Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Soziologie

Institut für Soziologie
Universität Bern
Lerchenweg 36
CH - 3012 Bern

Tel.  +41 31 631 48 13
Fax. +41 31 631 48 17
E-Mail: christian.joppke@soz.unibe.ch

Raum: S 106

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PREVIOUS POSITIONS

CJ held professorships in sociology and political science (from tenure-track assistant to full) at the University of Southern California, European University Institute, University of British Columbia, International University Bremen, and American University of Paris

CURRENT RESEARCH AND WRITING

“State Neutrality and Accommodating Islam in North America and Europe” (with John Torpey, CUNY Gradudate Center; supported by a Swiss Population, Migration and Environment (PME) Foundation/International Metropolis Project Grant of 100.000 Euro).

“Immigrant Integration in Federations” (collaborative project with F.Leslie Seidle, Senior Policy Advisor, Forum of Federations; results to be published by McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal in 2011).

BOOKS (monographs)

• Citizenship and Immigration. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2010 (a Japanese translation is in preparation by Iwanami Shoten publishers, Tokyo).
• Veil: Mirror of Identity. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2009.
• Selecting by Origin: Ethnic Migration in the Liberal State. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005.
• Immigration and the Nation-State: The United States, Germany, and Great Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
• East German Dissidents and the Revolution of 1989: Social Movement in a Leninist Regime. London: Macmillan and New York: New York University Press, 1995 (Named “Outstanding Academic Book for 1995” by Choice Magazine).
• Mobilizing Against Nuclear Energy: A Comparison of Germany and the United States. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993.

BOOKS (edited)

• Toward Assimilation and Citizenship: Immigrants in Liberal Nation-States (co-edited with Ewa Morawska). London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003.
• Controlling a New Migration World (co-edited with Virginie Guiraudon). London: Routledge, 2001.
• Multicultural Questions (co-edited with Steven Lukes). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
• Challenge to the Nation-State: Immigration in Western Europe and the United States (edited). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

JOURNAL ARTICLES (refereed):

• “The Inevitable Lightening of Citizenship”, European Journal of Sociology 51(1), 2010, 9-32.
• “Minority Rights for Immigrants? Multiculturalism versus Antidiscrimination”, Israel Law Review 43, 2010, 49-66.
• “Islamic liberalism?” European Journal of Sociology 50(3), 2009, 514-518.
• “Is religion the problem?” Ethnicities 9(4), 2009, 560-66.
• “Limits of Integration Policy: Britain and her Muslims,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 25(3), 2009, 453-472 (also appeared as book chapter, in Erik Bleich, ed. Muslims and the State in the Post-9/11 West. New York: Routledge, 2009).
• “Immigration and the Identity of Citizenship,” Citizenship Studies 12(6), 2008, 533-46.
• “Comparative Citizenship: A Restrictive Turn in Europe?” Journal of Law and Ethics of Human Rights 2, 2008, 1-41.
• “State Neutrality and Islamic Headscarf Laws in France and Germany,” Theory and Society 36(4), 2007, 313-342.
• “Transformation of Immigrant Integration: Civic Integration and Antidiscrimination in the Netherlands, France, and Germany,” World Politics 59(2), 2007, 243-73.
• “Transformation of Citizenship: Status, Rights, Identity”, Citizenship Studies 11(1), 2007, 37-48 (also appeared as book chapter, in Engin F. Isin, Peter Nyers, and Bryan S. Turner, eds. Citizenship between Past and Future, London: Routledge 2008).
• “Beyond National Models: Civic Integration Policies for Immigrants in Western Europe”, West European Politics 30(1), 2007, 1-22.
• “Exclusion in the Liberal State: The Case of Immigration and Citizenship Policy,” European Journal of Social Theory 8(1), 2005, 43-61. A Czech translation appeared in Socíalní Studia, 1/2006.
• “Are ‘Nondiscriminatory’ Immigration Policies Reversible? Evidence from the United States and Australia,” Comparative Political Studies 38(1), 2005, 3-25.
• “The Retreat of Multiculturalism in the Liberal State: Theory and Policy,” British Journal of Sociology 55(2), 2004, 237-257. A French translation of an earlier version appeared in Riva Kastoryano, ed. Les codes de la difference. Paris: Presses de Sciences Po, 2006. A Dutch translation appeared in Ethische Perspectieven 16(3), 2006, 242-266.
• “Ethnic Diversity and the State” British Journal of Sociology 55(3), 2004, 451-463.
• “Muslims and the Veil: Germany through the prism of France” (in Spanish), Revista Internacional de Filososofía Política no.24, 2004, 61-76.
• “Courts, the New Constitutionalism and Immigrant Rights: The Case of the French Conseil Constitutionnel” (with Elia Marzal), European Journal of Political Research 43, 2004, 825-46.
• “Citizenship between De- and Re-Ethnicization,” Archives européennes de sociologie 44(3), 2003, 429-458 (a reprint appeared in M. Bodemann and G.Yurdakul, eds. Migration, Citizenship, Ethnos. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan 2006).
• “Staatsbürgerschaft und Migration in nationaler und postnationaler Perspektive” Zeitschrift für Sozialreform 49(1), 2003, 26-44.
• “Contesting Ethnic Immigration: Germany and Israel Compared” (with Zeev Rosenhek) Archives européennes de sociologie 43(3), 2002, 301-335. A shorter version is reprinted in Takeyuki Tsuda, ed. Diasporic Homecomings: Ethnic Return Migration in Comparative Perspective. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press 2009.
• “Multicultural Citizenship: A Critique,” Archives européennes de sociologie 42(2), 2001, 431-447 (republished in E.Isin and B.Turner, eds. The Citizenship Reader. London: Sage, 2002).
• “The Legal-Domestic Sources of Immigrant Rights: the United States, Germany, and the European Union,” Comparative Political Studies 34(4), 2001, 339-366.
• “How Immigration is Changing Citizenship: A Comparative View,” Ethnic and Racial Studies 22(4), 1999, 629-52.
• “Einwanderung und Staatsbürgerschaft in Deutschland und den USA,” Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 51(1), 1999, 34-54.
• “Why Liberal States Accept Unwanted Immigration,” World Politics 50(2), 1998, 266-93 (reprinted in: Andrew Geddes, ed. International Migration. London: SAGE, forthcoming in July 2011).
• “Asylum and State Sovereignty,” Comparative Political Studies 30(3), 1997, 291-330.
• “Multiculturalism and Immigration,” Theory and Society 25(4), 1996, 449-500 (A shorter version appeared in David Jacobson, ed. Immigration in the United States. Oxford: Blackwell, 1997; an excerpt “The Legacy of Empire” appeared in Anthony Giddens, ed. Sociology. Oxford: Blackwell, 1997).
• “Toward a New Sociology of the State: A Review Essay,” Archives européennes de sociologie 36(1), 1995, 168-78.
• “Intellectuals, Nationalism, and the Exit from Communism: The Case of East Germany,”Comparative Studies in Society and History 37(2), 1995, 213-241.
• “Revisionism, Dissidence, Nationalism: Opposition in Leninist Regimes,” British Journal of Sociology 45(4), 1994, 543-61.
• “Why Leipzig? ‘Exit’ and ‘Voice’ in the East German Revolution,” German Politics 2(3), 1993, 393-414.
• “Decentralization of Control in U.S. Nuclear Energy Policy,” Political Science Quarterly 107(4), 1992, 709-725.
• “Explaining Cross-National Variations of Two Antinuclear Movements,” Sociology 26(2), 1992, 311-331.
• “Models of Statehood in the German Nuclear Energy Debate,” Comparative Political Studies 25(2), 1992, 251-80.
• “Social Movements During Cycles of Issue Attention,” British Journal of Sociology 42(1), 1991, 43-60.
• “Citizenship, Ecology, and Risk: A Review Essay,” Praxis International 11(1), 1991, 109-15.
• “Nuclear Power Struggles After Chernobyl,” West European Politics 13(2), 1990, 178-91.
• “The Crisis of the Welfare State, Collective Consumption, and the Rise of New Social Actors,” Berkeley Journal of Sociology vol.32, 1987, 237-60.
• “The Cultural Dimensions of Class Formation and Class Struggle: On the Social Theory of Pierre Bourdieu,” Berkeley Journal of Sociology vol.31, 1986, 53-78.
  

JOURNAL ARTICLES (non-refereed), POLICY BRIEFS, etc:

• “The Role of the Sending State and Society in Immigrant Integration”, Analytic and Synthetic Notes CARIM-AS 2011/33, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence (Italy).
• “What Can the United States Learn from Europe?” Symposium on “Fixing a Broken Immigration System”, International Labor and Working-Class History 78(1), 2010, 1-3.
• “How Liberal are Citizenship Tests?” EUDO-Citizenship Forum (http://eudo-citizenship.eu/cit-forum), posted in January 2010.
• “How Liberal are Citizenship Tests: A Rejoinder” EUDO-Citizenship Forum (http://eudo-citizenship.eu/cit-forum), posted in February 2010.
• “The Vulnerability of Non-Citizens,” Perspectives on Europe 39(2), 2009, pp.18-21.
• “The Islamic Headscarf in Western Europe,” European Studies Forum 38(2), 2008, pp. 40-45.
• “Dual Citizenship and Transnationalism in Europe”, Canadian Diversity 6(4), 2008, pp.17-20.
• Policy Brief: “Do Obligatory Civic Integration Courses for Immigrants in Western Europe Further Integration?” Focus Migration (Hamburg Institute of International Economics, HWWI), no.8, October 2007, pp.1-7.
• “European Immigrant Integration in Change”, Canadian Diversity 5(1), 2006, 145-148.
• “Citizenship without Identity,” Canadian Diversity 3(2), 2004, 85-87.
• “Green Politics in the New Germany” (with Andy Markovits), Dissent, Spring 1994, 235-40.

BOOK CHAPTERS

• “European Immigration Policies: Still Between Stemming and Soliciting”, in: Paul Heywood, Erik Jones, Martin Rhodes, and Ulrich Sedelmeier, eds. Developments in European Politics 2. London: Macmillan-Palgrave 2011.
• “Immigration, Citizenship, and the Need for Integration”, in: Rogers Smith, ed. Citizenship, Borders, and Human Needs. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 2011.
• “Successes and Failures of Muslim Integration in France and Germany,” in: Jennifer Hochschild and John Mollenkopf, eds. Bringing Outsiders in: Transatlantic Perspectives on Immigrant Political Incorporation.. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press 2009.
• “Immigrants and Civic Integration in Western Europe”, in: Belonging? Diversity, Recognition and Shared Citizenship in Canada. Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy 2007.
• “Staatsbürgerschaft und kulturelle Differenz,” in: Karl-Siegbert Rehberg, ed. Soziale Ungleichheit—kulturelle Unterschiede. Verhandlungen des 32. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in München 2004. Frankfurt on Main: Campus, 2006.
• “Response to Saskia Sassen’s ‘The Repositioning of Citizenship and Alienage’”, in: Kate Tunstall, ed. Displacement, Asylum, Migration: Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2004. Oxford University Press 2006, pp.204-209, 334-335.
• “Citizenship,” in: Matthew Gibney and Randall Hansen, eds. Global Migration: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO 2005.
• “Primordial Beliefs and Immigration Policy: The Case of Britain’s Patrials”, in: J.Alexander, G.Marx, and C.Williams, eds. Self, Social Structure, and Beliefs: Explorations in Sociology. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004.
• “Commentary on Italy” in: W.Cornelius, P.Martin, and J.Hollifield, eds. Controlling Immigration (2nd edition; Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004).
• “Multicultural Citizenship in Germany,” in: John Stone and Rutledge Dennis, eds. Race and Ethnicity. New York: Blackwell, 2003.
• “European Immigration Policies at the Crossroads,” in: P.Heywood, E.Jones, and M.Rhodes, eds. Developments in West European Politics 2. London: Palgrave, 2002.
• “Integrating Immigrants in Liberal Nation-States: Policies and Practices” (with E.Morawska), in: Joppke and Morawska (2003).
• “Controlling a New Migration World” (with V.Guiraudon), in: Guiraudon and Joppke (2001).
• “Immigration,” International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (edited by Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes). New York: Pergamon, 2002.
• “Sovereignty and Citizenship in a World of Migration,” in: M.Likosky, ed. Transnational Legal Processes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2002 (originally: Butterworths).
• “The Rights of Aliens in Germany and the United States,” in: M.Berg and M.Geyer, eds. Two Cultures of Rights: Germany and the United States. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
• “The Evolution of Alien Rights in the United States, Germany, and the European Union,” in: T.A. Aleinikoff and D.Klusmeyer, eds. Citizenship: Comparisons and Perspectives. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution Press, 2001.
• “Mobilization of Culture and the Reform of Citizenship Law: Germany and the United States,” in: R.Koopmans and P.Statham, eds. Challenging the Politics of Ethnic Relations in Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
• “Kultur und der Wandel der Staatsbürgerschaft,” in: J.Gerhards (ed.)., Die Vermessung kultureller Unterschiede: Deutschland und die USA im Vergleich. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 2000.
• “International Migrations: Geography, Politics and Culture in Europe and Beyond” (with Rene Leboutte), in: R.Leboutte, ed. Migrations et migrants dans une perspective historique. Bruxelles: P.I.E-Peter Lang, 2000.
• “Multicultural Questions” (with S.Lukes), in: Joppke and Lukes (1999).
• “Immigration Challenges the Nation-State,” in: Joppke (1998).
• “Nuclear Energy Opposition,” in: R.Powers and W.Vogele, eds. Protest, Power and Change: An Encyclopedia of Nonviolent Action. New York: Garland Publishing, 1997, pp.374-377.

WORKING PAPERS

• “How Liberal Are Citizenship Tests” (edited by Rainer Bauböck and Christian Joppke), EUI Working Papers, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, RSCAS 2010/41, May 2010, 41 pages..
• “Nation-Building after World War II: Postcolonialism, Postcommunism, and Postfascism Compared,” EUI Working Paper SPS No.96/6, March 1996, 56 pages.

BOOK REVIEWS

Various book reviews in American Political Science Review, Contemporary Sociology, American Journal of Sociology, Kölner Zeitschrift fuer Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Ethnic and Racial Studies, International Migration Review, Political Science Quarterly, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, European Journal of Sociology, and other academic journals.

INVITED CONFERENCE PAPERS, SEMINARS, AND LECTURES (selection, since 2000):

• “Governance of Cultural Diversity”, discussion paper for Transatlantic Council on Migration meeting on “National Identity, Immigration and National Cohesion”, Berlin, 16-18 November 2011.
• “Rebirth of Christian Identity in Europe?” Presentation at plenary session, Annual Congress of the Swiss Sociological Association, Geneva, 6 September 2011.
• “Re-nationalizing citizenship in Europe”, talk at conference on “Migrant Labour: Contested Integration, Prospects for Citizenship”, Peace Institute (Ljubljana) and City University (London), Ljubljana, 15-16 September 2011.
• “Citizenship and Immigration”, lectures and seminars at 2011 Summer University, Central European University, Budapest, 4-9 July 2011.
• “Integration policies in Europe”, lecture and seminar at VII Summer School of International Migration, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, 27 June 2011.
• “Minority rights for immigrants?” key note address at conference on “Social Mobility and Migration”, European Academy, Bolzano (Italy), 21 June 2011.
• “EU citizenship and identity”, talk at conference on “EU Citizenship and the Market”, University College London (UCL), 17 June 2011.
• “Europeanization of New World Citizenship?” Lecture at the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed), Barcelona, 7 June 2011.
• “Limits of Restricting Islam: The French Burqa Law of 2010”, paper presented at conference on “Religious Norms and the Public Sphere” (organized by Olivier Roy), University of California at Berkeley, 6-7 May 2011.
• “Can Muslims Live in a Liberal Society?”, paper presented at the conference “Islam in Europe and America”, The Committee for the Study of Religion, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, 4-6 May 2011.
• “The Role of the Sending State and Society in Immigrant Integration”, analytic note presented at “Brainstorming Meeting on the Integration of Migrants”, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence (Italy).
• “The Retreat is Real—But What is the Alternative? Multiculturalism and the Limits of ‘Muscular’ Liberalism”, paper presented at conference on “The Political Incorporation of Immigrants” (organized by Irene Bloemraad, Jack Citrin, and Taeku Lee), University of California, Berkeley, 4-5 March 2011.
• Keynote speech on “Europe’s Changing Citizenship”, Konference on “Institutional and Life-Course Perspectives on Migration”, Hans Boeckler Stiftung and Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences, 20 January 2011, Bremen.
• “What can Israel learn from Europe?” talk at conference on “Immigration, Liberalism, and the Nation-State: Israel in a Global Perspective”, Interdisciplinary Center (ICDC) Herzliya (Israel), 30 October to 1 November 2010.
• “Citizenship between De- and Re-Nationalization”, talk at conference “Questioning Citizenship”, Goethe-Institute Athens, 15 October 2010.
• “The European Headscarf Battles”, paper presented at conference on “Jews and Muslims in France: The Challenge of Multiculturalism in Contemporary Europe”, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 15-17 March 2010.
• “Citizenship in Europe: De- Versus Re-Nationalization”, paper presented at “EUDO Observing European Democracy Launch Conference”, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, 3-4 December 2009.
• “European immigration policies between stemming and soliciting”, lecture within Institute for European Studies (IES) Autumn Lecture Series “Europe under Threat?” Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 25 November 2009.
• Public lecture, research seminar, and participation in a roundtable on the 10th anniversary of the German citizenship reform, Munck Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, 5-6 November 2009.
• “What Can the United States Learn From Europe?”, conference on “Fixing a Broken Immigration System: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Reform”, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., 22-23 October 2009.
• “Minority Rights for Immigrants: Multiculturalism versus Antidiscrimination”, conference on “Nation-State, Immigration and Cultural Pluralism”, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 18-19 September 2009.
• “Unity and Exclusion in the Liberal State: Through the Lens of the New Citizenship Tests”, conference on “The Politics of Social Cohesion”, Centre for the Study of Equality and Multiculturalism, University of Copenhagen, 9-12 September 2009
• “Immigrant integration policies and outcomes—Is model-thinking convincing in international comparisons?” A public discussion with Professor Ruud Koopmans, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, 30 June 2009.
• “Citizenship and Immigration: A View from the Comfort Zone”, lecture at Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences, 24 June 2009.
• “Unity in the Liberal State: Through the Lens of Citizenship”, IVth Galilee Colloquium on Social, Moral and Legal Philosophy, Kibbutz Kfar Blum (Israel), 11-14 June 2009.
• “The Lightening of Citizenship in the West”, International Conference on “Human Rights and Justice in Immigration”, Minerva Center for Human Rights, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 25-27 May 2009.
• “Tracks of Immigrant Political Incorporation”, presented at “Immigrant Political Incorporation Workshop III”, Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), Harvard University, 5-6 December 2008.
• “Liberalism and Muslim Integration,” workshop on “Liberalism, Secularism and Integration in Germany and Europe,” Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, 14 November 2008.
• “Civic integration to beat the parallel society?” Conference on “Constitution and Transformation of Public Spaces”, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, 9-11 October 2008.
• “Changes of citizenship in contemporary Europe,” workshop on “National Identities in Europe,” University of Bergen (Norway), 18 September 2008.
• “Concluding remarks,” Research Seminar, “Immigration and Citizenship Policies in the European Union,” CIDOB Foundation, Barcelona, 16 June 2008.
• “Spiegel der Identität: Das islamische Kopftuch in Westeuropa,” lecture at the Center for Comparative and International Studies, University of Zürich, 22 May 2008.
• “European research on migration and social cohesion,” talk at CO-REACH Social Science Conference, British Academy and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China, 15-17 May, 2008.
• “Immigration, Citizenship, and the Need for Integration,” paper presented at Conference on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constiutionalism (Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 9 May 2008.
• “Mirror of Identity: The Islamic Headscarf in Western Europe,” talk at Norface seminar on Religion, Public Culture, and the New Immigration, University of Aarhus (Denmark), 24-25 April 2008.
• “Causes of migration: Linking flows and policies”, presentation at the conference “Managing migration: the neglected face of globalization,” Goodenough College and 21st Century Trust, London, 4 April 2008.
• “Dual Citizenship and Transnationalism in Europe,” paper at Metropolis Presents “Divided Loyalties? Transnationalism and the Meaning of Citizenship in the 21st Century”, National Library, Ottawa (Ontario), 10 December 2007; followed by two closed-door meetings with Canadian policy-makers and -advisors, 10 and 11 December.
• “Faith and Social Cohesion,” 12th International Metropolis Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 8-12 October 2007.
• “Multiculturalism and Social Citizenship: A European Perspective,” Queen’s International Institute on Social Policy 2007, Queen’s University, Kingston (Ontario), 20-22 August 2007.
• Invited lecturer at SIAS Summer Institute on Citizenship and Migration (organized by David Miller, Nuffield College, Oxford and Eannon Callon, Stanford University), Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg), Berlin, 28-29 June 2007.
• “Transformation of Immigrant Integration in Western Europe,” University of Bristol, 21 June 2007.
• “Civic Integration Policies for Immigrants in Western Europe,” University of Braga (Portugal), 15-16 June 2007.
• “Integrating Migrants of Muslim Origin in Europe,” Cicero Foundation, Paris, 14 June 2007.
• “Immigration and the ‘Identity’ of Citizenship,” Holberg Workshop in Honor of Prof. S.N.Eisenstadt, “Collective Identities, States and Globalization”, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 10-11 June 2007.
• “Immigrant Integration in Europe”, lecture at Hansung University, Seoul, 4 June 2007.
• “Limits of Integration Policy: Britain and her Muslims”, conference on “Muslims and the State in the Post-9/11 West”, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, 20-21 April 2007.
• “Comparative Citizenship: A Restrictive Turn in Europe?” international conference on “Demography and Human Rights”, Human Rights Program, Ramat Gan Law School, Tel Aviv, 12-14 January 2007.
• “Beyond National Models: Civic Integration Policies for Immigrants in Western Europe,” University of Sussex (UK), 8 November 2006.
• Keynote speaker at European Science Foundation Workshop “Collective Identities in a Uniting Europe”, Delphi (Greece), 26 August 2006.
• “State Neutrality and Anti-Veiling Laws in France and Germany,” seminar at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 6 April 2006
• Invited commentator, “Expert Meeting on Methodologies of International Comparative Research in the field of Migration and Incorporation Policies,” Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 7 and 8 April 2006
• “The transformation of immigrant integration in Western Europe,” seminar at Institut de Sociologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 16 March 2006.
• “Toward a Multicultural Europe? A Social Science Perspective,” lecture at Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), 15 March 2006
• “European Immigrant Integration,” talk at The Nixon Center, Washington, D.C., 18 January 2006
• “Scientific leader” at EU training seminar on “Politiques d’intégration, La vision des pays tiers méditerranéens”, Tunis (Tunesia),12-15 December 2005 (organized by Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Florence, and European Commission, Brussels).
• “Institutional Responses to Cultural Diversity,” Research Initiative “Social Integration and Personal Identity Formation in Culturally Heterogeneous Societies,” Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, 4 and 5 November 2005, Berlin.
• “Convergent Trends in Immigrant Integration in Western Europe: The Case of ‘Civic Integration’”, Conference “The Art of the State III: Diversity and Canada’s Future”, Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP, Montreal), Montebello (Quebec), 13-15 October 2005.
• “Ambiguous state neutrality: The Muslim veil in the judicialized politics of France and Germany,” paper at conference on “Migration, Religion and Secularism”, University of Paris 1 (Sorbonne) and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, 17-18 June 2005
• Participation in “Progressive Governance Seminar: Migration, Integration and Diversity”, Government of Canada, Toronto, 19 May 2005
• “Migration and Membership,” Roundtable on “Theoretical Problems in Migration Studies,” School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, 6 May 2005
• “State Neutrality and Muslim Immigrants in Europe: Policy and Legal Issues,” paper at conference on “Immigrant Political Incorporation,” Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 22-23 April 2005
• “Citizenship and Cities: A Critique,” lecture within the series “Living Out the Metropolis,” St.John’s College, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 24 January 2005.
• “Muslims and the Veil: Recent Developments in Germany and France,” lecture at Center for West European Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, 14 May 2004.
• “The Retreat of Multiculturalism in the Liberal State,” 14th International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, Ill., March 11-13, 2004.
• “Illegal Migration: Concept and Reality,” presented in Workshop on “Illegal Migration and Globalization,” Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia, 20-31 January 2004.
• “Citizenship between De- and Re-Ethnicization,” Conference “Migration-Citizenship-Ethnos,” Munck Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, 2-4 October 2003.
• Invited talks on recently completed book manuscript on ethnic migration at Columbia University (Department of Political Science), New York University (Department of Sociology), New School University (Graduate Faculty), New York, March to May, 2003.
• “The Revaluation of Citizenship in Europe,” Conference “Unity and Diversity: European and Canadian Debates,” Institute for European Studies, Université de Montreal and McGill University, Montreal, 27-28 September 2002.
• “The Politics of Recognition in the Multicultural State,” invited paper at Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, August 2002.
• “Authors Meet Readers: Neil J.Smelser,” XV World Congress of Sociology, Brisbane (Australia), 7-13 July 2002.
• “Einwanderungspolitiken aus wissenssoziologischer Perspektive,” Conference “Neue Perspektiven der Wissenssoziologie” (organized by Sektion Wissenssoziologie in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie), University of Konstanz, 20-22 June 2002.
• “Comments on Italy,” Conference “Controlling Immigration: A Global Perspective,” Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC San Diego, 17-18 May 2002.
• Invited talks at Yale University, University of Minnesota, UCLA, University of California at San Diego, November 2001.
• “Decolonization and Immigration in Europe,” conference on The Legacies of Colonization and Decolonization in Europe and the Americas, University of Paris 1 (Sorbonne), 22-23 May 2001.
• “The EU Policy on Migration,” seminar at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (Switzerland), 11 May 2001.
• “Courts and Immigrant Rights,” Conference on Explaining Changes in Migration Policy, University of Geneva, 27-28 October 2000.
• “Immigration and Asylum Policy in Europe,” seminar at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, 16 May 2000.
  

EDITORIAL BOARDS AND OTHER INVITED MEMBERSHIPS

Corresponding Editor, Theory and Society (since 2011); Advisory Editor, International Migration Review (since 2001); Society for Comparative Studies (Yale University, since 2001); Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California at San Diego (2001-2004).

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

• ECPR 5th Pan-European Conference on EU Politics (Porto, 24-25 June 2010), Section leader on “immigration, migration and asylum”.
• Organizer of Symposium “How Europeans see America and how Americans see Europe,” with Claus Offe, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin; Desmond King, Nuffield College, Oxford, and John Torpey, CUNY-Graduate Center, New York. American University of Paris, 19 May 2008.
• Organizer of 5th Annual President’s Conference for the Advancement of Scholarship, “Migration and Governance in the 21st Century,” American University of Paris, 23 May 2007.
• Organizer of Panel on “Migration and Social Justice,” Graduate School of Social Sciences (GSSS) Conference on Social Justice, University of Bremen, 10-12 March 2005.
• Organizer of Thematic Panel on “Citizenship and Identity in Unifying Europe,” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 2004.
• Discussant at 5th Annual Graduate Student Retreat of the Society for Comparative Research, Princeton University, 9-10 May 2003.
• Co-Director (with Rene Leboutte) of the 1997/98 European Forum on International Migrations, European University Institute, Florence
• “The Politics of Immigration,” 2-part Workshop, 14 and 15 December 1995, and 18 and 19 January 1996, European University Institute, Florence
• “Multiculturalism, Minorities and Citizenship” (co-organizers: Steven Lukes, EUI, and Tony Judt, New York University), Conference within the 1995/6 European Forum on Citizenship, 12-18 April 1996, European University Institute, Florence

TV APPEARANCES

• France 24, “Face-Off” with Melissa Bell on “France: No asylum for refugees?” 3 June 2009, Paris.
• Danish National TV (DR 2), interview on the European “Burka” debates, in “Deadline” (daily evening news show), 22 January 2010 (via satellite from Paris).
• Servus TV (Salzburg, Austria), Talk im Hangar-7, evening talk show on the topic “What are the effects of globalization and migration?”, with Roland Robertson (Aberdeen), Dietrich Thraenhardt (Muenster), and Kurt Luger (Salzburg); broadcast on 18 March 2010 (21:15-22:45).
• France 24, “Focus” on “Government memo sparks further controversy over the Roma”, 13 September 2010, Paris
• France 24, “Politics” with Marc Perelman on “Marine le Pen: Trouble for Sarkozy?” 16 December 2010.
• Danish National TV (DR 2), telephone interview on the French 2010 burqa law in “Deadline” (daily evening news show), 12 April 2011.

NEWSPAPER INTERVIEWS

“Europe’s problem with the veil”, interview conducted by David Tresilian, Al-Ahram (a weekly online, Cairo) no.1021, 28 October-3 November 2010.

ACADEMIC REFEREE

Journals: American Political Science Review, World Politics, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, British Journal of Sociology, European Journal of International Relations, European Journal of Political Research, Journal of European Social Policy, European Societies, International Migration Review, Journal of Public Policy, Ethnicities, Citizenship Studies, Global Networks, Journal of Intercultural Studies, European Sociological Review, International Journal of Multicultural Societies, Perspectives on Politics, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Ethics and International Affairs, Sociological Quarterly, Social Forces, Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Berliner Journal fuer Soziologie, Political Research Quarterly, Political Studies, Ethnoscapes, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, European Union Politics, Theory and Society, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Social Problems, Journal of Human Rights, Law and Society Review; Interventions, Perspectives: Central European Review of International Relations, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, German Politics, Sociological Theory, Government and Opposition, Patterns of Prejudice, International Migration, Current Sociology, Comparative European Politics, Politique et Sociétés, International Sociology, Qualitative Sociology, Scandinavian Political Studies, Journal of Policy History, Politics and Gender, Journal of Common Market Studies.

Presses: Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Penn State Press, Routledge, University of Minnesota Press, Harvard University Press, Temple University Press; University of California Press, Princeton University Press, Palgrave-Macmillan, Duke University Press, Amsterdam University Press (IMISCOE), Zed Books (London), University of Michigan Press, Polity Press.

Foundations: National Science Foundation (Washington, D.C.); MacArthur Foundation; Swedish Research Council; Austrian Science Fund; European Science Foundation; Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), Social Science Board; Israel Science Foundation; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC); Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC, UK); The German Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (G.I.F.); Norface; Vienna Science and Technology Fund; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG); Schweizerischer Nationalfonds

External evaluation of faculty recruitment: University of Bristol (Chair in sociology), 2005; Universitaet Goettingen (W1 professorship in Sociology), 2005

Tenure file and promotion evaluations: University of California, Irvine (UCI) and Los Angeles (UCLA) campuses; University of Victoria (Canada); City University of New York (CUNY), Graduate Center; University of Notre Dame; University of Toronto; Hebrew University, Jerusalem; The Open University of Israel; Trinity College Dublin; Georgetown University, Brown University.

TEACHING

University of Southern California:

• social theory (classical and modern, graduate and undergraduate),
• political sociology,
• social institutions,
• collective action and social movements
• social problems.

European University Institute (all graduate level):

• Nations and Nationalism (1994/5);
• Challenges to the Nation-State: Regionalism, Globalization, Migrations (1995/6); International Migrations (1996/7);
• European Forum seminar on International Migrations (1997/8);
• Sociology of the State (1998/9);
• Stateness in the European Union (1999);
• Macrosociology (1999/2000);
• Critical Issues in International Migration (2000);
• Ethnicity and Immigration (2000/2001);
• Comparative Political Sociology (2001);
• Citizenship, Ethnicity, and Immigration (2001/2002);
• Sociological Theory (2002).

University of British Columbia:

• Foundations of Social Thought (2003; graduate level);
• Political Sociology (2004);
• Contemporary Sociological Theory (2004)

International University Bremen (all undergraduate):

• Social Structure and Social Processes (2004);
• Political Participation and Social Movements (2005 and 2006);
• Culture and Society (2005)

American University of Paris:

• The Politics of European Integration (2006) (undergraduate)
• Political Sociology of Europe (2008) (undergraduate)
• Migration, Ethnicity, and Citizenship (spring 2007) (graduate)
• Civil Society: International and Comparative Perspectives (recurrent, graduate)
• Comparative Politics (recurrent, graduate)
• Migration, Law, and Public Policy (recurrent, graduate)
• Cultural Diversity and Integration (recurrent, graduate)

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

political sociology; sociology of culture; integration of modern societies; religion; ethnicity, race, and nationalism; citizenship and immigration; theories of the state; collective action and social movements; political and social theory.