Naturalization policies, education and citizenship
Subtitle: multicultural and multination societies in international perspective
By: edited by Dina Kiwan, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Series: Palgrave politics of identity and citizenship series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780230303416
Subjects: Citizenship; Congresses; Study and teaching; Cross-cultural studies; Naturalization
Description: "This book has grown out of a conference held in London in July 2010-- the annual conference of the International Centre for Education for Democratic Citizenship (ICEDC), a joint international centre of Birkbeck and Institute of Education ... The theme of the conference drew on the concerns of the ESRC Seminar Series "Education for 'national' citizenship in the context of devolution and ethnic and religious conflict"--Introduction.
Notes: "This book has grown out of a conference held in London in July 2010-- the annual conference of the International Centre for Education for Democratic Citizenship (ICEDC), a joint international centre of Birkbeck and Institute of Education ... The theme of the conference drew on the concerns of the ESRC Seminar Series "Education for 'national' citizenship in the context of devolution and ethnic and religious conflict"--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Dina Kiwan; title: Learning to be "British"? : education and naturalisation in the UK / Dina Kiwan; title: State paternalism and religious dress / Cécile Laborde; title: Diversity and nationality : contemporary developments in five European citizenship regimes / Nasar Meer and Tariq Modood; title: Descent, territory, and common values : redefining citizenship in Canada / Elke Winter; title: Regional diversity and education for "national" citizenship in Ukraine : the construction of citizenship identities by borderland youth / Antonina Tereshchenko; title: Shifting youth identities and notions of "citizenship" in the Palestinian diaspora : the case of Lebanon / Kathleen Fincham; title: Conclusion / Dina Kiwan.