Citizenship is a legal status as well as an activity of political participation. This book is a collaborative effort that provides an overview over current theories and empirical research on citizenship in European contexts of migration. Citizenship is frequently invoked both as an instrument and goal of immigrant integration. Yet, in migration contexts, citizenship also marks a distinction between members and outsiders based on their different relations to particular states.

A migration perspective highlights the boundaries of citizenship and political control over entry and exit as well as the fact that foreign residents remain in most countries deprived of core rights of political participation. This book summarizes current theories and empirical research on the legal status and political participation of migrants in European democracies.

This title is published in the IMISCOE-AUP Book Series. In co-operation with the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) the IMISCOE Network has created five IMISCOE book series.

This book is a collaborative effort that provides an overview over current theories and empirical research on citizenship in European contexts of migration

The IMISCOE-AUP Book Series are part of IMISCOE which is an EU funded Network of Excellence in the Sixth Framework

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Rainer Bauböck is senior researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Previous publications: Transnational Citizenship, Edward Elgar, Aldershot, 1994; From Aliens to Citizens (ed.), Avebury, Aldershot, 1994; Blurred Boundaries (ed.), Avebury, Aldershot, 1998.

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Urban Policy

Social inclusion & integration