Political Science and Comparative Immigration Politics
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The most comprehensive reviews and critiques of theories of international migration published in the last decade cover a broad range of issues, but have nothing to say about the politics of immigration nor the sources and consequences of migration policy (Massey, et al., 1993, 1994; Massey, 1998). This oversight reflects both the tendency of scholars outside political science to neglect the political dimensions of migration, even so obvious a topic as state regulation of population flows, and the equally unfortunate tendency of students of politics to ignore migration altogether. Those political scientists who have worked on migration issues in the past have found audiences mainly among sociologists, anthropologists, and historians and have most often operated in multi-disciplinary settings. They have scarcely touched political science as a discipline. This may in part reflect the fact that the fledgling political science of immigration has been theoretically weak, focusing on thick description and seat of the pants interpretation, and given to normative posturing and disputation.
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تاریخ انتشار 2000