Challenging ethnic citizenship : German and Israeli perspectives on immigration

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Challenging ethnic citizenship : German and Israeli perspectives on immigration

edited by Daniel Levy and Yfaat Weiss

Berghahn Books, 2002

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Based on an international conference "Citizenship and Identity: German and Israeli Perspectives" held at Haifa University in March 2000

Includes bibliographical references and index

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In contrast to most other countries, both Germany and Israel have descent-based concepts of nationhood and have granted members of their nation (ethnic Germans and Jews) who wish to immigrate automatic access to their respective citizenship privileges. Therefore these two countries lend themselves well to comparative analysis of the integration process of immigrant groups, who are formally part of the collective "self" but increasingly transformed into "others." The book examines the integration of these 'privileged' immigrants in relation to the experiences of other minority groups (e.g. labor migrants, Palestinians). This volume offers rich empirical and theoretical material involving historical developments, demographic changes, sociological problems, anthropological insights, and political implications. Focusing on the three dimensions of citizenship: sovereignty and control, the allocation of social and political rights, and questions of national self-understanding, the essays bring to light the elements that are distinctive for either society but also point to similarities that owe as much to nation-specific characteristics as to evolving patterns of global migration.

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Acknowledgements Introduction: Changing Configurations of German and Israeli Immigration Regimes: A Comparative Perspective Daniel Levy PART I: CITIZENSHIP AND MIGRATION Chapter 1. Ethnos or Demos? Migration and Citizenship in Germany Rainer Munz Chapter 2. From Haven to Heaven: Changing Patterns of Immigration to Israel Yinon Cohen PART II: CITIZENSHIP AND NATURALIZATION Chapter 3. An Institution of Potential Exclusion: German Citizenship and Naturalization Practices (1815-1949) and the Politics of the 1913 Citizenship Law Dieter Gosewinkel Chapter 4. Citizenship and Migration: The Debate Surrounding Dual Citizenship in German Ralf Fucks Chapter 5. The Golem and Its Creator or How the Jewish Nation State Became Multi-ethnic Yfaat Weiss PART III: MINORITIES AND INCORPORATION REGIMES Chapter 6. German Citizenship Policy and Sinti Identity Politics Gilad Margalit Chapter 7. Beyond "Second-Generation": Rethinking the Place of Migrant Youth Culture in Berlin Levent Soysal Chapter 8. Migration Regimes and Social Rights: Migrant Workers in the Israeli Welfare State Zeev Rosenhek Chapter 9. Ethnicity and Citizenship in the Perception of Russian Israelis Dimitry Shumsky PART IV: CITIZENSHIP AND IDENTITY Chapter 10. Nationalism, Identity and Citizenship: An Epilogue to the Yehoshua-Shammas Debate Baruch Kimmerling Chapter 11. The Future of Arab Citizenship in Israel: Jewish-Zionist Time in a Place with No Palestinian Memory Hassan Jabareen Chapter 12. The Transformation of Germany's Ethno-cultural Idiom: the Case of Ethnic German Immigrants Daniel Levy PART V: REVISITING CITIZENSHIP AND IDENTITY: THE JEWISH EXPERIENCE Chapter 13. The Jewish Challenges in the New Europe Diana Pinto Chapter 14. From Citizen Warrior to Citizen Shopper and Back: New Modes of Cosmopolitan Citizenship Natan Sznaider Afterword: Outlook(s): Citizenship in the Global Era Daniel Levy and Yfaat Weiss Notes on Contributors Index

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