Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany
Author | : Rogers BRUBAKER |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674028945 |
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The difference between French and German definitions of citizenship is instructive--and, for millions of immigrants from North Africa, Turkey, and Eastern Europe, decisive. Rogers Brubaker shows how this difference--between the territorial basis of the French citizenry and the German emphasis on blood descent--was shaped and sustained by sharply differing understandings of nationhood, rooted in distinctive French and German paths to nation-statehood.