- Hardcover: 248 pages
- Publisher: Princeton University Press (26 Feb 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0691010145
- ISBN-13: 978-0691010144
- Product Dimensions: 24.3 x 16 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,416,672 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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[A] fascinating book. -- Stanley Hoffmann Foreign Affairs Magazine This is an important book that contributes to our understanding of why European states have found it so difficult to fully include migrants into their political communities. -- Rainer Baubock International Migration Review Negotiating Identities is a useful book for stimulating reflection on when, how, and why immigrants and states interact in ethnically diverse societies. It contains several important insights that should be reckoned with. It also opens up additional lines of inquiry into pressing concerns, and thus may prove to be an important building block for further theoretical and empirical studies of France, Germany, and beyond. -- Eric Bleich Perspectives on Politics
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Immigration is even more hotly debated in Europe than in the United States. In this pivotal work of action and discourse analysis. Riva Kastoryano draws on extensive fieldwork - including interviews with politicians, immigrant leaders, and militants - to analyze interactions between states and immigrants in France and Germany. Making frequent comparisons to the United States, she delineates the role of states in constructing group identities and measures the impact of immigrant organization and mobilization on national identity. Kastoryano argues that states contribute directly and indirectly to the elaboration of immigrants' identity, in part by articulating the grounds on which their groups are granted legitimacy Conversely, immigrant organizations demanding recognition often redefine national identity by reinforcing or modifying traditional sentiments. They use culture - national references in Germany and religion in France - to negotiate new political identities in ways that alter state composition. Despite their different histories, Kastoryano finds that Germany, France, and the United States are converging in their policies toward immigration control and integration. All three have adopted similar tactics and made similar institutional adjustments in their efforts to reconcile differences while tending national integrity. The author builds her observations into a model of "negotiations of identities" useful to a broad cross-section of social scientists and policy specialists. She extends her analysis to consider how the European Union and transnational networks affect identities still negotiated at the national level. The result is a forward-thinking book that illuminates immigration from a new angle.
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