Citizenship and nationhood in France and Germany
The difference between French and German definitions of citizenship is instructive - and, for millions of immigrants from North Africa, Turkey, and Eastern Europe, decisive. Brubaker explores this difference - between the territorial basis of the French citizenry and the German emphasis on blood descent - and shows how it translates into rights and restrictions for millions of would-be French and German citizens. Why French citizenship is territorially inclusive, and German citizenship ethnically exclusive, becomes clear in Brubaker's historical account of distinctive French and German paths to nation-statehood. Two fundamental legal principles of national citizenship emerge from this analysis, leading Brubaker to broad and original observations on the constitution of the modern state
Print Book, English, ©1992
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., ©1992
History
xii, 270 pages ; 24 cm
9780674131774, 9780674131781, 0674131770, 0674131789
25008595
Introduction : traditions of nationhood in France and Germany
[Part] I. The institution of citizenship ; Citizenship as social closure
The French revolution and the invention of national citizenship
State, state-system, and citizenship in Germany
[Part] II. Defining the citizenry : the bounds of belonging ; Citizenship and naturalization in France and Germany
Migrants into citizens : the crystallization of 'Jus Soli' in late-nineteenth-century France
The citizenry as community of descent : the nationalization of citizenship in Wilhelmine Germany
"Etre Français, Cela se Mérite" : immigration and the politics of citizenship in France in the 1980s
Continuities in the German politics of citizenship
Conclusion
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