Books by Christian Joppke

Multiculturalism is controversial in the liberal state and has frequently been declared dead, even in countries that have never had a policy under that name.

Throughout human history, religion and politics have entertained the most intimate of connections as systems of authority regulating individuals and society. While the two have come apart through the process of secularization, secularism is challenged today by the return of public religion.

Christian Joppke and John Torpey show how four liberal democracies—France, Germany, Canada, and the U.S.—have responded to the challenge of integrating Muslim populations. Demonstrating the centrality of the legal system to this process, they argue that institutional barriers to integration are no greater on one side of the Atlantic than the other.

In a world of mutually exclusive nation-states, international migration constitutes a fundamental anomaly. Such states have been inclined to select migrants according to their origins; the result is ethnic migration. But Joppke shows that after World War II there has been a trend toward non-discriminatory immigration policies across Western states.

In contrast to the dissident movements of Eastern Europe, the East German movement remained committed to the 'revisionist' reform of the communist regime. As a result, East German dissidents had to remain in a paradoxical way 'loyal' to the old regime.

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.

A short, readily accessible and beautifully written piece on a subject of hot debate and controversy. Argues the limits of integration and critiques multiculturalism -- will spark debate Offers valuable insights into how French, British and German policymakers and courts have dealt with their respective 'headscarf affairs.