Of States, Rights, and Social Closure Governing Migration and Citizenship
by Schmidtke, Oliver; Ozcurumez, SaimeFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 12/15/2007
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary
Increased levels of immigration sparked scholary and public debate about its consequences for immigrants, liberal democracies, sovereignty and rights in both Europe and North America. This book addresses questions such as: Do nation-states act to facilitate or limit immigration and integration, how and why? How do nation-states themselves transform in understanding and interpreting rights respond to immigration? Does the European Union make a difference in terms of how immigrants are perceived or how they act as stakeholders in liberal democracies?Through a collection of rich theoretical and empirical contributions diverse and intriguing responses are provided with case studies from Europe and North America.
Author Biography
Oliver Schmidtke is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Political Science and History at the University of Victoria. He also holds the Jean research Chair in European History and Politics and is the director of the European Studies Program at the University of Victoria. His reserach interests are in the areas of European integration, migration, citizenship, nationalism, populism, and right-wing politics.
Saime Ozcurumez is a visiting Assistant Professor at Bilkent University, Ankara. She teaches and publishes on policy and politics of immigration in Europe, Europeanization of immigration policy in Turkey and diversity and health care in Canada.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| The Debate on The 'liberal Paradox': of States, Rights and Social Closure | |
| Who Belongs? Immigration, Democracy, and Citizenship | |
| Discrimination and Non-Citizens | |
| National Sovereignty, Migration, and the Tenuous Hold of International Legality | |
| Borders in a 'Post-National' Age: Changing Modes of Inclusion and Exclusion in European Societies | |
| Limits of a Governing Migration and Citizenship | |
| Migration and Belonging: Challenging the Inclusiveness of the National Welfare State | |
| We Are All 'Republican' Now: The Change, Prospects, and Limits of Citizenship | |
| The Emerging Migration State: Empirical Evidence from the United States | |
| Limits of Immigration and Integration Reform: The Terms of Debate | |
| Citizenship as a Flexible Asset | |
| By Nations Beyond Nations? Politics of European Union Immigration Policy | |
| The European Union's Evolving Migration and Asylum Policies | |
| Trans-Nationalism, the European Space, and the State | |
| What Is Happening tonbsp;Immigration Politics, and Who Benefits? | |
| Governing Immigration Policy in Europe:nbsp; Do New Levels Bring in New Actors? | |
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