Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan

Toward A Theory of Immigration

  • Book
  • © 2001

Overview

Authors:
  1. Peter C. Meilaender
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction

    • Peter C. Meilaender
    Pages 1-8

  3. Migration’s Many Faces: The Complexity of the Problem

    • Peter C. Meilaender
    Pages 9-25

  4. Sorting Out the Arguments

    • Peter C. Meilaender
    Pages 26-80

  5. “This is My Own, My Native Land”: Immigration, National Identity, and the Problem of Preference

    • Peter C. Meilaender
    Pages 81-103

  6. Immigration Policy and National Identity: Two Case Studies in Practice

    • Peter C. Meilaender
    Pages 104-141

  7. Immigration and Political Community: Two Case Studies in Theory

    • Peter C. Meilaender
    Pages 142-171

  8. The Boundaries of the Political

    • Peter C. Meilaender
    Pages 172-191

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 193-259
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

Changes in the global political order have combined with dominant trends in liberal political philosophy to spark increasing scholarly criticism of the state's traditional right to regulate immigration according to its own national identity. In the face of these political and scholarly trends, Meilaender offers a strong yet thoughtful defense of that right, arguing that, within broad limitations, states may legitimately exercise wide discretion in crafting immigrations policies that reflect their own particular visions of political community. The concrete issue of immigration thus serves as a lens through which to focus on abiding dilemmas of politics and culture that lie at the heart of political philosophy.

About the author

PETER C. MEILAENDER received a Ph.D. in political theory from the University of Notre Dame in August 1999. He is currently a visiting professor of political science and the Gerst Postdoctoral Fellow in the Gerst Program in Political, Economic, and Humanistic Studies at Duke University. He is currently doing research on normative issues raised by dual citizenship.

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation