Managing Migration : Civic Stratification and Migrants Rights

ISBN-13: 9780415167079 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 192 str.

Lydia Morris

Opis

Nation states now increasingly have to cope with large numbers of non-citizens living within their borders. This has largely been understood in terms of the decline of the nation state or of increasing globalization, but in Managing Migration Lydia Morris argues that it throws up more complex questions. In the context of the European Union the terms of debate about immigration, legislation governing entry, and the practice of regulation reveal a set of competing concerns, including: anxiety about the political affiliation of migrants; a clash between commitment to equal treatment and the desire to protect national resources; and human rights restrictions alongside restrictions to entry. The outcome of these clashes is presented in terms of an increasingly complex system of civic stratification. The book then moves on to examine the way in which abstract notions of rights map on to lived experiences when filtered through other forms of difference such as race and gender. This book should be of interest to students and researchers working in the areas of migration and the study of the European Union.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. A cluster of contradictions: the politics of migration in the European Union Chapter 2. Rights and controls in the management of migration: the case of Germany Chapter 3. The ambiguous terrain of rights: Italy's emergent immigration regime Chapter 4. The shifting contours of rights: Britain's asylum and immigration regime Chapter 5. Stratified rights and the management of migration: national distinctiveness in Europe Chapter 6. Gender, race and the emdodiment of rights Chapter 7. Managing contradiction: civic stratification and migrants in Europe References

O autorze

After research positions at the University of Swansea and Lambeth Council, Lydia Morris bacame a lecturer at the University of Durham for six years, before moving to Essex, where she was awarded a Chair in 1995. She is currently Professor of Sociology and Head of Department at the University of Essex