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Rights across Borders: Immigration and the Decline of Citizenship by David Jacobson (Paperback, 1997)

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ISBN-13: 9780801857706, 978-0801857706. Rights across Borders. It studies in depth the criteria by which France, Germany, and the United States distinguish between citizen and alien, from the political-territorial definition of the French to the ethno-cultural one of the Germans.".

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This text argues that transnational migrations have affected ideas of citizenship since World War II. The author shows how citizenship has been increasingly devalued as governments extend rights to foreign populations and how, in turn, international human rights law has overshadowed traditional definitions of sovereignty. Examining illegal immigration in the United States and migrant and foreign populations in Western Europe, with special focus on Germany and France, the author shows how the differing political cultures of these countries - the ethnic basis of citizenship in Germany versus its political basis in the United States, for instance - have shaped both domestic and international policies.