ISBN: 9781009298018 - immigration, security and the liberal state: the politics of migration regulation in europe and the united states (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Contextualizing the regulation of human mobility in a new security framework, thisbookoffers an original perspective on the dominant mode of politics and evolving norms shaping the immigration policies of contemporary liberal states. In doing so, theauthors challenge existing paradigms that privilege economic and cultural factors over new security ones in explaining thecritical institutional and normative changes in migration management, from the early post-WWII through the post-Cold War era. Drawing on evidence from multiple sources, including media and elite discourse, policy tracking, party manifesto data and public opinion across Europe and the US, the book exposesthe restrictive nature of immigration politics and policies when immigration is framed as a security threat, and considers its implications for civil liberties. Informed by a rich breadth of scholarly sub-disciplines, the findings contribute both empirically and theoretically to the literatures on international migration, security and public opinion.…