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Selecting by origin : ethnic migration in the liberal state

Christian Joppke (Author)
Joppke examines the changing policies towards immigration across Western states in the past half century, as the trend has moved away from selecting immigrants according to their origins, to non-discriminatory practices
Print Book, English, 2005
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2005
xi, 330 pages ; 25 cm
9780674015593, 0674015592
56214555
Preface 1. The Problem of Ethnic Selectivity 2. Toward Source-Country Universalism in Settler States: The United States and Australia 3. Europe's Postcolonial Constellations, Northwestern and Southwestern 4. Resilience versus Demise in the Diaspora Constellation: Israel and Germany 5. The Liberal State between De- and Re-Ethnicization Notes References Index