Comparative Citizenship: A Restrictive Turn in Europe?
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Christian Joppke
In the rapidly growing literature on comparative citizenship, a dominant assumption is that the nationality laws in Western states are converging on liberal norms of equality and inclusiveness. However, especially since the onset of the new millennium and an apparent failure of integrating Muslim immigrants there has been a remarkable counter-trend toward more restrictiveness. This paper reviews the causes and features of restrictiveness in the heartland of previous liberalization, north-west Europe. It is argued that even where it seems to be strongest: with respect to the rules of naturalization, the restrictive trend is embedded within an overall liberal, sometimes even liberalizing framework. The notion of a wholesale “restrictive turn in Europe” therefore has to be rejected.
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- Foreword
- Democracy, Demography, and Sovereignty
- Benhabib on Democratic Iterations in a Global Order
- Liberal Laws V. the Law of Large Numbers, or How Demographic Rhetoric Arouses Anxiety (in Germany)
- Demography, Human Rights, and Diversity Management, American-Style
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- Immigration Policy: Between Demographic Considerations and Preservation of Culture
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Article
- Foreword
- Democracy, Demography, and Sovereignty
- Benhabib on Democratic Iterations in a Global Order
- Liberal Laws V. the Law of Large Numbers, or How Demographic Rhetoric Arouses Anxiety (in Germany)
- Demography, Human Rights, and Diversity Management, American-Style
- Comparative Citizenship: A Restrictive Turn in Europe?
- Comparative Citizenship: A Restrictive Turn in Europe and a Restrictive Regime in Israel: Response to Joppke
- A Feminist Perspective on Natality Policies in Multicultural Societies
- The Blessing of Departure: Acceptable and Unacceptable State Support for Demographic Transformation: The Lieberman Plan to Exchange Populated Territories in Cisjordan
- Redrawing Maps, Manipulating Demographics: On Exchange of Populated Territories and Self-Determination
- A Different Departure: A Reply to Shany's "Redrawing Maps, Manipulating Demographics: On Exchange of Populated Territories and Self-Determination"
- Nationalist Priorities and Restrictions in Immigration: The Case of Israel
- Notes on the Value of Theory: Readings in the Law of Return-A Polemic
- Immigration Policy: Between Demographic Considerations and Preservation of Culture
- Immigration Rights and the Demographic Consideration
- Citizenship and Its Erosion: Transfer of Populated Territory and Oath of Allegiance in the Prism of Israeli Constitutional Law
