Citizenship Debates: A Reader
By (Author) Gershon Shafir
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
14th April 1998
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Civics and citizenship
Migration, immigration and emigration
Welfare and benefit systems
323.6
Paperback
328
Width 149mm, Height 229mm, Spine 20mm
Beyond its emotional resonance and cultural ramifications, citizenship provides the legal and social framework for individual autonomy and political democracy. Recently, the question of citizenship has gained renewed attention in response to major trends worldwide - welfare entitlement cuts, democratization in Eastern Europe, a rise in ethnic and national conflict, and an increase in global migration. In this multidisciplinary volume, scholars from sociology, political theory, philosophy, anthropology, and history offer key analyses of the multiple debates surrounding these changes while interrogating traditional views of citizenship.