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Book Review: Going West: Soviet Jewish Immigrants in Berlin since 1990

On occasion, a book is so clumsily organized and so badly written as to leave the reviewer wondering what the author, editor, publisher, and their colleagues and advisors thought they were accomplishing by releasing it. The ExclusiveEuropean Citizenship is clearly such a text. To list the types of grammatical and syntactical errors in this book would exhaust the space for this review. Word choice seems dictated by a thesaurus and the punctuation has a cerrain random quality to it. Even cliches are mangled. It is not instructive to write sentences that read "The Member States are caught as children, indecisive about having to decide between two badS' (p. 163). It is difficult to figure out who is responsible for encouraging the author and the press to publish the book in this form. The author makes no acknowledgements and the book is dedicated "For Jackie and for myself." The book's goal is admirable: to examine "the implications and consequences, in terms of membership status and citizen rights, of the developments of integration and community building in the European Union for legally settled foreigners (p. 6)." The chapters plod through a discussion of the history and theory of European citizenship, descriptions of citizens' and noncitizens' rights in individual countries and in Europe, and a history of migration and migration policy.The author demonstrates a familiarity with a wide range of issues but has little that is original to say.The theoretical reference points of the book are Thomas Hammar's discussion of the "entrance gates" that migrants pass through on their way to citizenship and T. H. Marshall's discussion of civil, political and social rights. The author's conclusions are paradoxical. On the one hand he regrets "that citizenship rights in European law have not become evermore encompassing and equal (p, 124)." On the other, he is worried that European citizenship will "have the implication of increasing the marginalization and regulation against equal opportunities for non-Elf citizens" who can not enjoy them (p. 152). In sum, he fears a Fortress Europe that fails to protect and augment the rights of both those whom it includes and those it excludes. The factual chapters recounting European Community decisions and the history of migration are the best in the book. However, those interested in the most recent developments will have to look elsewhere, since the coverage stopS in 1994. The book is loosely written and occasionally succumbs to a heavy-handed moralizing. Had the book been more clearly argued and less repetitious, it could have shed at least one-fourth of its 180 pages. The lack of an index does not make the argument any easier to follow. The author raises some intriguing questions regarding what factors might shape the evolution of European citizenship and has some trenchant criticism of the Euro-optimists. He also advances some innovative proposals, drawn from the work of community officials and parliamentarians, regarding how to broaden European citizenship to provide rights for noncitizens. It would be interesting to see if in another forum the author could more fully and persuasively develop these arguments.