Extending Citizenship, Reconfiguring States - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0847691276 ISBN 13: 9780847691272

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999

Synopsis

Citizenship has come under intense discussion recently because of threats to welfare and shifting immigration policies. The European Union has opened transnational citizenship rights and fledgling democracies throughout the world are struggling to establish their own versions of citizenship.

Extending Citizenship, Reconfiguring States connects all these current discussions and places them in historical perspective. The book presents a thematically unified analysis of changing citizenship practices over two centuries―from the eve of the French Revolution to contemporary China. Showing how rights emerge with the appearance of new social groups and the reconfiguration of states, the authors identify conditions under which rights and citizenship expand as new groups develop within consolidated states as well as how rights and citizenship emerge within fragmented states with cross-cutting legal jurisdictions.

About this title

About the Author

Michael Hanagan is adjunct professor at the New School for Social Research.

Charles Tilly is Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University.

Review

A collection of very good articles, well edited by two outstanding scholars. (Contemporary Sociology)

An important attempt at reminding us that citizenship cannot be taken for granted as an inbuilt feature of nation-states. Comprehensive bibliography is provided at the end of this informative collection. (Ethnic and Racial Studies)

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0847691276
• ISBN 13: 9780847691272
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Hanagan Michael