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Breaking the Bonds of Blood: The Politics of Family Migration in Europe
Family migration accounts for the majority of migrant movement to the developed world. In response, European states change family migration policy provisions in an attempt to balance national interests with their human rights obligation to respect family life. This dissertation explains variation across European family migration polices and discovers politics is the primary policy determinant. The findings suggest public support for immigration control and radical anti-immigrant parties trumps humanitarian, economic, and demographic concerns when it comes to explaining variance in family migration policy. Indicators of political conservativism also describe variation in labor and family migrant policy, in family immigration and immigrant policies, and in the implementation of āintegration from abroadā programs. The results have significant political implications on two fronts. First, immigration policies based on humanitarian principles are fragile to national political maneuvering, suggesting that international law has not obtained significant weight over national interests. Second, the importance of the radical right and anti-immigrant public opinion for family migration policy reveals the vulnerability of rights-based immigration policy to anti-democratic interests. In addition to providing robust findings and practical implications for domestic and international politics, this dissertation contributes to the existing literature in an additional four ways: it examines family migration (which has not been widely distinguished as a unique subject of study); it groups existing theories of immigration policy into an evaluative framework of humanitarian, economic, political, and demographic policy motivators; it uses multivariate analysis to examine general trends across cases; and it uses recent data to examine policy provisions in quantitative models
Critical Dialog: Response to Rachel M. Gillumās Review of The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States
A Critical Dialog between the reviewer, Rachel M. Gillum, of The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States and the authors, Bozena C. Welborne, Aubrey L. Westfall, Ćzge Ćelik Russell, and Sarah A. Tobin. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018. 264p
The politics of immigration in Scotland/ Aubrey L. Westfall.
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The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States
The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States investigates the social and political effects of the practice of Muslim-American women wearing the headscarf (hijab) in a non-Muslim state. The authors find the act of head covering is not politically motivated in the US setting, but rather it accentuates and engages Muslim identity in uniquely American ways.
Transcending contemporary political debates on the issue of Islamic head covering, The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States addresses concerns beyond the simple, particular phenomenon of wearing the headscarf itself, with the authors confronting broader issues of lasting import. These issues include the questions of safeguarding individual and collective identity in a diverse democracy, exploring the ways in which identities inform and shape political practices, and sourcing the meaning of citizenship and belonging in the United States through the voices of Muslim-American women themselves.
The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States superbly melds quantitative data with qualitative assessment, and the authors smoothly integrate the results of nearly two thousand survey responses from Muslim-American women across forty-nine states. Seventy-two in-depth interviews with Muslim women living in the United States bolster the arguments put forward by the authors to provide an incredibly well-rounded approach to this fascinating topic.
Ultimately, the authors argue, women\u27s experiences with identity and boundary construction through their head-covering practices carry important political consequences that may well shed light on the future of the United States as a model of democratic pluralism.
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