The International Politics of Migration: Interstate Relations and the Peoples Who Cross Borders

by Masayuki Tadokoro

Overview

This open access book discusses the impact of cross-border migration on the relationships between sovereign states. While there is already a vast amount of literature on immigration, it often focuses on issues such as human rights, citizenship, and social integration, reflecting the contemporary interests of Western countries. However, as long as the most fundamental norm of international politics remains the mutual recognition of exclusive jurisdictional rights over territory by sovereign states, people crossing borders pose various challenges to this system of sovereign states. It is this awareness of the issue that makes this book unique.

This book examines the implications of the movement of people across national borders both for the state and for international politics. From the standpoint of international politics, the focus of the examination is the international political meaning of the transnational phenomenon of the movement of people. This is an interest that extends from the study of international political economy, which questions the significance for international politics of the transnational phenomena of international trade and international finance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789819604210
Publisher:	Springer Nature Singapore
Publication date:	02/25/2025
Pages:	283
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Tadokoro Masayuki is specially appointed Professor of international relations at the International University of Japan, and Professor emeritus of Keiō University in Tokyo. Born in Osaka in 1956, he received his doctorate in law from Kyoto University. He was Professor at the National Defense Academy and Keiō University before assuming his current post in 2022. He also attended the London School of Economics. In 1988-1989, he stayed in Washington D.C. as Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, and in 1991 he taught for a semester as Fulbright Scholar in Residence at the University of Pittsburgh. His primary field of expertise is international political economy, but he works also on Japanese foreign and security policy.

Table of Contents

Introduction: International Politics of Migration The Issues and Basic Facts.- Chapter 1 Policy of Population Movement and Foreign Relations.- Chapter 2 The Limits of Policy—Irregular Population Movement.- Chapter 3 The State and its Membership.- Chapter 4 Inclusion and Reproduction of Members.- Chapter 5 Overseas Compatriots and the State.- Chapter 6 International Population Movement: What it Means for Japan.- Addendum.- Citations and Reference Works.- Index.- Index of Names and Places.