Exit, like entry, has helped define citizenship over the last two centuries, yet little attention has been given to the politics of emigration. How have countries impeded or facilitated people leaving? How have they perceived and regulated those who leave? What relations do they seek to maintain with their citizens abroad and why? Citizenship and Those Who Leave reverses the immigration perspective to examine how nations define themselves not just through entry but through exit as well.

| Contents Preface Donna R. Gabaccia and Leslie Page Moch Acknowledgments Introduction Nancy L. Green and Fran¿ois Weil Part I: Freedom of Movement 1. Leaving: A Comparative View John Torpey 2. The Exit Revolution Aristide R. Zolberg Part II: Nation-Building and the Administrative Framework 3. Emigration and Nation-Building during the Mass Migrations from Europe Donna R. Gabaccia, Dirk Hoerder, and Adam Walaszek 4. The Liberal Italian State and Mass Emigration, 1860-1914 Caroline Douki 5. The French State and Transoceanic Emigration Fran¿ois Weil Part III: The Costs of Emigration 6. Emigration and the British State, c. 1815-1925 David Feldman and M. Page Baldwin 7. Holland beyond the Borders: Emigration and the Dutch State, 1850-1940 Corrie van Eijl and Leo Lucassen 8. From Economics to Ethnicity and Back: Reflections on Emigration Control in Germany, 1800-2000 Andreas Fahrmeir Part IV: Borders and Links 9. The United States Government and the Investigation of European Emigration in the Open Door Era Dorothee Schneider 10. Migration and National Consciousness: The Canadian Case Bruno Ramirez 11. Migration Policy and the Asymmetry of Power: The Mexican Case, 1900-2000 Jorg¿ Durand Part V: Naming Emigrants 12. The "Overseas Chinese": The State and Emigration from the 1890s through the 1990s Carine Pina-Guerassimoff and Eric Guerassimoff 13. Tracing the Genesis of Brain Drain in India through State Policy and Civil Society Binod Khadria 14. Israeli Emigration Policy Steven J. Gold Contributors Index |

"Groundbreaking. . . . A new perspective on migration."—Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare

"These articles taken together provide excellent historical documentation but also a gentle prodding to change the way much migration is talked about and even researched."—Journal of Anthropological Research

"This volume reminds us that for most of the modern period and in a greater number of places, exodus, rather than entry, was the crucial issue, that a larger population has been perceived more often as a blessing than as a problem. The editors assemble a list of international scholars that reads like a 'who's who' of migration studies, and in every case, the quality of the contributions matches the reputation of the contributors."—Jose C. Moya, author of Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930
|Nancy L. Green and François Weil are professors of history at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Green is the author of The Limits of Transnationalism and Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work: A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York. Weil is the author of A History of New York and Family Trees: A History of Genealogy in America.