Citizenship and Migration: Globalization and the Politics of Belonging

Stephen Castles, Alastair Davidson

Macmillan Education UK, Apr 13, 2000 - Political Science - 258 pages

Globalization creates new challenges for citizenship: boundaries are being blurred and nation-state powers eroded. Millions of people have multiple citizenship, millions more lack citizenship of their country of residence. Cultural heterogeneity is escalating. There are increasing numbers of citizens who do not belong. This undermines the nation-state as the central site of democracy. New approaches are needed, which take account of complex identities and transnational belonging, and which allow for democratic control of power at all its proliferating levels.

About the author

STEPHEN CASTLES is Professor and Director, Centre for Multicultural Studies, University of Wollongong, Australia. He is the author, with Mark Miller, of The Age of Migration (second edition).

ALASTAIR DAVIDSON is Professor of Politics at Monash and Inaugural Professor of Citizenship Studies, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. His recent publications include Globalisation and Citizenship in the Asia-Pacific (Macmillan).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Citizenship and Migration: Globalization and the Politics of Belonging
• Authors: Stephen Castles, Alastair Davidson
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Macmillan Education UK, 2000
• ISBN: 0333643097, 9780333643099
• Length: 258 pages
• Subjects: Political Science / Public Policy / General; Political Science / Public Policy / Social Policy; Social Science / Sociology / General