States against migrants
Subtitle: deportation and state capacity in Germany and the United States
By: Antje Ellermann.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge , N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780521515689; 9780521092906
Subjects: Deportation -- United States; Deportation -- Germany; United States -- Emigration and immigration; Germany -- Emigration and immigration
Description: "In this comparative study of the contemporary politics of deportation in Germany and the United States, Antje Ellermann analyzes the capacity of the liberal democratic state to control individuals within its borders. The book grapples with the question of why, in the 1990s, Germany responded to vociferous public demands for stricter immigration control by passing and implementing far-reaching policy reforms, wheras the United States failed to respond effectively to a comparable public mandate."--Page [i].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Figures; title: Introduction: deportation and the state; title: A theory of socially coercive state capacity; title: The legislative politics of migration control; title: Deportation and the executive politics of implementation; title: Deportation and the street-level politics of implementation; title: Conclusion; title: Appendices; title: References; title: Index.