James F. Hollifield

Controlling immigration: a global perspective.

This book reports the work of an interdisciplinary research team of immigration specialists based in the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California San Diego from 1990 through 1993....[It] is a systematic comparative study of immigration policy and policy outcomes in nine industrialized democracies: the United States Canada Britain France Germany Belgium Italy Spain and Japan. The book has two interrelated hypotheses. The first is that there is a growing similarity among the industrialized labor-importing countries as regards policy policy effectiveness immigrant assimilation and public reactions to immigration; and the second is that the growing gap between the goals of immigration policy and the actual results of such policies is also common to these countries. (EXCERPT)

The Emerging Migration State1

Since 1945, immigration in the core industrial democracies has been increasing. The rise in immigration is a function of market forces (demand-pull and supply-push) and kinship networks, which reduce the transaction costs of moving from one society to another. These economic and sociological forces are the necessary conditions for migration to occur, but the sufficient conditions are legal and political. States must be willing to accept immigration and to grant rights to outsiders. How then do states regulate migration in the face of economic forces that push them toward greater openness, while security concerns and powerful political forces push them toward closure? States are trapped in a “liberal” paradox – in order to maintain a competitive advantage, governments must keep their economies and societies open to trade, investment, and migration. But unlike goods, capital, and services, the movement of people involves greater political risks. In both Europe and North America, rights are the key to regulating migration as states strive to fulfill three key functions: maintaining security; building trade and investment regimes; and regulating migration. The garrison state was linked with the trading state in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The twentieth and twenty-first centuries have seen the emergence of the migration state, where regulation of international migration is as important as providing for the security of the state and the economic well being of the citizenry.

Immigrants, Markets, and States: The Political Economy of Postwar Europe.

PART 1: THE LIBERAL PARADOX 1. Regulating Immigration in the Liberal Policy 2. The Political Economy of International Migration PART 2: IMMIGRATION IN POSTWAR EUROPE 3. Guestworkers and the Politics of Growth 4. Foreigners and the Politics of Recession PART 3: POLICES AND MARKETS 5. Immigration Policy and Labor 6. Immigration and the French State 7. Immigration and Industrial Policy in France PART 4: MARKETS AND RIGHTS IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES 8. Citizenship and Rights 9. Immigration and the Principles of Liberal Democracy Selected Bibliography Notes Index