Anthony M. Messina

West European Immigration and Immigrant Policy in the New Century (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Few, if any phenomena affecting Western Europe as a whole since 1945 have been more far-reaching in their immediate effects or more potentially destabilizing to politics and society over the long term than the accumulative experience of immigration. Messina and his contributors analyze why the major immigrant-receiving states of Western Europe historically permitted and often abetted relatively high levels of postwar migration, and they assess how contemporary governments attempt to govern immigration flows and manage the domestic social and political fallout which it inevitably yields.

The central purpose of the volume is to address these questions within the context of the decision-making logics that have demonstratively governed postwar migration to Western Europe in each of its three distinct, but interrelated waves or phases-labor migration, family migration, and humanitarian or forced migration. Messina demonstrates that postwar migration to Western Europe, in all of its phases, has been governed by a set of mutually reinforcing and mostly compatible logics. Of these-the economic, the humanitarian, and the political-the political has predominated over time and is likely to continue doing so into the indefinite future. A major cross-disciplinary analysis that will appeal to political scientists, sociologists, and general researchers and scholars of ethnicity, race relations, and comparative public policy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313014147
• Artikelnr.: 37809759

Autorenporträt

ANTHONY M. MESSINA is Associate Professor at The Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame. Professor Messina has written extensively on ethnic minorites, including his co-edited Ethnic and Racial Minorities in Advanced Industrial Democracies (Greenwood Press, 1992).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction, by Anthony M. Messina The Politics of State
Immigration Policy Continuity and Change in Postwar French Legalization
Policy by Mark J. Miller State Responses to Refugees and Asylum Seekers in
Europe by Gil Loescher Mass Migration to Europe: Demographic Salvation,
Essential Labor, or Unwanted Foreigners? by D.A. Coleman Winners and
Losers: Politics and the Costs and Benefits of Migration by Gary P. Freeman
The Logics and Politics of a European Immigration Regime by Anthony M.
Messina and Colleen V. Thoyez The Economic, Political, and Social
Determinants of Immigrant Incorporation New and Old Immigrant Minorities in
Western Europe: The Challenge of Incorporation by Barbara Schmitter Heisler
Do Immigrant Entrepreneurs Play the Game of Ethnic Musical Chairs? A
Critique of Waldinger's Model of Immigrant Incorporation by Jan Rath
Cultural Minority Rights in Public Education: Religious and Language
Instruction for Immigrant Communities in Western Europe by Rainer Bauböck
Immigrant Minorities in Europe: A Melting Pot in the Making? by Alec G.
Hargreaves Conclusions by Anthony M. Messina References Index