Extending Citizenship, Reconfiguring States

Citizenship has come under intense discussion recently because of threats to welfare and shifting immigration policies. The European Union has opened transnational citizenship rights and fledgling democracies throughout the world are struggling to establish their own versions of citizenship. Extending Citizenship, Reconfiguring States connects all these current discussions and places them in historical perspective. The book presents a thematically unified analysis of changing citizenship practices over two centuries_from the eve of the French Revolution to contemporary China. Showing how rights emerge with the appearance of new social groups and the reconfiguration of states, the authors identify conditions under which rights and citizenship expand as new groups develop within consolidated states as well as how rights and citizenship emerge within fragmented states with cross-cutting legal jurisdictions.

Michael Hanagan is adjunct professor at the New School for Social Research Barbara Hobson is an associate professor in the Sociology Department at Stockholm University and director of the Advanced Research School in Comparative Gender Studies John Markoff is professor of sociology, history, and political science at the University of Pittsburgh Maarten Prak is professor of social and economic history at the University of Utrecht Teal Rothschild is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology and historical studies at the New School for Social Research. She is adjunct lecturer in the sociology department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York Ariel Salzmann teaches early modern Middle Eastern and world history in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies of New York University Suzanne Shanahan is an assistant professor of sociology and North American studies at Duke University Abram De Swaan is cofounder of the Amsterdam School for Social Research. He has been professor of sociology at the University of Amsterdam since 1973 Charles Tilly teaches social sciences at Columbia University Antje Wiener is an assistant professor at the Institute for Political Science, University of Hanover R. Bin Wong is professor of history and social sciences at the University of California, Irvine