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Christian Joppke

Christian Joppke

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Political Science
Switzerland
2026
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Law and Political Science
Switzerland
2022

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Political Science

D-Index
52
Citations
17025
World Ranking
198
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Christian Joppke is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland. Their research predominantly lies within the social sciences, focusing extensively on political science and international relations, as well as sociology and political science, law, and demography.

Their research topics include migration, refugees, and integration; populism and right-wing movements; social policy and reform studies; European Union policy and governance; Turkey's politics and society; diaspora, migration, and transnational identity; and migration and labor dynamics.

Christian Joppke's recent papers include:

  • Immigration in the populist crucible: comparing Brexit and Trump (2020, Comparative Migration Studies)
  • Nationalism in the neoliberal order: Old wine in new bottles? (2021, Nations and Nationalism)
  • Neoliberal nationalism and immigration policy (2024, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies)
  • Earned Citizenship (2021, European Journal of Sociology)
  • Populism and the double liberalism: exploring the links (2021, Theory and Society)

Their work has been published frequently in venues such as the European Journal of Sociology, British Journal of Sociology, Comparative Migration Studies, Nations and Nationalism, and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

They have collaborated frequently with co-authors including Dimitry Kochenov, Kristin Surak, Luuk van der Baaren, Peter J. Spiro, and Petra Weingerl.

Christian Joppke has also contributed to book publications through Cambridge University Press, authoring titles such as Neoliberal Nationalism (2020) and Citizenship and Residence Sales (2023).

Best Publications

  • Immigration and the Nation-State: The United States, Germany, and Great Britain

    Christian Joppke

  • The retreat of multiculturalism in the liberal state: Theory and policy

    Christian Joppke

  • Beyond national models: Civic integration policies for immigrants in Western Europe

    Christian Joppke

  • Why Liberal States Accept Unwanted Immigration

    Christian Joppke

  • Selecting by Origin: Ethnic Migration in the Liberal State

    Christian Joppke

  • Transformation of Citizenship: Status, Rights, Identity

    Christian Joppke

  • Toward Assimilation and Citizenship : Immigrants in Liberal Nation-States

    Christian Joppke;Ewa T. Morawska

  • How immigration is changing citizenship: a comparative view

    Christian Joppke

  • Controlling a new migration world

    Virginie Guiraudon;Christian Joppke

  • Integrating Immigrants in Liberal Nation-States: Policies and Practices

    Christian Joppke;Ewa Morawska

  • Transformation of Immigrant Integration: Civic Integration and Antidiscrimination in the Netherlands, France, and Germany

    Christian Joppke

  • Multiculturalism and immigration: A comparison of the United States, Germany, and Great Britain

    Christian Joppke

  • Citizenship between De- and Re-Ethnicization

    Christian Joppke

  • Challenge to the Nation-State : immigration in Western Europe and the United States

    Christian Joppke

  • Challenge to the Nation-State

    Christian Joppke

  • Immigration Challenges the Nation‐State

    Christian Joppke

  • Asylum and State Sovereignty: A Comparison of the United States, Germany, and Britain

    Christian Joppke

  • East German Dissidents and the Revolution of 1989: Social Movement in a Leninist Regime

    Christian Joppke

  • The Legal-Domestic Sources of Immigrant Rights - the United States, Germany, and the European Union

    Christian Joppke

  • Immigration and the identity of citizenship: the paradox of universalism

    Christian Joppke

  • Immigration and the Nation-State

    Christian Joppke

  • Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe

    Christian Joppke

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Faist
Thomas Faist Bielefeld University
Rainer Bauböck
Rainer Bauböck European University Institute
Marco Martiniello
Marco Martiniello University of Liège

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