Calling for the Super Citizen: Naturalisation Procedures in the United Kingdom and Germany

Badenhoop, Elisabeth

Calling for the Super Citizen: Naturalisation Procedures in the United Kingdom and Germany
  • 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 出版日期: 2024-08-19
  • 售價: $5,090
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $4,836
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 232
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 3031342623
  • ISBN-13: 9783031342622

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"This book proposes a bold new interpretation of naturalisation requirements and procedures. Badenhoop regards them as state efforts to produce "Super Citizens", who contribute to the economy and cultural diversity, and show loyalty and gratitude. A must-read for scholars, policy-makers and others interested in citizenship."

- Rainer Bauböck, European University Institute, Italy

"Elisabeth Badenhoop's book provides important insights into the character of naturalisation processes in modern states. The figure of the "Super Citizen" is a powerful metaphor for the ways in which states use the naturalisation processes to place heavy demands on migrants."

-- Jo Shaw, Edinburgh Law School, UK

"Badenhoop's book is a powerful and revealing, indeed breakthrough study that will shape citizenship research for years to come."

-- Steven Vertovec, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany

This book offers the first empirical and holistic analysis of the design, implementation and effects of the new naturalisation regimes in the United Kingdom and Germany introduced in the 2000s. Based on a multi-sited state ethnography, it uniquely compares the law on the books, the local administration, and the lived experiences of citizenship tests, courses, and ceremonies from an interdisciplinary social science perspective.

The book argues that naturalisation procedures in both countries suggest to migrants to constantly optimise themselves in the state's interests toward the subjectivity of the "Super Citizen" - a political, economic, and cultural asset to the liberal-democratic, capitalist nation-state. The concept of the Super Citizen enables us to highlight and criticise the overburdening expectations toward citizens by application as opposed to citizens by birth. The analysis reveals that the self-presentation of Britain and Germany as liberal and meritocratic polities is in stark contrast to migrants' lived experiences of the naturalisation process.

By shedding light on naturalisation policies' efficacy, this book is aimed at students and scholars in sociology, politics, law, anthropology, and education, as well as policy-makers in the areas of citizenship and migration.

Elisabeth Badenhoop is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Wuppertal, Germany.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

這本書提出了一種大膽的新解釋，關於歸化要求和程序。Badenhoop 將其視為國家努力培養「超級公民」，這些公民對經濟和文化多樣性做出貢獻，並表現出忠誠和感激。這是學者、政策制定者及其他對公民身份感興趣的人必讀的書籍。

- Rainer Bauböck，歐洲大學研究所，義大利

Elisabeth Badenhoop 的書提供了對現代國家歸化過程特徵的重要見解。「超級公民」的形象是一個強有力的隱喻，表明國家如何利用歸化過程對移民提出嚴苛的要求。

-- Jo Shaw，愛丁堡法學院，英國

Badenhoop 的書是一項強而有力且具啟發性的突破性研究，將在未來幾年內塑造公民身份研究。

-- Steven Vertovec，德國馬克斯·普朗克宗教與民族多樣性研究所

這本書提供了對2000年代英國和德國新歸化制度設計、實施及其效果的首次實證和整體分析。基於多地點的國家民族誌，它獨特地比較了法律文本、地方行政以及從跨學科社會科學視角出發的公民身份測試、課程和儀式的實際經歷。

本書主張，兩國的歸化程序暗示移民必須不斷在國家的利益下優化自己，以符合「超級公民」的主觀性——這是一個對自由民主、資本主義民族國家的政治、經濟和文化資產。超級公民的概念使我們能夠突顯並批評對於申請公民的過度期望，與出生公民的期望形成對比。分析顯示，英國和德國自我呈現為自由和精英主義政治體的形象，與移民在歸化過程中的實際經歷形成鮮明對比。

通過揭示歸化政策的有效性，本書旨在吸引社會學、政治學、法律、人類學和教育領域的學生和學者，以及在公民身份和移民領域的政策制定者。

Elisabeth Badenhoop 是德國伍珀塔爾大學的社會學助理教授。

作者簡介

Elisabeth Badenhoop is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Wuppertal. She is the guest editor of 'Citizenship Matters: Assessing the History, Regulation and Lived Experiences of Naturalization from a Global Perspective' (Citizenship Studies, 2021). Her research has been published in leading journals, including Governance, Regulation & Governance, and Comparative Political Studies, and has been cited by the UK House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee. She holds a PhD from the University of Glasgow and was Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, and the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Elisabeth Badenhoop 是伍珀塔爾大學的社會學助理教授。她是《公民身份的重要性：從全球視角評估歸化的歷史、規範和生活經驗》（《Citizenship Studies》，2021）的客座編輯。她的研究已發表於多個領先期刊，包括《Governance》、《Regulation & Governance》和《Comparative Political Studies》，並被英國上議院司法和內政事務委員會引用。她擁有格拉斯哥大學的博士學位，曾擔任愛丁堡大學、馬克斯·普朗克宗教與民族多樣性研究所（Göttingen）及哈雷-維滕貝格馬丁路德大學的研究員。

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