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Yasemin Soysal
BA (Istanbul) PhD (California)
Previously John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Sociology and Faculty Associate of the
Center for European Studies and the Center for International Affairs at Harvard
University. Has been German Marshall Fund Research Fellow, National Academy of
Education Spencer Fellow, National Endowment of Humanities Research Fellow, Jean
Monnet Fellow, visiting scholar at Max Planck Institute, Berlin, and visiting professor
at Juan March Institute, Madrid.
Much of her research and writing have related to the historical development and
contemporary reconfigurations of the nation-state and citizenship in Europe; cultural
and political implications of international migrations; and international discourses and
regimes of human rights. Her teaching includes courses on the nation-state, citizenship,
and collective identity; immigration; European integration and globalization.
In many Western countries, rights that once belonged solely to citizens are being
extended to immigrants, a trend that challenges the nature and basis of citizenship at a
time when nation-states are fortifying their boundaries through restirictive border
controls and expressions of nationalist ideologies. In this book, Yasemin Soysal
compares the different ways European nations incorporate immigrants, how these
policies evolved, and how they are influenced by international human rights discourse.
This fresh approach to the study of citizenship, rights, and immigration will be
invaluable to anyone involved in issues of human rights, international migration, and
transnational cultural interactions, as well as to those who study the contemporary
transformation of the nation-state, nationalism, and globalization.
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
1: Introduction
2: International Migration and the Nation-State System
3: Explaining Incorporation Regimes
4: Discourses and Instruments of Incorporation
5: The Organization of Incorporation
6: The Collective Organization of Migrants
7: The Membership Rights and Status of Migrants
8: Toward a Postnational Model of Membership
9: Conclusion
Appendix A: List of State Agencies, Organizations, and Migrant Associations at which
Interviews Were Conducted
Appendix B: The Organizational Structure of Incorporation
Appendix C: List of International Instruments that Provide Standards Applicable to
International Migrants
Appendix D: List of Intergovernmental and Nongovernmental Organizations Concerned
with International Migration and Migrant Workers
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