Cargando…
Logics and Politics of Post-WWII Migration to Western Europe.
Few phenomena have been more disruptive to West European politics and society than the accumulative experience of post-WWII immigration. Against this backdrop spring two questions: Why have the immigrant-receiving states historically permitted high levels of immigration? To what degree can the socia...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface and Acknowledgments; The Logics and Politics of Post-WWII Migration to Western Europe; 1 Introduction: Immigration and State Sovereignty; Framing the core puzzles of post-wwii immigration; Overview and argument; Linking immigration and state sovereignty; Policy challenges posed by post-wwii immigration; Challenge of Unwanted Immigration; Challenge of a Contested Domestic Immigration Policy; Challenge from Anti-Immigrant Groups; Challenge of Immigrant Political Incorporation; Plan of the book.
- 2 The Origins and Trajectory of Post-WWII ImmigrationThree waves of postwar immigration; First Wave: Labor Immigration and the Postwar Economy (1945-79); Seasonal Immigration; Second Wave: Secondary Immigration and Permanent Settlement (1973-2007); Third Wave: Irregular and Forced Immigration (1989-2007); Irregular Immigration; "Crisis" of Asylees and Refugees; Postwar immigration as a coherent phenomenon; Securitization of immigration and its emergence as a meta-issue; Conclusion: immigration's shifting benefits and costs; 3 The Organized Nativist Backlash: The Surge of Anti-Immigrant Groups.
- The phenomenon of anti-immigrant groupsA Brief Survey; Varied Orientations, Forms, and Strategies of Anti-Immigrant Groups; Generic Groups; Neo-Fascist Groups; Opportunistic Right; New Radical Right; Ethnonational Right; The logic of anti-immigrant groups; Filling a Unique Niche within the Domestic Political Marketplace; Violating the Conspiracy of Silence; Immigrants as a Perceived Threat; Anti-Immigrant Sentiment and Unemployment; Size of the Foreign Population; Subjective versus Objective Opposition; Anti-Immigrant Groups as a Post-1980 Phenomenon; Definition and Acceleration of Threat.
- Role of Mainstream PartiesRole of Anti-Immigrant Groups; Embeddedness and political influence of anti-immigrant groups; Distribution along the Axes of Longevity and Commitment; Case of the French FN; Conclusions; 4 Immigration and State Sovereignty: Implications of the British and German Cases; The dilemma; Liberal State Model; Embedded Realist Thesis; Globalization Thesis; Path-Dependent Thesis; Political Institutional Thesis; British case; Origins of the British Experience with Post-WWII Immigration; Enigma of Restricting New Commonwealth Immigration.
- Populist Reaction to New Commonwealth ImmigrationMainstream Political Response; Losing Control?; Changing Course?; Assessing the Post-WWII Record; German case; Origins of the German Experience with Post-WWII Immigration; Turning Point and Its Effects; Asylum State?; Asylum Crisis Adjourned?; Aussiedler Dilemma; Aussiedler Dilemma Adjourned?; De Jure Country of Immigration?; Assessing the Post-WWII Record; Implications; 5 The Logics and Politics of a European Immigration Policy Regime; Trends in interstate policy cooperation; Intergovernmental Policy Agreements, 1985-2005.