Rights Across Borders: Immigration and the Decline of Citizenship - Softcover

Jacobson, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801857708 ISBN 13: 9780801857706

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997

Synopsis

How citizenship has been increasingly devalued as governments extend rights to foreign populations and how, in turn, international human rights law has overshadowed traditional definitions of sovereignty.

In Rights across Borders, political sociologist David Jacobson argues that transnational migrations have affected ideas of citizenship and the state since World War II. Jacobson shows how citizenship has been increasingly devalued as governments extend rights to foreign populations and how, in turn, international human rights law has overshadowed traditional definitions of sovereignty. Examining illegal immigration in the United States and migrant and foreign populations in Western Europe, with a special focus on Germany and France, Jacobson shows how the differing political cultures of these countries―the ethnic basis of citizenship in Germany versus its political basis in the United States, for instance―have shaped both domestic and international politics.

About this title

About the Author

David Jacobson is a professor of sociology at the University of South Florida and the founding director of the Citizenship Initiative. He is author of Rights across Borders: Immigration and the Decline of Citizenship and Place and Belonging in America, both published by Johns Hopkins.

Edition details

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801857708
• ISBN 13: 9780801857706
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200