Format:
1 online resource (280 pages)
ISBN:
9780511151767
Content:
Examining Germany and the United States, this book argues that immigration policy in Western democracies is unjust and undemocratic.
Content:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Overview -- The case-studies: United States and Germany -- Some preliminary remarks -- 2 A democratic challenge -- Social membership as a path to inclusion -- Defining the bounds of the political community as a liberal democratic concern -- Limits to exclusion in a liberal democratic state -- Residence and subjection to the laws: the narrow sense of subjection -- Residence and societal integration: deep affectedness -- Some cautionary remarks -- The protection of legitimate expectations: a competing foundation? -- National sovereignty and automatic incorporation: limiting the scope of the claims -- 3 Fair to whom? -- Setting the fairness objection -- Exploring the fairness objection -- The duty to defend the state as a 'citizen duty' -- The possibility of leaving the state as a 'citizen prerogative' -- Looking at fairness from the other way round -- 4 Safeguarding liberal democracy from itself -- Setting the democratic objection -- Exploring the democratic objection -- Homogeneous body of citizens v. homogeneously different body of permanent resident aliens? -- The democratic relevance of heterogeneity -- Inclusion as a path to integrating differences and ensuring cohesion -- Exclusion to encourage effective inclusion -- What effective inclusion requires -- 5 Inclusion without consent -- The exclusion of illegal resident aliens -- Automatic incorporation of illegal resident aliens -- Fairness and the inclusion of illegal resident aliens -- Illegal resident aliens and the democratic objection -- 6 Keeping nationality relevant -- Disentangling rights from citizenship v. encouraging naturalization -- The alternative of automatic incorporation -- Conditions for the valid application of automatic membership.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521771528
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521771528
Additional Edition:
Print version Immigration as a Democratic Challenge : Citizenship and Inclusion in Germany and the United States
Language:
English
Subjects:
Law
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Sociology
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=153371
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