Migration, asylum, and citizenship have become unavoidable
topics in contemporary European politics. Klopp examines the issues
of immigration, integration, and multiculturalism in Germany,
Europe's premier immigration country, through the perspectives of
both immigrants and local institutions (unions, employers, schools,
neighborhoods, and city government). Klopp addresses the potential
for immigration patterns and increasing heterogeneity to produce
the conditions for social transformation, and specifically he shows
how these factors are challenging and gradually transforming the
boundaries of citizenship and the nation in Germany.
Theoretically he argues against recent models of postnational
and transnational membership that claim that the nationstate model
of citizenship has been superseded by a new type of membership, one
that guarantees individual rights via international human rights
norms. Given the claims of these models, we should expect that
long-term resident aliens will be satisfied with the partial
citizenshp rights (civil and social) extended to them by liberal
European welfare states, and that they will not identify with, or
seek political rights from, their state of residence. On the
contrary, Klopps suggests that national-state citizenship remains
the essential form of formal social and political inclusion for the
majority of immigrants. In the past Germany has represented an
extreme case of ethnocultural exclusion, and it is therefore
something of a natural laboratory in which to examine the
reciprocal measures and mechanisms of political and social change
currently underway in Europe. Lessons learned from qualitative
empirical examination of immigration and integration processes in
Germany could prove instructive when compared to similar processes
of transformation underway in the other tranditonal nation-states
of Western Europe and in the efforts to define a common European
identity. Provocative reading for scholars, students, and other
researchers as well as policy makers involved with migration
issues, comparative politics and citizenship, and contemporary
German studies.
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