Migration Policy and Practice

Building on contemporary efforts to theorize conflicts related to borders, migration, and belonging, this book transforms existing analyses in order to propose critical interventions. The chapters are written from multiple disciplinary perspectives and present rigorous empirical and theoretical analyses to advocate progressive transformation.

Autorentext
Serin D. Houston, Mount Holyoke College, USA. John Hultgren, Northern Arizona University, USA. Eli C.S. Jamison, Virginia Tech, USA. Holly A. Jordan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, USA. Bernd Kasparek, Network for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies, Germany. Olivia Lawrence-Weilmann, Mount Holyoke College, USA. José Jorge Mendoza, Worcester State University, USA.

Inhalt

1. Possibility, Feasibility, and Meso-Level Interventions in Migration Policy and Practice; Christian Matheis and Harald Bauder
   
   2. Refuge and Refusal: Credibility assessment, status determination, and making it feasible for refugees to say 'no'; Christian Matheis
   3. Latino/a Immigration: A Refutation of the Social Trust Argument; José Jorge Mendoza
   4. Complementing Schengen: The Dublin System and the European Border and Migration Regime;Bernd Kasparek
   5. Domicile Citizenship, Migration, and the City; Harald Bauder
   6. The Model Migrant and Multiculturalism: Analyzing Neoliberal Logics in US Sanctuary Legislation; Serin D. Houston and Olivia Lawrence-Weilmann
   7. Nature, Place, and the Politics of Migration; John Hultgren
   8. State-based Immigration Efforts and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs): An Experiment in Alabama; Eli C.S. Jamison
   9. Black, Poor, and Jewish: The Ostracism of Ethiopian Jews in Modern Israel; Notes by Holly Jordan