Citizenship and Migration: Globalization and the Politics of Belonging [Paperback]

Stephen Castles (Editor), Alastair Davidson (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0415927145 | ISBN-13: 978-0415927147 | Publication Date: February 2000 | Edition: 1

Linking key debates about citizenship with discussions about migration and ethnicity, "Citizenship and Migration" examines the new challenges globalization is creating throughout the world. As boundaries are being blurred and nation-state powers eroded, millions of people have multiple citizenship and millions more lack citizenship of their country of residence. Increasing numbers of citizens do not "belong," thus undermining the national state as the central site of democracy. Particularly attentive to the impact of globalization on the conventional, legal definitions of citizenship, this study also recognizes that global integration has unleashed strong forces of multiculturalism.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Extending the meaning of citizenship well beyond its primary significance as a legal status, this ambitious work examines the diverse ways in which contemporary societies incorporate immigrants as new members, provides a critical discussion of their shortcomings in relation to democratic ideals, and suggests how matters might be improved in the face of ongoing migratory realities. --Aristide R. Zolberg, International Migration Review.
instructive and refreshing.
–journal of multilingual and multicultural development, vol. 23:5, 2002 --This text refers to the Library Binding edition.

About the Author

Stephen Castles is Professor and Director of the Centre for Multicultural Studies at the University of Wollongong, Australia and the author of The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World. Alastair Davidson is Professor of Politics at Monash and Inaugural Professor of Citizenship Studies, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. He is currently a Professorial Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, New Jersey.

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (February 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415927145
• ISBN-13: 978-0415927147
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #866,111 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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