The Ironies of Citizenship

Thomas Janoski is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of Citizenship and Civil Society (1998) and The Political Economy of Unemployment. He is lead editor of The Handbook of Political Sociology (with Alexander Hicks, Mildred Schwartz, and the late Robert Alford) and co-editor of The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State (with Alexander Hicks).

• 1. Introduction: the politics of granting citizenship; 2. Wide measures with synthetic and dynamic methods; Part I. The Colonizers and Settlers: 3. Colonization in reverse: the degrees of empire in the UK and France; 4. From manifest destiny to multi-culturalism in the settler countries; Part II. Matched Case Studies and Exceptions: 5. European colonizer versus short term occupier: Austria and Germany; 6. World colonizer versus late occupier: The Netherlands and Belgium; 7. Left and green politics trump regime types in Nordic countries; Part III. The Comprehensive Analysis of Naturalization Rates: 8. Explaining naturalization rates in eighteen countries: regimes over centuries and politics and institutions over decades; 9. Conclusion - explanations and future of citizenship.

“The Ironies of Citizenship brings together an unprecedented wealth of information on citizenship that spans more than three decades and 18 countries. Janoski uses his impressive store of legal knowledge and naturalization statistics to forcefully argue that contemporary politics and historical experiences, especially of colonialism, are the driving forces behind immigrants’ formal political membership today. An important, empirically-grounded addition to current debates about immigrant citizenship.” —Irene Bloemraad, University of California, Berkeley