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Abstract
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My nascent book project seeks to identify and assess the
effectiveness of European state strategies since September 11, 2001,
to navigate the policy contradictions raised by the securitization
of immigration. Framing my research is a nearly universal dilemma
for politics and policy in a post-September 11 international and
domestic security environment: Is the liberal state's traditional
role as the guarantor of the physical safety of its citizens
reconcilable with its pursuit of expansive immigration policies and
inclusive immigrant incorporation policies? While I cannot answer
this question definitively, I hope to illuminate the broad
parameters of states' policy making freedom under the unfavorable
domestic and transnational security conditions within Europe and, by
extension, other advanced industrial democracies including the
United States.
Language: en |