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Location	Call #	Volume	Status
Sherman Library	JV6255 .H367 2013		AVAILABLE

Author	Hampshire, James, author.
Title	The politics of immigration : contradictions of the liberal state / James Hampshire.
OCLC	839315003
ISBN	9780745638980
	0745638988
	9780745638997 (pbk.)
	0745638996 (pbk.)
Publisher	Cambridge, UK : Polity, 2013.
Description	vii, 185 pages ; 23 cm
LC Subject heading/s	Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects.
	Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
	Transnationalism -- Political aspects.
	Transnationalism -- Government policy.
Contents	Immigration and the liberal state -- The politics of closure -- The politics of openness -- The Sisyphean task of migration governance -- Migration governance beyond the state -- The Janus face of liberal citizenship -- Integration in the liberal state -- Conclusion : living with contradictions.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-178) and index.
Summary	"The book shows how four defining facets of the liberal state--representative democracy, constitutionalism, capitalism and nationhood--generate conflicting imperatives for immigration policymaking, which in turn give rise to paradoxical, even contradictory policies."--Page [4] of cover.

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