Challenging Ethnic Citizenship »

In contrast of most other countries, both Germany and Israel have descent-based concepts of nationhood and have granted members of their nation (ethnic Germans and Jews) who wish to immigrate automatic access to their respective citizenship privileges. Therefore these two countries lend themselves well to comparative analysis of the integration process of immigrant groups, who are formally part of the collective self but increasingly transformed into others.

This volume offers rich empirical and theoretical material involving historical developments, demographic changes, sociological problems, anthropological insights, and political implications. Focusing on the three dimensions of citizenship: sovereignty and control, the allocation of social and political rights, and questions of national identity, the essays bring to light the elements that are distinctive for either society but also point to similarities that owe as much to nation-specific characteristics as to evolving patterns of global migration.

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Changing Configurations of German and Israeli Immigration Regimes - a Comparative Perspective	1
Pt. I	Citizenship and Migration
1	Ethnos or Demos? Migration and Citizenship in Germany	15
2	From Haven to Heaven: Changing Patterns of Immigration to Israel	36
Pt. II	Citizenship and Naturalization
3	Citizenship and Naturalization Politics in Germany in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries	59
4	Reform of the Citizenship Law: The Debate over Dual Citizenship in Germany	76
5	The Golem and Its Creator, or How the Jewish Nation-State Became Multiethnic	82
Pt. III	Minorities and Incorporation Regimes
6	German Citizenship Policy and Sinti Identity Politics	107
7	Beyond the "Second Generation": Rethinking the Place of Migrant Youth Culture in Berlin	121
8	Migration Regimes and Social Rights: Migrant Workers in the Israeli Welfare State	137
9	Ethnicity and Citizenship in the Perception of Russian Israelis	154
Pt. IV	Citizenship and Identity
10	Nationalism, Identity, and Citizenship: An Epilogue to the Yehoshua-Shammas Debate	181
11	The Future of Arab Citizenship in Israel: Jewish-Zionist Time in a Place with No Palestinian Memory	196
12	The Transformation of Germany's Ethno-cultural Idiom: The Case of Ethnic German Immigrants	221
Pt. V	Revisiting Citizenship and Identity: The Jewish Experience
13	The Jewish Challenges in the New Europe	239
14	From Citizen Warrior to Citizen Shopper and Back: New Modes of Cosmopolitan Citizenship	253
	Afterword: Outlook(s) - Citizenship in the Global Era	268
	Notes on Contributors	277
	Index	280