Oliver Schmidtke & Saime Ozcurumez 
Of States, Rights, and Social Closure 
Governing Migration and Citizenship

Do nation-states act to facilitate or limit immigration and integration, how and why? How do nation-states themselves transform in understanding and interpreting rights respond to immigration? Does the European Union make a difference in terms of how immigrants are perceived or how they act as stakeholders in liberal democracies?

Table of Content

Introduction – Saime Ozcurumez and Oliver Schmidtke * PART I: THE DEBATE ON THE ‘LIBERAL PARADOX’: OF STATES, RIGHTS AND SOCIAL CLOSURE * Who Belongs? Immigration, Democracy, and Citizenship – Joe Carens * Discrimination and Non-Citizens – Donald Galloway * National Sovereignty, Migration, and the Tenuous Hold of International Legality – Jeremey Webber * Borders in a ‘Post-National’ Age: Changing Modes of Inclusion and Exclusion in European Societies – Oliver Schmidtke * PART II: LIMITS OF A GOVERNING MIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP * Migration and Belonging: Challenging the Inclusiveness of the National Welfare State – Michael Bommes * We Are All ‘Republican’ Now: The Change, Prospects, and Limits of Citizenship – Thomas Faist * The Emerging Migration State: Empirical Evidence from the United States – James Hollifield * Limits of Immigration and Integration Reform: The Terms of Debate – Imke Kruse * Citizenship as a Flexible Asset – Dietrich Thraenhardt * PART III: BY NATIONS BEYOND NATIONS? POLITICS OF EUROPEAN UNION IMMIGRATION POLICY * The European Union’s Evolving Migration and Asylum Policies – Andrew Geddes * Trans-Nationalism, the European Space, and the State – Riva Kastoryano * What Is Happening to Immigration Politics, and Who Benefits? – Ruud Koopmanns * Governing Immigration Policy in Europe: Do New Levels Bring in New Actors? – Saime Ozcurumez

About the author

Oliver Schmidtke is Professor of Political Science at the University of Victoria.
Saime Ozcurumez is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mc Gill Institute.