Citizenship acquisition and national belonging : migration, membership and the liberal democratic state /
"Invoked by politicians, promoted in policy, and sought by migrants, citizenship is a crucial marker of what makes being a member of society valuable, and of what membership entails in a world of fluid boundaries. This volume explores questions of admission to the state and to citizenship, the...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
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| Series: | Migration, minorities, and citizenship.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : 'border crossings' : the dimensions of membership / Phillip Cole
- On membership and free movement / Tiziana Torresi
- The American fence : liberal political theory and the immorality of membership / Phillip Cole
- Resident aliens, non-resident citizens and voting rights : towards a pluralist theory of transnational political equality and modes of political belonging / David Owen
- Becoming citizens : naturalization in the liberal state / James Hampshire
- Republican requirements for access to citizenship / Iseult Honohan
- Linguistic competence and citizenship acquisition / Andrew Shorten
- What is 'Britishness', and is it important? / Rosemary Sales
- Introducing the majority to ethnicity : do they like what they see? / Steve Fenton and Robin Mann
- Conclusion : practice and policy / Gideon Calder and Jonathan Seglow.