Title:How Liberal are Citizenship Tests?
Author(s):BAUBOCK, Rainer; JOPPKE, ChristianDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:A significant number of –mostly Western European– countries have recently newly introduced
citizenship tests or have added stricter requirements of civic knowledge to previously existing
language tests. This working paper ...
Title:Courts, the New Constitutionalism and Immigrant Rights: The Case of the French Conseil Constitutionnel
Author(s):JOPPKE, Christian; MARZAL YETANO, EliaDate:2004Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article examines the role of courts in the creation of immigrant rights. Immigrant rights are located within a broader 'new constitutionalism' (especially in postwar Europe), in which courts have abandoned their ...
Title:Contesting Ethnic Immigration: Germany and Israel Compared
Author(s):JOPPKE, Christian; ROSENHEK, ZeevDate:2002Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:After World War 11, Israel and Germany adopted curiously similar policies of ethnic immigration, accepting as immigrants only putative co-ethnics. The objective of this article is to account for the main variation between ...
Title:Multicultural Citizenship: A Critique
Author(s):JOPPKE, ChristianDate:2001Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article discusses the theory and practice of multicultural citizenship in liberal states. Regarding theory, I point to the shortcomings of both 'radical' and 'liberal' approaches to justify minority rights. Regarding ...
Title:Controlling a New Migration World
Author(s):GUIRAUDON, Virginie; JOPPKE, ChristianDate:2001Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Controlling a New Migration World explores the factors that drive recent migration control policies and, in turn, sheds light on the unintended consequences of policies for the new character of migration. This book asks ...
Title:The Legal-Domestic Sources of Immigrant Rights - the United States, Germany, and the European Union
Author(s):JOPPKE, ChristianDate:2001Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article traces the evolution of two types of immigrant rights-alien rights and the right to citizenship-across three polities (the United States, Germany, and the European Union). It argues that the sources of rights ...
Title:How Immigration is Changing Citizenship: A Comparative View
Author(s):JOPPKE, ChristianDate:1999Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article compares the impact of post-war immigration on citizenship in three Western states: the United States, Germany and Great Britain. While focusing on national variations in the immigration-citizenship relationship, ...
Title:Toward A New Sociology of the State - On Brubaker,Roger
Author(s):JOPPKE, ChristianDate:1995Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article discusses Roger Brubaker's contribution to a new sociology of the state, which considers the state not as a strategic actor or a territorial organization but as a culturally bounded membership association. ...
Title:Revisionism, Dissidence, Nationalism - Opposition in Leninist Regimes
Author(s):JOPPKE, ChristianDate:1994Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article discusses some characteristics of opposition movements in Leninist regimes. The first part develops the concept of Leninist regime. Linking assumptions of totalitarianism and modernization theory, I point ...
