Citizenship and Exclusion FROM THE PUBLISHER
Citizenship implies exclusion of non-members. In a world of gross inequalities, poverty and forced migration citizenship in rich and safe Northern states increasingly is a privilege and the exclusion of billions of desperately poor and uprooted is a moral scandal. In Citizenship and Exclusion distinguished moral and political philosophers, historians, sociologists, anthropologists and political scientists from America, Australia and Europe try to understand these complex problems in a comparative and interdisciplinary way. They criticize existing institutions and policies and look for alternatives more in line with principles and constitutions of liberal democratic welfare states, like permissive refugee and asylum policies, fair immigration policies, easy naturalization, and multiethnic and transnational concepts and practices of citizenship.
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Nine papers from an April 1996 colloquium held in Amsterdam address moral, political, historical, social, and legal aspects of the exclusion of certain people from citizenship in industrialized countries. The contributors discuss state policies concerning immigration, refugees, asylum, naturalization, and the incorporation of newcomers and indigenous people. Some contributors offer schemes for long-term, internationally coordinated migration and incorporation policies. Western European countries, Canada, and Australia receive particular attention. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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