Challenging Ethnic Citizenship : : German and Israeli Perspectives on Immigration / / ed. by Daniel Levy, Yfaat Weiss.

• MitwirkendeR: Cohen, Yinon,; Fücks, Ralf,; Gosewinkel, Dieter,; Jabareen, Hassan,; Kimmerling, Baruch,; Levy, Daniel,; Margalit, Gilad,; Münz, Rainer,; Pinto, Diana,; Rosenhek, Zeev,; Shumsky, Dimitry,; Soysal, Levent,; Sznaider, Natan,; Weiss, Yfaat,
• HerausgeberIn: Levy, Daniel,; Weiss, Yfaat,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (290 p.)

In contrast to most other countries, both Germany and Israel have descent-based concepts of nationhood and have granted members of their nation (ethnic Germans and Jews) who wish to immigrate automatic access to their respective citizenship privileges. Therefore these two countries lend themselves well to comparative analysis of the integration process of immigrant groups, who are formally part of the collective "self" but increasingly transformed into "others." The book examines the integration of these 'privileged' immigrants in relation to the experiences of other minority groups (e.g. labor migrants, Palestinians). This volume offers rich empirical and theoretical material involving historical developments, demographic changes, sociological problems, anthropological insights, and political implications. Focusing on the three dimensions of citizenship: sovereignty and control, the allocation of social and political rights, and questions of national self-understanding, the essays bring to light the elements that are distinctive for either society but also point to similarities that owe as much to nation-specific characteristics as to evolving patterns of global migration.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: Changing Configurations of German and Israeli Immigration Regimes—a Comparative Perspective -- PART ONE. CITIZENSHIP AND MIGRATION -- Chapter 1. ETHNOS OR DEMOS? -- Chapter 2. FROM HAVEN TO HEAVEN -- PART TWO. CITIZENSHIP AND NATURALIZATION -- Chapter 3. CITIZENSHIP AND NATURALIZATION POLITICS IN GERMANY IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES -- Chapter 4. REFORM OF THE CITIZENSHIP LAW -- Chapter 5. THE GOLEM AND ITS CREATOR, OR HOW THE JEWISH NATION-STATE BECAME MULTIETHNIC -- PART THREE. MINORITIES AND INCORPORATION REGIMES -- Chapter 6. GERMAN CITIZENSHIP POLICY AND SINTI IDENTITY POLITICS -- Chapter 7. BEYOND THE “SECOND GENERATION” -- Chapter 8. MIGRATION REGIMES AND SOCIAL RIGHTS -- Chapter 9. ETHNICITY AND CITIZENSHIP IN THE PERCEPTION OF RUSSIAN ISRAELIS -- PART FOUR. CITIZENSHIP AND IDENTITY -- Chapter 10. NATIONALISM, IDENTITY, AND CITIZENSHIP -- Chapter 11. THE FUTURE OF ARAB CITIZENSHIP IN ISRAEL -- Chapter 12. THE TRANSFORMATION OF GERMANY’S ETHNO-CULTURAL IDIOM -- PART FIVE. REVISITING CITIZENSHIP AND IDENTITY: THE JEWISH EXPERIENCE -- Chapter 13. THE JEWISH CHALLENGES IN THE NEW EUROPE -- Chapter 14. FROM CITIZEN WARRIOR TO CITIZEN SHOPPER AND BACK -- AFTERWORD: Outlook(s)—Citizenship in the Global Era -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX