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