Citizenship acquisition and national belonging
Subtitle: migration, membership and the liberal democratic state
By: edited by Gideon Calder, Phillip Cole and Jonathan Seglow
Series: Migration, minorities, and citizenship
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780230203198
Description: "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 justifiability of criteria and the impact of exclusions"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : 'border crossings' : the dimensions of membership / Phillip Cole; title: On membership and free movement / Tiziana Torresi; title: The American fence : liberal political theory and the immorality of membership / Phillip Cole; title: Resident aliens, non-resident citizens and voting rights : towards a pluralist theory of transnational political equality and modes of political belonging / David Owen; title: Becoming citizens : naturalization in the liberal state / James Hampshire; title: Republican requirements for access to citizenship / Iseult Honohan; title: Linguistic competence and citizenship acquisition / Andrew Shorten; title: What is 'Britishness', and is it important? / Rosemary Sales; title: Introducing the majority to ethnicity : do they like what they see? / Steve Fenton and Robin Mann; title: Conclusion : practice and policy / Gideon Calder and Jonathan Seglow.