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This volume collects recent research by some of the world's leading figures in the fast-growing area of immigration studies. Relating the study of immigration to other, wider processes of social change, the book focuses on two key areas in which nation-states are being challenged by this phenomenon: ...

This volume collects recent research by some of the world's leading figures in the fast-growing area of immigration studies. Relating the study of immigration to other, wider processes of social change, the book focuses on two key areas in which nation-states are being challenged by this phenomenon: sovereignty and citizenship. Separate clusters of scholarship have evolved around both areas, and this work attempts to unite these camps, sorting out the many contrasting views on the influences of immigration upon the state's authority and integrity. Focusing on the issue of sovereignty in the first section, and then on citizenship in the second, this compelling new study seeks to clarify the central stakes and opposing positions in this debate.

This study of exemplary writings from the debates over the ratification of the 1787 Constitution deals with the American constitutional founders' understandings of citizenship and civic virtue. Discussion of these debates is set in an analytical and historical context, addressing the rationales for ...

This study of exemplary writings from the debates over the ratification of the 1787 Constitution deals with the American constitutional founders' understandings of citizenship and civic virtue. Discussion of these debates is set in an analytical and historical context, addressing the rationales for and the nature of civic allegiance in liberal political regimes. Sinopoli analyzes the development of a distinctly liberal political psychology from its origins in John Locke, Adam Smith, and David Hume through the American founding and traces its implications for the current American polity.

A searching examination of what citizen competence is, how much it exists in the United States today, and what can be done to increase it.

Bringing together new work from many of the leading experts on democratic citizenship, this volume presents both normative argument and empirical analysis to help ...

A searching examination of what citizen competence is, how much it exists in the United States today, and what can be done to increase it.

Bringing together new work from many of the leading experts on democratic citizenship, this volume presents both normative argument and empirical analysis to help deepen our understanding of the various competences that citizens require if there is to be a flourishing democratic political order in our present age.

The essays explore the following themes: (1) the essential components of democratic citizenship and how these can be fostered; (2) the state of citizen competence in various democratic regimes; (3) civil society as a crucial site for the exercise and development of democratic citizenship; (4) new findings that show democratic citizens to have more political information and behave more rationally than hitherto supposed; and (5) the theory and practice of new institutional forms for democratic deliberation and democratic control.

The final section of the book explores new and revitalized forms of democratic participation as well as the kind of participation that is likely to foster a wide variety of citizen competences. The discussion runs from what we know and can expect from town meetings, to the value of public work in fostering a democratic citizenry, to entirely new forms for expressing citizen judgment.

Immigration is one of the critical issues of our time. In Citizens, Strangers, & In-Betweens, an integrated series of thirteen essays, Peter Schuck analyzes the complex social forces that have been unleashed by unprecedented legal & illegal migration to the United States & that have reshaped ...

Immigration is one of the critical issues of our time. In Citizens, Strangers, & In-Betweens, an integrated series of thirteen essays, Peter Schuck analyzes the complex social forces that have been unleashed by unprecedented legal & illegal migration to the United States & that have reshaped American society in countless ways. Schuck first presents the demographic, political, economic, legal, & cultural contexts in which these transformations are occurring. He then shows how the courts, Congress, & the states are responding to the tensions created by recent immigration. Exploring the nature of U.S. citizenship, he challenges traditional ways of defining the national community, addressing the controversial topics of citizenship for illegal alien children, the devaluation & revaluation of citizenship, & dual citizenship. In his final section, Schuck focuses on four vital & explosive policy issues: immigration's effects on the civil rights movement, the cultural differences of various American ethnic groups as revealed in their experiences as immigrants throughout the world, the protection of refugees fleeing persecution, & immigration's effects on American society in recent years.