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Sprawl, Justice, and Citizenship
Oxford University Press, USA 2010; US$ 18.99Must the strip mall and the eight-lane highway define 21st century American life? That is a central question posed by critics of suburban and exurban living in America. Yet despite the ubiquity of the critique, it never sticks--Americans by the scores of millions have willingly moved into sprawling developments over the past few decades. Americans... more...
From Open Door to Dutch Door
ABC-CLIO 1987; US$ 31.95Most policy books confine their historical discussions to a relatively short time frame. This book offers a long-term historical analysis of American immigration policy. From Open Door to Dutch Door details current policy and its shortcomings. In addition, the book describes the four distinct phases of U.S. immigration policy since 1820, why these... more...
Immigration and Citizenship in Japan
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 64.00This book investigates democratic inclusion in Japan, the only advanced industrial democracy with a fourth-generation immigrant problem. more...
What Would Martin Say?
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99On April 4, 1968, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, depriving the world of one of the greatest moral authorities of the twentieth century. He was thirty-nine. King had achieved so much at such a young age that it is hard to believe that he has been gone longer than the... more...
Divided World
University of Minnesota Press 2010; US$ 60.00Taking a critical view of a venerated international principle, Randall Williams shows how the concept of human rightsoften taken for granted as a force for good in the worldcorresponds directly with U.S. imperialist aims. Citing internationalists from W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon to, more recently, M. Jacqui Alexander and China Miéville,... more...
Globalizing Citizens
Zed Books 2010; US$ 35.95Globalizing Citizens presents expert analysis from cities and villages in India, South Africa, Nigeria, the Philippines, Kenya, the Gambia and Brazil to explore how forms of global authority shape and build new meanings and practices of citizenship, across local, national and global arenas. more...
The Ironies of Citizenship
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 26.00What causes some countries to naturalize large numbers of foreigners, while others keep them at arm's length? more...
Citizenship and Indigenous Australians
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 39.00Leading commentators from a range of disciplines consider the history and future of indigenous rights. more...
Civic Integration and Modern Citizenship
Europa Law Publishing 2009; US$ 76.00In this study the experience in the Netherlands with civic integration policies will be explained in a detailed and systematic way. In addition, the Dutch model of civic integration will be set against alternative national integration strategies as prevailing in some other immigrant receiving countries, particularly Belgium, Canada and the United States. more...
As French as Everyone Else?
Temple University Press 2011; US$ 24.95France is often depicted as the model of assimilationist or republican integration in the international literature on immigration. However, rarely have surveys drilled down to provide individual responses from a double representative sample. In As French as Everyone Else? , Sylvain Brouard and Vincent Tiberj provide a comprehensive assessment of... more...









