Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany

The difference between French and German definitions of citizenship is instructiveand, for millions of immigrants from North Africa, Turkey, and Eastern Europe, decisive. Rogers Brubaker shows how this differencebetween the territorial basis of the French citizenry and the German emphasis on blood descentwas shaped and sustained by sharply differing understandings of nationhood, rooted in distinctive French and German paths to nation-statehood.