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German Multiculturalism Immigrant Integration and the Transformation of Citizenship
Brett Klopp
Book Code: C7627
ISBN: 0-275-97627-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97627-9
248 pages, photo, tables
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 10/30/2002
List Price: $99.95 (UK Sterling Price: £57.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • At a time when Europe's borders are ever more porous, Klopp's attention to the challenges of immigration and citizenship is welcome. Klopp offers a richly detailed account of the immigrant experience in a single metropolitan area--Frankfurt, Germany--and thus makes a valuable contribution to the literature on multiculturalism....a worthy read for those with interests in the normative and policy dilemmas of Europe's changing demographics. Highly recommended. Graduate collections and beyond.
    —Choice     September 2003
  • Klopp makes an important and progressive contribution to the migration and citizenship literatures ... This volume will most certainly inspire those scholars who appreciate the importance of empirical work in the fields of political science, sociology, and anthropology, not to mention those who would like to bring a new critical approach to bear on theories of migration and citizenship.
    —Ethnic and Racial Studies     March 2005
Description: Migration, asylum, and citizenship have become unavoidable topics in contemporary European politics. Klopp examines the issues of immigration, integration, and multiculturalism in Germany, Europe's premier immigration country, through the perspectives of both immigrants and local institutions (unions, employers, schools, neighborhoods, and city government). Klopp addresses the potential for immigration patterns and increasing heterogeneity to produce the conditions for social transformation, and specifically he shows how these factors are challenging and gradually transforming the boundaries of citizenship and the nation in Germany. Theoretically he argues against recent models of postnational and transnational membership that claim that the nationstate model of citizenship has been superseded by a new type of membership, one that guarantees individual rights via international human rights norms. Given the claims of these models, we should expect that long-term resident aliens will be satisfied with the partial citizenshp rights (civil and social) extended to them by liberal European welfare states, and that they will not identify with, or seek political rights from, their state of residence. On the contrary, Klopps suggests that national-state citizenship remains the essential form of formal social and political inclusion for the majority of immigrants. In the past Germany has represented an extreme case of ethnocultural exclusion, and it is therefore something of a natural laboratory in which to examine the reciprocal measures and mechanisms of political and social change currently underway in Europe. Lessons learned from qualitative empirical examination of immigration and integration processes in Germany could prove instructive when compared to similar processes of transformation underway in the other tranditonal nation-states of Western Europe and in the efforts to define a common European identity. Provocative reading for scholars, students, and other researchers as well as policy makers involved with migration issues, comparative politics and citizenship, and contemporary German studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Conceptualizing the Integration of Immigrants in Europe: Integration as Multiculturalism at the Local Level
  • German Immigration History and National Citizenship Policy
  • Working Together: The Shifting Socioeconomic Context of Foreigner Integration
  • Living and Learning Together: Integration and Identity Recognition in the Schools
  • Living Together?: Housing Segregation and the Frankfurter Vertrag
  • Representation and Political Incorporation in a Multicultural City
  • Conclusions to a Never-Ending Story: Integration and Political Incorporation
  • Appendix: German Trade Union Federation Member Unions (1999)
  • References
  • Index
LC Card Number: 2002025348
LCC Class: JV8020
Dewey Class: 305
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