The Citizen and the Alien: Dilemmas of Contemporary Membership
Book by Linda Bosniak, Rutgers School of Law
Reviewed by Amada Armenta, University of California, Los Angeles; and Roger Waldinger, University of California, Los Angeles
Spring 2009
Amada Armenta, Professor of Sociology at University of Pennsylvania, and Roger Waldinger, Professor of Sociology at University of California, Los Angeles, review The Citizen and the Alien: Dilemmas of Contemporary Membership. The book is about the competing ideas of nationalism and transnationalism as well as opposing terms citizen and alien. It asks difficult questions about membership that may not have clear answers, but it is useful in that it forces students to grapple with these difficult questions.
Read the book review at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-7379.2008.01155.x.