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Title: Citizenship, Nationality, and Migration in Europe by David Cesarani, Mary Fulbrook ISBN: 0-415-13101-4 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: August, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95

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Average Customer Rating: 2 (1 review)

Rating: 2
Summary: Outdated and too idealistic
Comment: This collection of 11 essays, although only four years old, is already so outdated that it is practically useless as a guide to current citizenship debates in Europe. The decline of the Northern League in Italy, the changes to the citizenship laws in Germany and the current debates about refugees in the U.K. have invalidated many of the theses presented here. Furthermore, many of the authors either fill their essays with postmodern jargon (i.e. Max Silverman's discussion of 'dangerous discourses') or have little idea about the meanings of nationality and nationalism outside of law. As a result the authors tend to condemn nationalism without examining the reasons for its support, thus leading them to predict the advent of post-national citizenship in the near future, something truly idealistic and pie-in-the-sky.

The reason I didn't give this book only 1 star is because it does contain a couple of good histories of citizenship in Britain, France and Germany. For instance, I found it fascinating that the reason why France follows a law of jus soli (i.e. those born on French soil can become French citizens) is due to the nineteenth-century desire to force all people in France to become French citizens.

In any case, I don't recommend this book for the above reasons.