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This book set out to explore the assumption, gleaned from the limited asylum literature and from intuition, that asylum policies result from a tug-of-war between national interests pulling to tighten asylum, and international norms and morality pulling to loosen it.To probe this assumed struggle, the book explored the arguments presented by parliamentarians when they drew up important asylum legislation in Switzerland, Germany, and Britain between the late 1970s and the mid 1990s. While this tug-of-war image did sometimes appear, these debates reveal that asylum is shaped by a far more entangled and counterintuitive mix of motives, and these findings force us to reexamine how we conceptualize the setting of asylum policies.
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Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (NewYork: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996).
Main Bovard, spokesperson for Amnesty International/Switzerland (July 15, 1995), Suzanne Auer, assistant director, Swiss Refugee Aid (Schweizerische Fluchtlingshilfe) (July 19, 1995), and Lucie de Lophem, head of Swiss Unit, UNHCR (July 25, 1995).
See, for example, David Jacobson, Rights across Borders (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996); Saskia Sassen, Losing Control? Sovereignty in an Age of Globalization (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996);Yasemin Soysal, Limits to Citizenship: Migrants and Postnational Membership in Europe (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1994); Wayne Cornelius, Philip Martin, and James Hollifield, eds., Controlling Immigration: A Global Perspective (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994).
Gary Freeman, “The Decline of Sovereignty? Politics and Immigration Restrictions in Liberal States,” in Challenge to the Nation-State: Immigration in Western Europe and the United States, ed. Christian Joppke (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).
Gary Freeman, “The Decline of Sovereignty? Politics and Immigration Restrictions in Liberal States,” in Challenge to the Nation-State: Immigration in Western Europe and the United States, ed. Christian Joppke (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).
Christian Joppke, “Why Liberal States Accept Unwanted Immigration,” World Politics 50 (January 1998).
Gary Freeman, “Modes of Immigration Politics in Liberal States,” International Migration Review 29, 4 (Winter 1995); Christian Joppke, “Why Liberal States Accept Unwanted Immigration,” World Politics 50 (January 1998).
Christian Joppke, “Why Liberal States Accept Unwanted Immigration,” World Politics 50 (January 1998).
Important works on nationalism include Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, 2nd ed. (London: Verso, 1991); John Breuilly, Nationalism and the State, 2nd ed. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993); Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983); Liah Greenfeld, Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992); Eric J. Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991); Anthony D. Smith, The Ethnic Origins of Nations (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986); John Armstrong, Nations before Nationalism (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1982). Within the international relations literature see, among others, James Mayall, Nationalism and International Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990); William Bloom, Personal Identity, National Identity, and International Relations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990); Ole Waever, et al., Identity, Migration and the New Security Agenda in Europe (NewYork: St. Martin’s Press, 1993);Yosef Lapid and Friedrich Kratochwil, eds., The Return of Culture and Identity in IR Theory (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1996). For an excellent introduction to nationalism, see John Hutchinson and Anthony D. Smith, eds. Nationalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994).
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Steiner, N. (2000). Conclusion. In: Arguing about Asylum. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780312299422_5
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