Penn Press Series on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism

The Penn Press Series on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism is jointly produced by the Penn DCC Program and the University of Pennsylvania Press.  Professor Rogers M. Smith, Chair of the Executive Committee of the DCC Program, is Series Editor. The Penn Press Series will publish edited volumes drawn from papers presented in the DCC Program each year as well as other scholarly works pertinent to the Series themes.

Vol. 1: Citizenship, Borders, and Human Needs AVAILABLE NOW

Edited and with an introduction by political scientist and Chair of the Executive Committee of the DCC Program, Rogers M. Smith, Citizenship, Borders, and Human Needs, brings together essays by an international array of leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines to explore the economic, cultural, political, and normative aspects of comparative immigration policies.  In the first section, contributors go beyond familiar explanations of immigration's economic effects to explore whose needs are truly helped and harmed by current migration patterns.  Other essays consider the implications of immigration for politics and citizenship. In many nations, large-scale immigration challenges existing political institutions, which must struggle to foster political inclusion and accommodate changing ways of belonging to the polity. The volume concludes with contrasting reflections on the normative standards that should guide immigration policies in modern constitutional democracies.  Citizenship, Borders, and Human Needsdevelops connections between thoughtful scholarship and public policy, thereby advancing public debate on these complex and divisive issues.

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Citizenship, Borders, and Human Needs*Citizenship, Borders, and Human
Needs* <http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14810.html>
Edited by Rogers M. Smith
472 pages | 6 x 9
Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4283-6 | $65.00 | £42.50
A volume in the Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
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