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Author Ellermann, Antje, 1971-

Title States against migrants : deportation in Germany and the United States / Antje Ellermann
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 199 pages) : illustrations
Contents List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Deportation and the state -- A theory of socially coercive state capacity -- The legislative politics of migration control -- Deportation and the executive politics of implementation -- Deportation and the street-level politics of implementation -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- References -- Index
Summary In this comparative study of the contemporary politics of deportation in Germany and the United States, Antje Ellermann analyzes the capacity of the liberal democratic state to control individuals within its borders. The book grapples with the question of why, in the 1990s, Germany responded to vociferous public demands for stricter immigration control by passing and implementing far-reaching policy reforms, while the United States failed to effectively respond to a comparable public mandate. Drawing on extensive field interviews, Ellermann finds that these crossnational differences reflect institutionally determined variations in socially coercive state capacity. By tracing the politics of deportation across the evolution of the policy cycle, beginning with anti-immigrant populist backlash and ending in the expulsion of migrants by deportation bureaucrats, Ellermann is also able to show that the conditions underlying state capacity systematically vary across policy stages
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-189) and index
Notes English
Subject Deportation -- United States
Deportation -- Germany
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
Deportation
Emigration and immigration
Einwanderungspolitik
Illegaler Einwanderer
Ausweisung
SUBJECT United States -- Emigration and immigration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140040
Germany -- Emigration and immigration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054504
Subject Germany
United States
Deutschland
USA
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008042416
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