Migration policy and politics

 Key Publications:

  • The Comparative Politics of Immigration: Policy Choice in Germany, Canada, Switzerland, and the United States (2021)
  • States against Migrants: Deportation in Germany and the United States (2009)
  • “Human-capital Citizenship and the Changing Logic of Immigrant Admissions,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2019

Current Courses: POLI 516C Debates in Migration and Citizenship

Research Projects:

  • Immigration Bureaucracies in an Era of Anti-Immigration Populism
  • Graphic Narratives of Migration
  • Belonging in Unceded Territory

See Antje Ellermann's full profile here

Key Publications: 

  • “Immigrant Legalization: A dilemma between justice and the rule of law”, Migration Studies, 2022.
  • “The Limits of Rights: Claims-making on Behalf of Immigrants”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2020.
  • “Our Gratitude to Our Soldiers: Military Spouses, Family Re-unification, and Postwar Immigration Reform”, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 2010.
  • Citizenship and Immigration: Multiculturalism, Assimilation, and Challenges to the Nation-State, Annual Review of Sociology, 2008.
  • Becoming a Citizen in the United States and Canada: Structured Mobilization and Immigrant Political Incorporation, 2006.

See Irene Bloemraad's full profile here   

Key Publications: 

  • “Gendered Jobs: Integrating Immigrants versus Controlling Immigration in the European Union.” Politics and Gender, 2013.
  • “The Radical Right Gender Gap.” Comparative Political Studies, 2004. Migration Policy and Politics: The European Union, Western Europe, Immigration Control, Immigrant Integration.
  • Immigration in the 21st Century: The Comparative Politics of Immigration Policy. Routledge Press, 2020.
  • “Immigrant Integration.” In Introduction to International Migration: Population Movements in the 21st Century, 2021.

Courses: POLI 333M-001 - Issues in Comparative Politics: Western European Politics

See Terri Givens' full profile here.  

Key Publications:

  • "How do immigration policies affect voter support for low-skilled immigrants? Evidence from a survey experiment." With Andrea Lawlor and Mireille Paquet. Under review.

Grants:

  • Migrant Integration in the Mid-21st Century: Bridging Divides (SSHRC)

See Vince Hopkins' full profile here

 Key Publications:

  • Immigration and the American Ethos (Cambridge University Press), 2020
  • "Mass Opinion and Immigration Policy in the United States: Re-Assessing Clientelist and Elite Perspectives," Perspectives on Politics, 2016
  • "Public Attitudes Toward Immigration Policy Across the Legal/Illegal Divide," Political Behavior, 2016

Research Project: 

  • Understanding public support for cultural pluralism in immigrant-receiving countries

See Matthew Wright's full profile here


 

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