In a sweeping review of the entire field of citizenship and immigration, this book argues that citizenship in Western states is converging on a liberal model of inclusive citizenship with diminished rights implications and increasingly universalistic identities.

“This is a superb piece of scholarship” – Marc Morjé Howard, Georgetown University

“In this tour de force, Joppke moves nimbly from social theory to current policy developments” – Irene Bloemraad, University of California, Berkeley

Read the review of the book by EUDO-Citizenship co-director Rainer Bauböck: Citizenship in European immigration states: light or twilight? (European Political Science, 9, 2010: 439-445).

Publication detail and source to publication: Christian Joppke, ‘Citizenship and Immigration’, Cambridge Polity Press, 2010.