Integration and New Limits on Citizenship Rights: Denmark and Beyond [Hardcover]

Integration and New Limits on Citizenship Rights is a state-centered analysis of citizenship, immigration and social identity. It explores the increasing role of nation states as critical actors in using social policy to affect the social location of immigrants and ethnics and also to redefine what it means to be a full citizen.1. The Context and Setting 2. Theorizing Citizenship and National Identity 3. The Manufacturing of and Making Claims to Danishness 4. The Integration Act and Manufactured Danishness 5. Assimilation and Intermarriage 6. Conclusion and Broader Implications: Where Do We (They) Go From Here?

A core argument of the book is that Danish state policies manufactures Danishness. & The book includes a large number of theoretical perspectives contributions & . The value of the book is that it is one of the few books in English by a foreigner with an intimate knowledge of Denmark that gives a comprehensive and critical analysis of the cultural and state-centred constructions of ethnic identity and citizenship rights in a country with a strong climate of anti-immigration. (Peter Gundelach, Ethnic and Racial Studies, May, 2016)

Through rigorous empirical and theoretical analysis, Stokes-DuPass provides insightful ways of understanding how Danish citizenship and identity formation exclude migrants with non-European backgrounds. Stokes-DuPass rightly argues that the nation-state continues to be an important locus of power in structuring and regulating the unequal relationships between ethnic Danes and naturalized Danes. This is a critical and timely contribution to the study of citizenship in Scandinavia that is tormented by explicit anti-immigration forces. Stokes-DuPass has written an original and knowledgeable book and has made a significant contribution to the field of Nordic migration and citizenship studies. - Barzoo Eliassi, Senior Lecturer, Linnaeus University and Research Associate at Oxford University and the Centre forl³’