From the Bookshelf

Asian Immigration to the United States by Philip Q. Yang will be published in April. Asia has become one of the two main sources of immigration to the US in the post-1965 era. One in three immigrants in America now is of Asian descent. Although the past four decades have produced a prodigious amount of information on Asian immigration and immigrants, systematic social-science research on post-1965 Asian immigration to the United States remains meager. This book seeks to redress that void for a range of Asian immigrant groups, posing central questions: why do they come to the US, how do they adapt, and what effects have they had on American life?

Citizenship and Immigration by Christian Joppke

 is available for wide distribution. The book was published in February, 2010. This incisive book provides a succinct overview of the new academic field of citizenship and immigration, as well as presenting a fresh and original argument about changing citizenship in our contemporary human rights era. Instead of being nationally resilient or in “postnational” decline, citizenship in Western states has continued to evolve, converging on a liberal model of inclusive citizenship with diminished rights implications and increasingly universalistic identities. This convergence is demonstrated through a sustained comparison of developments in North America, Western Europe and Australia. Topics covered in the book include: recent trends in nationality laws; what ethnic diversity does to the welfare state; the decline of multiculturalism accompanied by the continuing rise of antidiscrimination policies; and the new state campaigns to “upgrade” citizenship in the post-2001 period. Sophisticated and informative, and written in a lively and accessible style, this book will appeal to upper-level students and scholars in sociology, political science, and immigration and citizenship studies.

KJ