Selecting by Origin

by Joppke, Christian

• ISBN13: 9780674015593
• ISBN10: 0674015592
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-02-28
• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

Summary

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 cross-fire of particularistic and universalistic principles and commitments, with universalism gradually winning the upperhand. 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.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
The Problem of Ethnic Selectivity	1	(30)
Toward Source-Country Universalism in Settler States: The United States and Australia	31	(62)
Europe's Postcolonial Constellations, Northwestern and Southwestern	93	(64)
Resilience versus Demise in the Diaspora Constellation: Israel and Germany	157	(62)
The Liberal State between De- and Re-Ethnicization	219	(34)
Notes	253	(44)
References	297	(24)
Index	321