In a world of nation-states, international migration
raisesquestions of membership: Should foreigners be admitted to the
nationalspace? If so, according to what criteria and for what ends?
And shouldthey and their children be granted citizenship? Canada
andGermany's responses to these questions during the first half
ofthe twentieth century consisted of discriminatory immigration
andcitizenship policies aimed at harnessing migration for economic
endswhile minimizing its costs. Yet, by the end of the century,
theadmission, settlement, and incorporation of previously excluded
groupshad transformed both countries into highly diverse
multiculturalsocieties.
"Becoming Multicultural" explains how this remarkable shiftcame
about. Triadafilopoulos argues that world-historical events
andepoch-defining processes -- including the Holocaust,
decolonization, and the emergence of global human rights culture --
gave rise to amarkedly different normative context after the Second
World War. Thesechanges in global norms made the maintenance of
established membershipregimes difficult to defend, opening the way
for the liberalization ofCanada and Germany's immigration and
citizenship policies.
Combining sophisticated theoretical reflection and careful
empiricalanalysis, this thought-provoking book sheds light on the
dynamics ofmembership politics and policy making in
contemporaryliberal-democratic countries.
Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos is an assistant professorof
Political Science at the University of Toronto Scarborough.
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