Immigration and the Nation-State: The United States, Germany, and Great Britain.(Review) (book review)

Immigration and the Nation-State: The United States, Germany, and Great Britain. By Christian Joppke. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. 356p. $72.00 cloth, $22.95 paper.

This book will enhance Christian Joppke's growing reputation as one of the most thoughtful commentators on the politics of international migration and citizenship. Immigration and the Nation-State is an impressive cross-national comparison that builds on elite interviews and reanalysis of primary materials, but its chief value is in its bold synthesis and critique of a rapidly growing and highly disjointed ...

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