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Record Nr.

UNINA9910494733203321

Autore

Mushaben Joyce Marie <1952->

Titolo

The changing faces of citizenship [[electronic resource] ] : integration and political mobilization among ethnic minorities in Germany / / Joyce Marie Mushaben

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, c2008

ISBN

1-84545-468-5

0-85745-038-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (362 p.)

Collana

Monographs in German history ; ; v. 21

Disciplina

305.9

305.9/069120943

323.143

Soggetti

Citizenship - Germany

Assimilation (Sociology) - Germany

Minorities - Political activity - Germany

Emigration and immigration law - Germany

Electronic books.

Germany Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [319] - 336) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Changing Faces of Citizenship; CONTENTS; TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION. EXPLAINING THE PARADIGM SHIFT IN GERMAN CITIZENSHIP LAW; CHAPTER 1. CITIZENSHIP, NATIONALITY, IDENTITY; CHAPTER 2. THE INVISIBLE MAN (AND WOMAN); CHAPTER 3. BLOOD VERSUS BIRTHPLACE; CHAPTER 4. CHANGING PLACES,TEMPORARY FACES; CHAPTER 5. LEARNING-BY-DOING; CHAPTER 6. CHICKEN OR EGG?; CHAPTER 7. MULTICULTURALISM FOR A NEW MILLENNIUM; APPENDIX. INTERVIEW PARTNERS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

In contrast to most migration studies that focus on specific "foreigner" groups in Germany, this study simultaneously compares and contrasts the legal, political, social, and economic opportunity structures facing diverse categories of the ethnic minorities who have settled in the



country since the 1950s. It reveals the contradictory, and usually self-defeating, nature of German policies intended to keep "migrants" out-allegedly in order to preserve a German Leitkultur (with which very few of its own citizens still identify). The main barriers to effective integration-and socioeconomic revital