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Navigating Globalization: Immigration Policy in Canada and Australia, 1945-2007
Ist Teil von
Sociological forum (Randolph, N.J.), 2008-12, Vol.23 (4), p.786-813
Ort / Verlag
Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
2008
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Wiley Online Library - AutoHoldings Journals
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Scholarship on immigration and globalization has failed to adequately analyze the nation-state's regulatory capacities, insisting instead that contemporary patterns of migration jeopardize national sovereignty and territoriality. While recognized that states possess the legitimate authority to control their territorial and membership boundaries, recent transformations of these capacities remain largely unanalyzed. This article's historical analysis of Australia and Canada's postwar immigration policies demonstrates that the contours of state regulation are intimately connected to the exigencies of state administration and nation building and--in contrast to the expectations of dominant theories-- have intensified and expanded within the globalization context. The literature's inattention to the fundamentally political nature of immigration has obscured the critical effects of national policies within both the migratory and globalization process. Australia's and Canada's contemporary policies constitute a unique model of migration control and reflect attempts by both countries to strategically position their societies within the global system and resolve a number of economic, political, cultural, and demographic transitions associated with globalization.