1st Edition

Managing Migration Civic Stratification and Migrants Rights

By Lydia Morris Copyright 2002
188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

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 globalisation, 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... Read more
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

Biography

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