Citizenship and Migration: Globalization and the Politics of Belonging

Citizenship and Migration: Globalization and the Politics of Belonging

Stephen Castles, Alastair Davidson
$70.74
Publication Date: April 13th, 2000
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:
9780333643105
Pages:
258

Description

Globalization creates new challenges for citizenship: boundaries are being blurred and nation-state powers eroded. Millions of people have multiple citizenship, millions more lack citizenship of their country of residence. Cultural heterogeneity is escalating. There are increasing numbers of citizens who do not belong. This undermines the nation-state as the central site of democracy. New approaches are needed, which take account of complex identities and transnational belonging, and which allow for democratic control of power at all its proliferating levels.

About the Author

STEPHEN CASTLES is Professor and Director, Centre for Multicultural Studies, University of Wollongong, Australia. He is the author, with Mark Miller, of The Age of Migration (second edition). ALASTAIR DAVIDSON is Professor of Politics at Monash and Inaugural Professor of Citizenship Studies, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. His recent publications include Globalisation and Citizenship in the Asia-Pacific (Macmillan).STEPHEN CASTLES is Professor and Director, Centre for Multicultural Studies, University of Wollongong, Australia. He is the author, with Mark Miller, of The Age of Migration (second edition). ALASTAIR DAVIDSON is Professor of Politics at Monash and Inaugural Professor of Citizenship Studies, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. His recent publications include Globalisation and Citizenship in the Asia-Pacific (Macmillan).