Kivisto / Faist Citizenship

Discourse, Theory, and Transnational Prospects
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4051-8211-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 176 Seiten, E-Book

A significant addition to the growing body of literature oncitizenship, this wide-ranging overview focuses on the importance,and changing nature, of citizenship. It introduces the varieddiscourses and theories that have arisen in recent years, and lookstoward future scholarship in the field.
* * Offers an analytical assessment of the various thematicdiscourses and provides guidance in pulling together those discretethemes into a larger, more comprehensive framework
* Identifies the four broadly conceived themes that shape themany discourses on contemporary citizenship - inclusion,erosion, withdrawal, and expansion
* Includes a thorough introduction to the subject

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kivisto, Peter

Faist, Thomas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.
2. Inclusion.
3. Erosion.
4. Withdrawal.
5. Expansion.
6. Future Trends.
References

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Kivisto is Richard Swanson Professor of Social Thoughtand Professor and Chair of Sociology at Augustana College. He isthe author of Immigrant Socialists in the United States(1984), For Democracy (1993), and Americans All(1995), and is the editor of The Ethnic Enigma (1989) andMulticulturalism in the United States (2000). Dr Kivisto isalso the editor of The Sociological Quarterly.
Thomas Faist is Professor of Transnational Relations andDevelopment Studies at the Faculty of Sociology at BielefeldUniversity. He is the author of The Volume and Dynamics ofInternational Migration and Transnational Social Spaces (2000),Transnational Social Spaces (2004), and The Politics ofDual Citizenship in Europe (2007). He currently directs aproject on transnational migration and development. He is theDeputy Editor of The Sociological Quarterly.