This text fulfills a major gap by comprehensively reviewing one of the mostsalient policy issues in Europe today migration and immigration. It is thefirst book ... » 

This text fulfills a major gap by comprehensively reviewing one of the mostsalient policy issues in Europe today migration and immigration. It is thefirst book to address the question of whether we can legitimately speak of aEuropean politics of migration that links states in terms of their policyresponse to each other and to an evolving EU policy.The book carefully differentiates between different types of migrationintroduces the main concepts and debates and provides a broad comparativeframework from which to assess the role and impact of individual states and theEuropean Union EU and European integration to this key contemporary issue.Topical and uptodate the author fully reviews the politics and policies ofimmigration across the breadth and depth of Europe including the olderimmigration countries of France Germany and the United Kingdom the newersouthern European countries and the enlargement states of East and CentralEurope.The Politics of Immigration and Migration in Europe is essential reading forall undergraduate and postgraduate students of European politics politicalscience and the social sciences more generally.Andrew Geddes lectures at the School of Politics and Communications StudiesUniversity of Liverpool.This book will be essential reading for students of migration and Europeanintegration but will also be important for decisionmakers and indeedanyone who wants to understand one of the burning issues of our times Stephen CastlesProfessor of Migration and Refugee Studies Director of the Refugee StudiesCentre University of Oxford «