Citizenship, borders, and human needs / edited by Rogers M. Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Rogers M., 1953-

Series:

Democracy, citizenship, and constitutionalism.

Democracy, citizenship, and constitutionalism

Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Immigrants--Economic conditions.

Immigrants.

Citizenship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (504 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From anxiety about Muslim immigrants in Western Europe to concerns about undocumented workers and cross-border security threats in the United States, disputes over immigration have proliferated and intensified in recent years. These debates are among the most contentious facing constitutional democracies, and they show little sign of fading away.Edited and with an introduction by political scientist Rogers M. Smith, Citizenship, Borders, and Human Needs brings together essays by leading international scholars from a wide range of disciplines to explore the economic, cultural, political, and normative aspects of comparative immigration policies. In the first section, contributors go beyond familiar explanations of immigration's economic effects to explore whose needs are truly helped and harmed by current migration patterns. The concerns of receiving countries include but are not limited to their economic interests, and several essays weigh different models of managing cultural identity and conflict in democracies with large immigrant populations.Other essays consider the implications of immigration for politics and citizenship. In many nations, large-scale immigration challenges existing political institutions, which must struggle to foster political inclusion and accommodate changing ways of belonging to the polity. The volume concludes with contrasting reflections on the normative standards that should guide immigration policies in modern constitutional democracies.Citizenship, Borders, and Human Needs develops connections between thoughtful scholarship and public policy, thereby advancing public debate on these complex and divisive issues. Though most attention in the collection is devoted to the dilemmas facing immigrant-receiving countries in the West, the volume also explores policies and outcomes in immigrant-sending countries, as well as the situation of developing nations-such as India-that are net receivers of migrants.

Contents:

International migration : global trends and issues / Demetrios G. Papademetriou

Rural migration and economic development with reference to Mexico and the United States / Antonio Yúnez-Naude

Global migrations and economic need / Saskia Sassen

Immigration paradox : alien workers and distributive justice / Howard F. Chang

What is an economic migrant? Europe's new borders and the politics of classification / Karolina Szmagalska-Follis

Brokering inclusion : education, language, and the immigrant middle class / Mae M. Ngai

Immigration, citizenship, and the need for integration / Christian Joppke

Engendering culture : citizenship, identity, and belonging / Leti Volpp

Three models of civic solidarity / Sarah Song

Immigration and security in the United States / Christopher Rudolph

Citizenship's new subject : the illegal immigrant voter / Kamal Sadiq

"We the people" in an age of migration : multiculturalism and immigrants' political integration in comparative perspective / Irene Bloemraad

Associational governance of ethno-religious diversity in Europe : the Dutch case / Veit Bader

When and why should liberal democracies restrict immigration? / Stephen Macedo

Expatriatism : the theory and practice of open borders / Chandran Kukathas

Citizenship and free movement / Rainer Bauböck.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781283896382

1283896389

9780812204667

0812204662

OCLC:

793012540