Of States, Rights, and Social Closure: Governing Migration and Citizenship

by Oliver Schmidtke, Saime Ozcurumez

Overview

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?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230600317
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	04/09/2008
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	307
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Oliver Schmidtke is Professor of Political Science at the University of Victoria. Saime Ozcurumez is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the McGill Institute.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Saime Ozcurumez and Oliver Schmidtke * PART I: THE DEBATE ON THE 'LIBERAL PARADOX': OF STATES, RIGHTS AND SOCIAL CLOSURE * Who Belongs? Immigration, Democracy, and Citizenship - Joe Carens * Discrimination and Non-Citizens - Donald Galloway * National Sovereignty, Migration, and the Tenuous Hold of International Legality - Jeremey Webber * Borders in a 'Post-National' Age: Changing Modes of Inclusion and Exclusion in European Societies - Oliver Schmidtke * PART II: LIMITS OF A GOVERNING MIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP * Migration and Belonging: Challenging the Inclusiveness of the National Welfare State - Michael Bommes * We Are All 'Republican' Now: The Change, Prospects, and Limits of Citizenship - Thomas Faist * The Emerging Migration State: Empirical Evidence from the United States - James Hollifield * Limits of Immigration and Integration Reform: The Terms of Debate - Imke Kruse * Citizenship as a Flexible Asset - Dietrich Thraenhardt * PART III: BY NATIONS BEYOND NATIONS? POLITICS OF EUROPEAN UNION IMMIGRATION POLICY * The European Union's Evolving Migration and Asylum Policies - Andrew Geddes * Trans-Nationalism, the European Space, and the State - Riva Kastoryano * What Is Happening to Immigration Politics, and Who Benefits? - Ruud Koopmanns * Governing Immigration Policy in Europe:  Do New Levels Bring in New Actors? - Saime Ozcurumez

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