Demonizing Dual Citizens

“A year after Samuel Huntington’s book “Who Are We?’” portrayed Hispanic immigrants as the greatest threat to U.S. national unity, Stanley Renshon has written a book that is likely to once again stir up suspicions toward the foreign-born — particularly those who have gone a step further by becoming naturalized citizens while maintaining citizenship in their countries of origin.

In “The 50 Percent American: Immigration and National Identity in an Age of Terror” (Georgetown University Press), Renshon, a professor of political science at the City University of New York, argues that dual citizens have a “shallower attachment to the American national community.””

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