The politics of migration and immigration in Europe / Andrew Geddes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Geddes, Andrew, 1965-

Series:

Sage politics texts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--Government policy.

Immigrants.

Europe--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Europe.

Emigration and immigration.

Government policy.

Immigrants--Government policy--Europe.

Physical Description:

xi, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2003.

Summary:

This text fulfills a major gap by comprehensively reviewing one of the most salient policy issues in Europe today, migration and immigration. It is the first book to address the question of whether we can legitimately speak of a European politics of migration that links states in terms of their policy response to each other and to an evolving EU policy. The book carefully differentiates between different types of migration, introduces the main concepts and debates, and provides a broad comparative framework from which to assess the role and impact of individual states and the European Union (EU) and European integration to this key contemporary issue. Topical and up-to-date, the author fully reviews the politics and policies of immigration across the breadth and depth of Europe including the "older" immigration countries of France, Germany and the United Kingdom, the "newer" southern European countries, and the enlargement states of East and Central Europe. Contents: Analyzing the European Politics of Migration/Maintaining "Fortress Britain"?/France/Germany/Multicultural Dilemmas in The Netherlands and Sweden/The Politics of Migration in an Integrating Europe/Southern Europe/The Europeanization of Migration Politics in Central and Eastern Europe/Assessing the European Politics of Migration

Contents:

1 Analysing the Politics of Migration and Immigration in Europe 1

Analytical themes 4

Why do people move? Explaining mobility and immobility 7

The guests that stayed 15

Trends in post-war migration 17

Immigration policies 19

Immigrant policies 23

The widening of migration 25

European integration 26

Plan of the book 27

2 Maintaining 'Fortress Britain'? 29

Immigration policy 31

Immigrant policy 44

European integration 48

3 France: Still the One and Indivisible Republic? 52

Immigration policy 53

Immigrant policy 66

European integration 74

4 Germany: Normalised Immigration Politics? 79

Immigration policy 80

Immigrant policy 90

European integration 96

5 Multicultural Dilemmas in the Netherlands and Sweden 102

Immigration policy 103

Dutch immigration policies 104

Swedish immigration policies 107

Immigrant policy 112

From minorities policy to integration policy in the Netherlands 113

From multicultural policy to integration policy in Sweden 118

European integration 123

6 The Politics of Migration in an Integrating Europe 126

Why Europe? 127

Immigration policy 128

Towards common European policies? 139

Immigrant policies 142

The EU migrant inclusion agenda 143

7 Southern Europe: Immigration Politics in Newer Immigration Countries 149

Informality and irregularity 151

Immigration policy 155

The EU's impact 156

Migration and foreign policy 165

Immigrant policies 166

Catch-up or exceptionalism? 167

Immigration and crime 170

8 The Europeanisation of Migration Politics in Central and Eastern Europe 173

Immigration policy 175

The requirements of EU membership 179

Immigrant and minorities policies 184

9 Assessing the European Politics of Migration 191

The continuation of migration in 'non-immigration' countries 193

Assessing the European politics of migration 195

The spatial and temporal reconstruction of migration and policy challenges 197.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-215) and index.

ISBN:

0761956689

0761956697

OCLC:

59467797