Limits of Citizenship: Migrants and Postnational Membership in Europe
Description
In many Western countries, rights that once belonged solely to citizens are being extended to immigrants, a trend that challenges the nature and basis of citizenship at a time when nation-states are fortifying their boundaries through restirictive border controls and expressions of nationalist ideologies. In this book, Yasemin Soysal compares the different ways European nations incorporate immigrants, how these policies evolved, and how they are influenced by international human rights discourse.Soysal focuses on postwar international migration, paying particular attention to "guestwor...
ISBN(s)
0226768422, 9780226768427