Immigration and the Nation-State The United States, Germany, and Great Britain [Hardcover]

This important new study compares the postwar politics of immigration control and immigrant integration in the United States, Germany, and Great Britain. Against current diagnoses of nation-states diminished by globalization and international human rights regimes and discourses, the author argues that nation-states have proved remarkably resilient, at least in the face of immigration.

1. Immigration and the Nation-State
Part 1. Embattled Entry
2. A Nation of Immigrants, Again: The United States
3. Not a Country of Immigration: Germany
4. The Zero-Immigration Country: Great Britain
Part 2. Multicultural Integration
5. `Race' Attacks the Melting Pot: The United States
6. From Postnational Membership to Citizenship: Germany
7. Between Citizenship and Race: Great Britain
8. Resilient Nation-States

Christian Joppke is Associate Professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, Florence. He is the author ofEast German Dissidents and the Revolution of 1989(1995), and the editor ofChallenge to the Nation-State(OUP, 1998), andMulticultural Questions(with Steven Lukes, OUP, forthcoming).