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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Studying the Newcomers -- 3. A Matter of Numbers: Immigrant Demographics and the Electoral Process -- 4. Are the Newcomers Exceptional? The Applicability of Traditional Models to Immigrant Political Participation -- 5. From Newcomers to Settlers: Immigrant Adaptation and Political Participation -- 6. Were They Pushed? Political Threat, Institutional Mobilization, and Immigrant Voting -- 7. Beyond the Ballot Box: Nonvoting Political Behavior Across Immigrant Generations -- 8. The Future of Immigrant Political Participation: Directions in Policy and Research -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Does civics education increase political knowledge among 14-year-olds? If not, what does? As it is widely held that competent democratic citizenship requires at minimum a basic level of political knowledge, civic education for American youth has long been considered an important mission of America's schools (Dewey, 1916; Merriam, 1934; Nie et al., 1996; Niemi & Junn, 1998; Galston, 2001). Despite increases in the twentieth century in overall education levels, political knowledge of Americans, particularly young adults, remains low (Delli Carpini & Keeter, 1996). For decades, conventional wisdom among political scientists, driven by the research of Langton & Jennings (1968), was that civics education has little effect on political knowledge (Campbell 2006). In recent years, however, researchers have begun challenging this consensus, publishing studies that suggest civics education has some positive, if modest, effect on political knowledge (Niemi & Junn, 1998; Torney-Purta, 2002; Hartry & Porter (2004); Pasek et al., 2008).

The book is the fruit of five years of on-site research on citizenship in the Arab world. It takes a broader legal perspective to the multifaceted reality of nationality and citizenship. The methodology employed builds on the interdisciplinary approach of comparative legal studies, and brings in theories, concepts and insights from anthropology, political science, Arab and Islamic studies, linguistics and sociology. The work relies on a broad range of Western and Arab references, and all sources and documents were directly accessed in their original languages; this is particularly relevant for Arab legislation (all in-text reference has been translated by the author, and the original has been inserted using scientific transliteration).

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This open access book discusses how national citizenship is being transformed by economic, social and political change. It focuses on the emergence of global markets where citizenship is for sale and on how new reproduction technologies impact citizenship by descent. It also discusses the return of banishment through denationalisation of terrorist suspects, and the impact of digital technologies, such as blockchain, on the future of democratic citizenship. The book provides a wide range of views on these issues from legal scholars, political scientists, and political practitioners. It is structured as a series of four conversations in which authors respond to each other. This exchange of arguments provides unique depth to current debates about the future of citizenship.

Business-related foundations are increasingly appearing to serve the common good as financiers of political education and are also promoting innovative formats aimed at "disadvantaged young people". So far, little is known about how these foundations are intertwined with corporate interests and what understanding of maturity is the basis of their educational work. Based on critical emancipatory theories of society and education, Anja Hirsch shows how the connection with companies can affect programs of company-related foundations and how innovative formats of political youth education reproduce inequality relationships.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Introduction -- 1. Theories of Citizenship -- 2. Theories of Citizenship: Feminism and Multiculturalism -- 3. Postnational Citizenship -- 4. Political Participation -- 5. The Welfare State -- 6. Migration in Europe -- 7. European Citizenship and European Identity -- Conclusion -- References -- Index

This open access book raises crucial questions about the citizenship of the European Union. Is it a new citizenship beyond the nation-state although it is derived from Member State nationality? Who should get it? What rights and duties does it entail? Should EU citizens living in other Member States be able to vote there in national elections? If there are tensions between free movement and social rights, which should take priority? And should the European Court of Justice determine what European citizenship is about or the legislative institutions of the EU or national parliaments? This book collects a wide range of answers to these questions from legal scholars, political scientists, and political practitioners. It is structured as a series of three conversations in which authors respond to each other. This exchange of arguments provides unique depth to the debate

Switzerland likely has the most particular naturalization system in the world. Whereas in most countries citizenship attribution is regulated at the central level of the state, in Switzerland each municipality is accorded the right to decide who can become a Swiss citizen. This book aims at exploring naturalization processes from a comparative perspective and to explain why some municipalities pursue more restrictive citizenship policies than others. The Swiss case provides a unique opportunity to approach citizenship politics from new perspectives. It allows us to go beyond formal citizenship models and to account for the practice of citizenship. The analytical framework combines quantitative and qualitative data and helps us understand how negotiation processes between political actors lead to a large variety of local citizenship models. An innovative theoretical framework, integrating Bourdieu's political sociology, combines symbolic and material aspects of naturalizations and underlines the production processes of ethnicity.

Vols. 4-38, 40-41 include Record of political events, Oct. 1, 1888-Dec. 31, 1925 (issued as a separately paged supplement to no. 3 of v. 31-38 and to no. 1 of v. 40) ; Microfilm. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Issued by the Academy of Political Science in the City of New York, 1909- ; by the Academy of Political Science, Edited by the Faculty of Political Science of Columbia University ; Vols. 1-15, 1886-1900. 1 v; Vols. 1-30, 1886-1915. 1 v.; Vols. 1-45, 1886-1930. 1 v.; Vols. 46-65, 1931-50. 1 v ; NEWS; MICROFILM 21252: See call no. H1 P8 for MAIN holdings on paper for this title. ; MAIN; AQ P66: Includes reprint editions when original not available ; SCP weekly serials 2007/2008. ; UPD

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps and Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The New Hispanic Immigration -- I. Setting The Context -- 1. Intimate Strangers: Immigration to Queens -- 2. Participation in the American Polity: Why Citizenship Matters -- 3. Explaining Participation: Why It Takes So Long to Become a Citizen -- II. The Costs Of Choosing -- 4. Resistance from Outside: Machine Politics and the (Non) Incorporation of Immigrants -- 5. Resistance from Within: The Myth of Return and the Community of Memory -- III. Liminal Politics -- 6. In-between Identities: Race and Ethnicity in the American Context -- 7. The Politics of In-between: Avoiding Irreconcilable Demands, Keeping Loyalties -- IV. Breaking The Impasse -- 8. Wanting It Both Ways: The Quest for Dual Citizenship -- 9. Wanting In: Latin American Immigrant Women and the Turn to Electoral Politics -- V. Conclusion: The New Americans -- 10. Liminality and Democratic Citizenship -- Appendix: Methodology and Interview Sample -- References -- Index

How do migrant youth manage to become political subjects and defend their rights? How is it possible to oppose domination and to what extent does democracy provide a reference point? Helge Schwiertz explores these questions by developing a radical-democratic theory and combining it with a qualitative study on the self-organization of migrant youth in Germany and the USA. Through the dialogue between empiricism and theory, he thus contributes to a differentiated understanding of migrant struggles as well as debates on democratic theory and shows how borders can be democratized.

Since 1963, when the African integration project was born, regional Economic Communities (RECs) have been an indispensable part of the continent's deeper socioeconomic and political integration. More than half a century later, such regional institutions continue to evolve, keeping pace with an Africa that is transforming itself amid challenges and opportunities. RECs represent a huge potential to be the engines that drive the continent's economic growth and development as well as being vehicles through which a sense of a continental community is fostered. It is critical therefore that citizens understand the multi-faceted and bureaucratic operations of regional institutions in order to use them to advance their collective interests.