Migrants and Citizens
Subtitle: Demographic Change in the European State System
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: June 22, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780801437144
Subjects: Central government policies; Immigration & emigration; Political science & theory; Government policy; Europe; History; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; SOC007000; SOC; HIS010000; HIS; Civics & Citizenship; Emigration & Immigration; Government - Comparative; Emigration And Immigration; Europe - General
First sentence: Practical policy questions regarding international migration strike a deep chord in contemporary European politics that reverberates beyond the policy realm because they raise difficult theoretical questions about political identity, belonging to a polity, and membership in a state: Who are we? 
Description: "In Migrants and Citizens, Rey Koslowski examines the impact of migration on international politics. He focuses on two related avenues of inquiry: the immediate political problems faced by the European Union, and the general issues that confront us as we try to understand the modern international system.".

"Migration has become politically salient so quickly, Koslowski argues, because the nation-state and the political institutions associated with it developed in the centuries during which western Europe was a net exporter of people. With the reversal of that trend less than a generation ago, many of these institutions have been ill-suited to deal with the political and policy demands brought on by the arrival of large numbers of foreigners."--BOOK JACKET.