As Europe struggles to integrate growing numbers of immigrants into society, citizenship is frequently held out as both a goal of and a tool for promoting that integration. But by studying the issue from the perspective of migration, " Migration and Citizenship" makes clear that citizenship carries important legal and political status that goes beyond such efforts at social integration. Highlighting the ways in which the difference in legal status that citizenship confers enables governments to set boundaries between citizens and non-citizens in terms of rights and political participation,...

Directed at researchers and policy makers at all levels, "Innovative Concepts for Alternative Migration Policies" expands on ten presentations from the 2006 workshop of the same name held at the International Centre for Migration Policy Development in Vienna. Based on the strengths of combined ideas from migration researchers, policy experts, and representatives of international organizations, this timely volume provides eight basic principles for the design of innovative migration policy and stimulates fresh thinking for the development of unconventional and thought-provoking policy making.