Citizenship – Ethnos – Multiculturalism

This conference is a follow-up meeting to the two transatlantic conferences held in Toronto in October 2003 and in Berlin in June 2004. While both earlier conferences had focused primarily on German and European conditions, this conference will address the North American situation in greater detail. First, basic issues in North American migration shall be presented and analysed at large, sketching how it has evolved since 1945 and focusing on new developments since the early 1980’s. Secondly, it will be looked at the ways in which the citizenship debate has proceeded and how the problem of citizenship, in relation to immigration, has been dealt with in Canada and the United States.