Douglas Klusmeyer

Bio: Douglas Klusmeyer is an academic researcher from American University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Citizenship & Genocide. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 14 publications receiving 597 citations. Previous affiliations of Douglas Klusmeyer include Migration Policy Institute.

Citizenship Today: Global Perspectives and Practices

Abstract: The forms, policies, and practices of citizenship are changing rapidly around the globe, and the meaning of these changes is the subject of deep dispute. Citizenship Today brings together leading experts in their field to define the core issues at stake in the citizenship debates. The first section investigates central trends in national citizenship policy that govern access to citizenship, the rights of aliens, and plural nationality. The following section explores how forms of citizenship and their practice are, can, and should be located within broader institutional structures. The third section examines different conceptions of citizenship as developed in the official policies of governments, the scholarly literature, and the practice of immigrants and the final part looks at the future for citizenship policy. Contributors include Rainer Baubock (Austrian Academy of Sciences), Linda Bosniak (Rutgers University School of Law, Camden), Francis Mading Deng (Brookings Institute), Adrian Favell (University of Sussex, UK), Richard Thompson Ford (Stanford University), Vicki C. Jackson (Georgetown University Law Center), Paul Johnston (Citizenship Project), Christian Joppke (European University Institute, Florence), Karen Knop (University of Toronto), Micheline Labelle (Universite du Quebec a Montreal), Daniel Salee (Concordia University, Montreal), and Patrick Weil (University of Paris 1, Sorbonne)

Citizenship Policies for an Age of Migration

Abstract: Many liberal democracies, facing high levels of immigration, are rethinking their citizenship policies In this book, a group of international experts discuss various ways liberal states should fashion their policies to better accommodate newcomers They offer detailed recommendations on issues of acquisition of citizenship, dual nationality, and the political, social, and economic rights of immigrants Contributors include Patrick Weil (University of Paris Sorbonne), David A Martin, (University of Virginia School of Law), Rainer Baubock, (Austrian Academy of Sciences), and Michael Fix (Urban Institute)

From Migrants to Citizens: Membership in a Changing World

Abstract: Citizenship policies are changing rapidly in the face of global migration trends and the inevitable ethnic and racial diversity that follows The debates are fierce What should the requirements of citizenship be? How can multi-ethnic states forge a collective identity around a common set of values, beliefs and practices? What are appropriate criteria for admission and rights and duties of citizens? This book includes nine case studies that investigate immigration and citizenship in Australia, the Baltic States, Canada, the European Union, Israel, Mexico, Russia, South Africa and the United States This complete collection of essays scrutinizes the concrete rules and policies by which states administer citizenship, and highlights similarities and differences in their policies From Migrants to Citizens , the only comprehensive guide to citizenship policies in these liberal-democratic and emerging states, will be an invaluable reference for scholars in law, political science, and citizenship theory Policymakers and government officials involved in managing citizenship policy in the United States and abroad will find this an excellent, accessible overview of the critical dilemmas that multi-ethnic societies face as a result of migration and global interdependencies at the end of the twentieth century

Immigration Policy in the Federal Republic of Germany: Negotiating Membership and Remaking the Nation

Abstract: List of Tables and Figure Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: MEMBERSHIP AND THE BASIC LAW Chapter 1. The International Dimension Chapter 2. The Federalist Dimension Chapter 3. The Civic/Political Dimension Chapter 4. The Social Dimension Chapter 5. The Ethnonational Dimension Chapter 6. Debating Concepts of National Membership Chapter 7. Integration, National Identity, and the Quest for Homogeneity PART II: LAYING THE FOUNDATION FOR MANAGING MIGRATION, 1949-1990 Chapter 8. The Descent of the Aussiedler and the Politics of the German Diaspora Chapter 9. The Federal Republic as German Homeland Chapter 10. A Tradition of Imported Labor Chapter 11. Between Retreat and Reform: Naturalization Laws and the Challenge of Integration Chapter 12. Aliens Policy and the Federal Courts Chapter 13. The FRG's International Refugee Challenge Chapter 14. Reunification: Triumph and Tragedy PART III: GERMANY INSIDE THE EUROPEAN UNION Chapter 15. Reforming the Frameworks: The Maastricht Treaty and The Basic Law Chapter 16. The Regulation of Asylum Chapter 17. Rethinking Legacies: The New Aussiedler Policy Chapter 18. Jewish Immigration: Contesting and Confirming Germany's Policies toward Immigrants Chapter 19. Reforming German Citizenship Law Chapter 20. Bilateral Agreements Chapter 21. Temporary Labor Migration Programs Chapter 22. The Amsterdam Treaty and the Emergent EU Migration Policy PART IV: GERMANY FACES THE FUTURE: NEW INITIATIVES, OLD HABITS Chapter 23. Green Cards and Leitkultur Chapter 24. Germany's and Europe's Demographic Dilemmas Chapter 25. Embracing Immigration: Laying the Foundation for a New Policy Chapter 26. From Policy Vision to Legislative Reality: The Making of the 2005 Migration Law Chapter 27. Integration and the Migration law Conclusion: Negotiating Difference and Belonging in Today's Germany Selected Bibliography Index

A 'guiding culture' for immigrants? Integration and diversity in Germany

Abstract: The Christian Democratic Union's (CDU's) recent proposal for a national 'guiding culture' as the basis for immigrant integration has aroused considerable controversy in Germany. This paper examines the underlying assumptions and framework of this approach to integration. It argues that this approach rests on a Romantic understanding of culture that obscures fundamental internal differences within majority cultures and further marginalises minorities. In postulating a unitary, homogeneous vision of German national culture, the CDU has forgotten the sharp conflicts that long divided German Protestants and Catholics, and which reached their apex during the Kulturkampf of the 1870s. Moreover, focussing on immigrant integration as primarily a cultural matter ignores the relationships of power that shape any integration process. The importance of looking at the institutional and structural dimensions of such a process is made clear by comparing the Federal Republic's experiences with integrating the expellees/r...

Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany.

Abstract: Preface Introduction: Traditions of Nationhood in France and Germany I. The Institution of Citizenship 1. Citizenship as Social Closure 2. The French Revolution and the Invention of National Citizenship 3. State, State-System, and Citizenship in Germany II. Defining The Citizenry: The Bounds of Belonging 4. Citizenship and Naturalization in France and Germany 5. Migrants into Citizens: The Crystallization of Jus Soli in Late-Nineteenth-Century France 6. The Citizenry as Community of Descent: The Nationalization of Citizenship in Wilhelmine Germany 7. \"Etre Francais, Cela se Merite\": Immigration and the Politics of Citizenship in France in the 1980s 8. Continuities in the German Politics of Citizenship Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Migrant Transnationalism and Modes of Transformation

Abstract: Much of the literature on migrant transnationalism focuses on the ways that specific sociocultural institutions have been modified in the course of being stretched across the globe. Yet migrant transnational practices are involved in more deep-seated patterns of change or structural transformation. Such modes of transformation concern: 1) an enhanced ‘bi-focality’of outlooks underpinning migrant lives lived here-and-there; such dual orientations have considerable influence on transnational family life and may continue to affect identities among subsequent post-migration generations; 2) heightened challenges to ‘identities-borders-orders’stemming from migrants' political affiliations in more than one nation-state; these particularly arise around questions of dual citizenship and nationality; and 3) potentially profound impacts on economic development by way of the sheer scale and evolving means of remittance sending; money transfer services, hometown associations and micro-finance institutions represent three kinds of remittance-related organizations currently undergoing significant forms of adaptation with significant consequences for development. These modes of transformation, and the practices of migrant transnationalism surrounding them, both draw from and contribute to wider processes of globalization.

Citizenship in flux: The figure of the activist citizen

Abstract: Throughout the twentieth century the figure of citizenship that has been dominant since the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries has begun to change. We have witnessed the emergence of new rights including ecological, sexual and indigenous rights as well as blurring of the boundaries between human and civil, political and social rights and the articulation of rights by (and to) cities, regions and across states. We have witnessed the birth of new ‘acts of citizenship’: both organized and spontaneous protests to include situationist and carnivalesque forms. We have also witnessed the emergence of ‘activist’ international courts (and judges), as well as new media and social networking as sites of struggles. How subjects act to become citizens and claim citizenship has thus substantially changed. This article interprets these developments as heralding a new figure of citizenship, and begins the important task of developing a new vocabulary by which it can be understood.

Citizenship and Immigration: Multiculturalism, Assimilation, and Challenges to the Nation-State

Abstract: Citizenship encompasses legal status, rights, participation, and belonging. Traditionally anchored in a particular geographic and political community, citizenship evokes notions of national identity, sovereignty, and state control, but these relationships are challenged by the scope and diversity of international migration. This review considers normative and empirical debates over citizenship and bridges an informal divide between European and North American literatures. We focus on citizenship within nation-states by discussing ethnic versus civic citizenship, multiculturalism, and assimilation. Going beyond nation-state boundaries, we also look at transnational, postnational, and dual citizenships. Throughout, we identify methodological and theoretical challenges in this field, noting the need for a more dynamic and comprehensive understanding of the inter-relationships between the dimensions of citizenship and immigration.

Transnational migration: taking stock and future directions

Abstract: Increasing numbers of sending states are systematically offering social and political membership to migrants residing outside their territories. The proliferation of these dual memberships contradicts conventional notions about immigrant incorporation, their impact on sending countries, and the relationship between migration and development in both contexts. But how do ordinary individuals actually live their lives across borders? Is assimilation incompatible with transnational membership? How does economic and social development change when it takes place across borders? This article takes stock of what is known about everyday transnational practices and the institutional actors that facilitate or impede them and outlines questions for future research. In it, I define what I mean by transnational practices and describe the institutions that create and are created by these activities. I discuss the ways in which they distribute migrants’ resources and energies across borders, based primarily on studies of migration to the United States.