Beyond a Methodologically Nationalist Perspective on Civil Society

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Notes

1. See Rogers Brubaker, “The Return of Assimilation? Changing Perspectives on Immigration and its Sequels in France, Germany, and the US,” Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 24, No. 4 (2001), pp. 431–548.

2. For an early summary, see Barbara Schmitter Heisler, “Immigrant Settlement and the Structure of Emergent Immigrant Communities in Western Europe,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, Vol. 485 (1986), pp. 76–86.

3. See for example John Rex, Danièle Joly and Czarina Wilpert (eds.), Immigrant Associations in Europe (Aldershot: Gower, 1987).

4. Wolfgang Streeck and Philippe C. Schmitter, “Community, Market, State—and Associations? The Prospective Contribution of Interest Governance to Social Order,” European Sociological Review, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1985), pp. 119–38.

5. Samir Dasgupta, and Nederveen Pieterse (eds.), Politics of Globalization (New Delhi: Sage, 2009); see also Thomas Faist, “Migrants as Transnational Development Agents: An Inquiry into the Newest Round of the Migration‐Development Nexus,” Population, Space and Place, Vol. 14, No. 1 (2008), pp. 21–42; Thomas Faist, “The Transnational Social Question: Social Rights and Citizenship in a Global Context,” International Sociology, Vol. 24, No. 1 (2009), pp. 7–35.

6. For many, see Linda Basch, Nina Glick Schiller and Christina Szanton Blanc, Nations Unbound: Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments and Deterritorialized Nation (Langhorne: Gordon & Breach, 1994).

7. Andreas Wimmer and Nina Glick Schiller, “Methodological Nationalism, the Social Sciences, and the Study of Migration: An Essay in Historical Epistemology,” International Migration Review, Vol. 37, No. 3 (2003), pp. 576–610.

8. For a recent review of the literature, see Gary P. Freeman, “National Models, Policy Types, and the Politics of Immigration in Liberal Democracies,” West European Politics, Vol. 29, No. 2 (2006), pp. 227–47.

9. Adrian Favell, Philosophies of Integration: Immigration and the Idea of Citizenship in France and Britain (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998).

10. Ulrich Beck, Die Erfindung des Politischen. Zu einer Theorie reflexiver Modernisierung [The Invention of the Political: To a Theory of Reflexive Modernization] (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1993).

11. Robert Putnam, “E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty‐First Century,” Scandinavian Political Studies, Vol. 30, No. 2 (2007), pp. 137–74.

12. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, J.P. Mayer (ed.), translated by George Lawrence (New York: Harper & Row, 1988 [first published in French in 1835 and 1841]).

13. Jeffrey Alexander, The Civil Sphere (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).