Selecting by Origin : : Ethnic Migration in the Liberal State / / Christian Joppke.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
• VerfasserIn: Joppke, Christian,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2005]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)

In a world of mutually exclusive nation-states, international migration constitutes a fundamental anomaly. No wonder that such states have been inclined to select migrants according to their origins. The result is ethnic migration. But Christian Joppke shows that after World War II there has been a trend away from ethnic selectivity and toward non-discriminatory immigration policies across Western states. Indeed, he depicts the modern state in the crossfire of particularistic and universalistic principles and commitments, with universalism gradually winning the upper hand. Thus, the policies that regulate the boundaries of states can no longer invoke the particularisms that constitute these boundaries and the collectivities residing within them. Joppke presents detailed case studies of the United States, Australia, Western Europe, and Israel. His book will be of interest to a broad audience of sociologists, political scientists, historians, legal scholars, and area specialists.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Problem of Ethnic Selectivity -- 2. Toward Source-Country Universalism in Settler States: The United States and Australia -- 3. Europe’s Postcolonial Constellations, Northwestern and Southwestern -- 4. Resilience versus Demise in the Diaspora Constellation: Israel and Germany -- 5. The Liberal State between De- and Re-Ethnicization -- Notes -- References -- Index