The Logics and Politics of Post-WWII Migration to Western Europe

• Main Author: Messina, Anthony M.
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Cambridge University Press 04.06.2007
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: 20th century; Citizenship; Emigration and immigration; Europe > History > 1945; Europe, Western; Europe, Western > Emigration and immigration > Government policy; Europe, Western > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century; History; Immigrants; Immigration; Immigration policy; Migrants; Migration; Multiculturalism; Post-war history; Welfare state; Western Europe

Few phenomena have been more disruptive to West European politics and society than the accumulative experience of post-WWII immigration. Against this backdrop spring two questions: Why have the immigrant-receiving states historically permitted high levels of immigration? To what degree can the socia...