num_pages: 344
description: 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.
language: English
title: Selecting by Origin: Ethnic Migration in the Liberal State
publisher: Harvard University Press