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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
December 2020
Print publication year:
2021
Online ISBN:
9781108696968
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108696968
Subjects:
Political Sociology, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics, Sociology
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Book description

The Brexit and Trump shocks of 2016 mark a deep caesura in the history of liberal societies. It is no longer sufficient, if it ever was, to look at Western states' immigration and citizenship policies through the single lens of advancing liberalism. Instead, two additional forces need to be reckoned with: a new nationalism, but also the neoliberal restructuring of state and society in which it is generated. Joppke demonstrates that many of the new policies have their roots in neoliberalism rather than the new nationalism. Moreover, some of them, such as 'earned citizenship', are the product of neoliberalism and nationalism working in tandem, in terms of a neoliberal nationalism. The neoliberalism-nationalism nexus is complex, its elements sometimes opposing but sometimes complementing or even constituting one another. This topical book will appeal to students and scholars of populism, nationalism, and immigration and citizenship, across comparative politics, sociology and political theory.

Reviews

‘Neoliberal Nationalism is a masterfully executed analysis of the impact of neoliberalism and contemporary nationalism on immigration and citizenship policy across the Global North. By analyzing neoliberalism and nationalism side-by-side, Joppke once again breaks new theoretical ground. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in immigration populism.'

Antje Ellermann - Associate Professor of Political Science (Comparative Politics), and Director of the Institute for European Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

'This book is an impressive achievement. It is a work of wide-ranging synthesis - drawing on political theory, immigration studies, and political economy - and of penetrating analysis. Swimming against a mighty current, Joppke rejects the term ‘populism’ as so varied in meaning to be devoid of content and instead explains immigration and citizenship policy with reference to two concepts: nationalism and neo-liberalism. Brexit, Trump, and the far-right are the triumph of an ugly and exclusivist nationalism, and all three are both products and critiques of neo-liberalism. Contemporary immigration and citizenship are anti-nationalist but neo-liberal: qualifications-based, rights-denuded, and increasingly temporary in the former, earned rather than automatically acquired in the latter. Liberalism, both bloodied and bowed, will survive the dual onslaught, but it will never be the same. Analytically powerful and beautifully written, this is the best book on immigration and citizenship available.'

Randall Hansen - University of Toronto

'Neoliberal Nationalism does what many other books about immigration (and especially anti-immigration) policies promise but do not deliver: it takes neoliberalism seriously ... Recommended.'

R. A. Harper Source: Choice

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