The New Politics of Immigration and the End of Settler Societies

Authors

Catherine Dauvergne, Allard School of Law at the University of British ColumbiaFollow

Author Notes

Current Faculty [Catherine Dauvergne]

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Over the past decade, a global convergence in migration policies has emerged, and with it a new, mean-spirited politics of immigration. It is now evident that the idea of a settler society, previously an important landmark in understanding migration, is a thing of the past. What are the consequences of this shift for how we imagine immigration? And for how we regulate it? This book analyzes the dramatic shift away from the settler society paradigm in light of the crisis of asylum, the fear of Islamic fundamentalism, and the demise of multiculturalism. What emerges is a radically original take on the new global politics of immigration that can explain policy paralysis in the face of rising death tolls, failing human rights arguments, and persistent state desires to treat migration as an economic calculus.

[From New politics immigration and end settler societies | Human rights | Cambridge University Press]

ISBN

1107054044

Publication Date

2016

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

City

Cambridge