Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- The logics and politics of post-WWII migration to Western Europe
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Origins and Trajectory of Post-WWII Immigration
- 3 The Organized Nativist Backlash
- 4 Immigration and State Sovereignty
- 5 The Logics and Politics Of a European Immigration Policy Regime
- 6 The Domestic Legacies of Postwar Immigration
- 7 The Logics and Politics of Immigrant Political Incorporation
- 8 Conclusions
- References
- Index
5 - The Logics and Politics Of a European Immigration Policy Regime
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- The logics and politics of post-WWII migration to Western Europe
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Origins and Trajectory of Post-WWII Immigration
- 3 The Organized Nativist Backlash
- 4 Immigration and State Sovereignty
- 5 The Logics and Politics Of a European Immigration Policy Regime
- 6 The Domestic Legacies of Postwar Immigration
- 7 The Logics and Politics of Immigrant Political Incorporation
- 8 Conclusions
- References
- Index
Summary
It is ironic that at a time when national governments are keen to stress the importance of subsidiarity as a bulwark against the centralizing trends emanating from Brussels, …[they] should find themselves agreeing to cede ground over immigration policy to the Community inch by inch out of strong practical necessity.
(Alan Butt Philip, 1994: 188)We have made it clear in the [European constitutional] convention that we intend to maintain our frontier controls and we have no intention of giving up the protocol we secured at Amsterdam which secures our position on frontiers.
(Spokesman for British Prime Minister Tony Blair, BBC News, 2003b)Although scholars dissent on the details, they almost universally concur that, during the past decade and a half or so, immigration-related issues have risen to the top of the public policy agendas of both the individual Western European states and the EU. According to this view, immigration-related issues have transcended their historical status as “low” questions of domestic public policy to become “high” issues of national and, increasingly, supranational policy and politics (Ahnfelt and From 2001; Favell 1998: 2; Geddes 2000: 3; Geddes 2001: 22; Koslowski 1998: 153). Within this burgeoning scholarship a central question is often explicitly or implicitly posed: Why are Western European states reluctant to forge and implement a common and comprehensive immigration policy regime?
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- The Logics and Politics of Post-WWII Migration to Western Europe , pp. 138 - 169Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007