Title: Constructing Citizenship and Noncitizenship in Postwar Japan
Abstract: According to Rogers Brubaker (1992), citizenship policies in the modern world have demonstrated remarkable continuity because they are based on the deeply rooted national traditions of each nation-state. His comparative historical study traces modern German citizenship policies, which were based predominantly on the principle of jus sanguinis until recently, to the ethnocultural understandings of nationhood that preceded the development of the German nation-state. Likewise, he argues that liberal citizenship policies in France have their origins in the assimilationist understandings of nationhood that date back to the rationalist, cosmopolitan tradition of the eighteenth century.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-03-31
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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