Shifting Boundaries of Belonging and New Migration Dynamics in Europe and China [electronic resource] /
Pries, L.editor.
This book explores the role that boundary making plays in creating a societal understanding of current migration dynamics and, by extension, in legitimising migration regimes. By comparing most recent developments in Europe and China, it reveals insights on convergent social and political practices of boundary making under divergent conditions.
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""Cover""; ""Half-Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""1 Introduction: New Dynamics of Migration and Belonging""; ""1.1 Boundary making and the politics of belonging in the EU and China""; ""1.1.1 What is a refugee? The Kosovo crisis and temporary protection regimes""; ""1.1.2 â€?Millions of Blacksâ€? invading the EU from the Mediterranean?""; ""1.2 Administrative separation and social discrimination in Chinaâ€?s hukou system""; ""1.3 A theoretical perspective on migration and belonging""
""1.3.1 The state, belonging and differentiated access to rights""""1.3.2 Social agency and belonging""; ""1.4 Chapters of this book""; ""2 Beyond Assimilation: Shifting Boundaries of Belonging in France""; ""2.1 A brief historical overview""; ""2.1.1 Before 1945: proletarian immigration and the regulation of colonial citizenship""; ""2.1.2 1945â€?1974: Economic growth and decolonisation""; ""2.1.3 The labour shortage as a major mechanism of immigration policy""; ""2.2 The recent construction of boundaries of belongings""; ""2.3 Migration as a debate on figures and categorisations""
""2.3.1 Who is a national? a long debate on the reform of nationality law""""2.3.2 The debate about the â€?true Frenchâ€?: a de jure hierarchy of foreigners and de facto hierarchy of the French""; ""Regionalism and exceptionalism""; ""Territories and urban policies""; ""Anti-discrimination policies""; ""Political inclusion and the vote""; ""Secularism and Islam""; ""Regionalism and exceptionalism""; ""Territories and urban policies""; ""Anti-discrimination policies""; ""Political inclusion and the vote""; ""Secularism and Islam""; ""2.3.3 Debating about figures""
""2.3.4 The development and composition of immigration flows""""2.3.5 An unequal settlement in the regions""; ""2.3.6 The debate on ethnic statistics""; ""2.4 Conclusion""; ""3 Changing Categories and the Bumpy Road to Recognition in Germany""; ""3.1 A historical view: German nation building, migration and foreigners""; ""3.2 Discourses and politics of naming after World War II""; ""3.2.1 From post-war migrants to â€?guest-workersâ€?""; ""3.2.2 Refugees, asylum seekers and â€?ethnic German resettlersâ€?""; ""3.2.3 Accepting immigration reality, facing problems of categories""
""3.3 Changing the categories puts reality upside down""""3.4 Conclusion""; ""4 â€?The Othersâ€? in the Netherlands: Shifting Notions of Us and Them since World War II""; ""4.1 Post-war immigration""; ""4.2 Sorting immigrants out""; ""4.3 Sorting out natives and newcomers""; ""4.4 Populism, Islam and the allochtoon""; ""4.5 Conclusion""; ""5 Shifting Categories of Belonging in the United Kingdom Census: Changing Definitions of Migration, Labour-Market Access and E""; ""5.1 UK migration history and changing immigration regimes""
""5.2 Changing categories of belonging: categorising migrants in official statistics""
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
This book explores the role that boundary making plays in creating a societal understanding of current migration dynamics and, by extension, in legitimising migration regimes. By comparing most recent developments in Europe and China, it reveals insights on convergent social and political practices of boundary making under divergent conditions.
Social policy.
Emigration and immigration.
Welfare state.
European Union.
Sociology.
Political sociology.
Social Policy.
Migration.
Politics of the Welfare State.
European Union Politics.
Sociology, general.
Political Sociology.