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

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 w...

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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2002]
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Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (290 p.)
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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