The Politics of Migration and Immigration in Europe (SAGE Politics Texts series) - Softcover

Geddes, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761956697 ISBN 13: 9780761956693

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2003

Synopsis

This text fulfills a major gap by comprehensively reviewing one of the most salient policy issues in Europe today, migration and immigration. It is the first book to address the question of whether we can legitimately speak of a European politics of migration that links states in terms of their policy response to each other and to an evolving EU policy.

The book carefully differentiates between different types of migration, introduces the main concepts and debates, and provides a broad comparative framework from which to assess the role and impact of individual states and the European Union (EU) and European integration to this key contemporary issue.

Topical and up-to-date, the author fully reviews the politics and policies of immigration across the breadth and depth of Europe including the `older′ immigration countries of France, Germany and the United Kingdom, the `newer′ southern European countries, and the enlargement states of East and Central Europe.

The Politics of Immigration and Migration in Europe is essential reading for all undergraduate and post-graduate students of European politics, political science and the social sciences more generally.

Andrew Geddes lectures at the School of Politics and Communications Studies, University of Liverpool.

`This book will be essential reading for students of migration and European integration, but will also be important for decision-makers, and, indeed, anyone who wants to understand one of the burning issues of our times′ - Stephen Castles,

Professor of Migration and Refugee Studies, Director of the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford

About this title

About the Author

Andrew Geddes is Professor of Politics and Co-Director of the Faculty of Social Sciences Migration Research Group at the University of Sheffield. He was awarded a European Research Council Advanced Investigator grant for 2014-19 to analyse the drivers of global migration governance through comparison of Europe, North America, South America and Asia-Pacific.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761956697
• ISBN 13: 9780761956693
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 234