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The Politics of Citizenship in Germany - Ethnicity, Utility and Nationalism (Paperback, First)
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The Politics of Citizenship in Germany - Ethnicity, Utility and Nationalism (Paperback, First)
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Why did German states for so long make it extraordinarily difficult
for foreigners who were not ethnic Germans to become citizens? To
what extent was this policy a product of popular national feeling,
and to what extent was it shaped by the more state-centered goals
of the political elite? In what ways did Nazi citizenship policies
perpetuate, or break with, the actions of earlier German states?
What does this larger historical context suggest about the causes
for, and implications of, the recent and dramatic liberalization in
German citizenship laws?
German states have long exercised tight control over which
foreigners might become citizens. Because Germans felt a cultural
attachment to other ethnic Germans, it has been argued, German
national states naturally welcomed the immigration of ethnic
Germans and sought to prevent the naturalization of individuals who
were considered foreign. It is true that ethnic nationalism came to
play a - and after 1918 the - key role in German citizenship and
naturalization policies. But ethnicity was far from the only
criterion employed to distinguish desirable from undesirable
subjects or citizens.
In a study that begins in the early nineteenth century and reaches
the dramatic changes of the 1990s, the author challenges the
traditional interpretation of the role of ethnicity. He shows that
appeals to ethnic solidarity often masked more political
objectives. Other factors affecting the politics of citizenship
included German states' efforts to mold and improve society and to
safeguard their own grip on power; changing conceptions of economic
and military utility; the personality and political aims of
Bismarck; the international conflict withBritain, France, and
Russia; anti-Semitism and the world wars. While other authors have
stressed consensus within German society, this account focuses on
conflict.
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