Dialogues on migration policy /

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Imprint:Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, ©2006.
Description:1 online resource (viii, 260 pages) : illustrations.
Language:English
Series:Program in migration and refugee studies
Program in migration and refugee studies.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11403332
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Other authors / contributors:Giugni, Marco.
Passy, Florence.
ISBN:9780739154205
0739154206
0739110977
9780739110973
0739110985
9780739110980
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-244) and index.
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Summary:Dialogues on Migration Policy brings together leading American and European scholars of immigration politics to address migration policy. Editors Marco Giugni and Florence Passy's aim to present a number of informed 'dialogues' addressing three main theoretical concerns in this field: the role of the national state in a globalizing world, the determinants of policy change, and the role of collective interests in migration policy.
Other form:Print version: Dialogues on migration policy. Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, ©2006
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : four dialogues on migration policy / Marco Giugni and Florence Passy
  • Scope : global or national?
  • Social relations on a global scale : the implications for human rights and for democracy / David Jacobson and Galya Benarieh Ruffer
  • The nation-centered perspective / Adrian Favell
  • Commentary / Saskia Sassen
  • Determinants : economy or politics?
  • Economy versus the people? Swiss immigration policy between economic demand, xenophobia, and international constraint / Etienne Piguet
  • Immigrants, markets, and the American state : the political economy of U.S. immigration / James Hollifield, Valerie F. Hunt, and Daniel J. Tichenor
  • Commentary / Gary Freeman
  • Determinants: ethnicity or political channeling?
  • The nature of ethnicity in the project of migration / John Rex
  • Institutions, political opportunity structures, and the shaping of migration policies in Western Europe / Patrick Ireland
  • Commentary / Paul Statham
  • Influence : members or challengers?
  • Influencing migration policy from inside : political parties / Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos and Andrej Zaslove
  • Influencing policy from outside : the impact of migrant, extreme-right, and solidarity movements / Marco Giugni and Florence Passy
  • Commentary / Hanspeter Kriesi.