Migration and Integration - The Case for Liberalism With Borders

List of contents

Introduction, challenges to liberalism with borders; Part I. Entry and Integration: 1. The looming wave; 2. Sovereignty, nationalism, and human rights; 3. Integration and cultural difference: the liberal's dilemma; Part II. Exemplary National Experiences: 4. Nordic states: Sweden, Norway, and Denmark; 5. The United Kingdom; 6. France; Part III. Hard Choices: 7. Migration and integration: options for the liberal state; 8. A model: problematical means for liberal ends.

About the author

Tom Farer is University Professor at the University of Denver where he served for fourteen years as Dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies. Among his many titles, he was the first US citizen elected president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and he has consulted for Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. He is also the author of Confronting Global Terrorism and American Neo-Conservatism (2008).

Summary

This remarkably acute, comprehensive, and candid book elaborates a liberal nationalist approach to the neuralgic questions of how to control access to rich democratic states in the face of extraordinary demographic pressures, and how to achieve a requisite common moral perspective among culturally diverse populations.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Farer, Tom (University of Denver) Farer
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781108707503
• ISBN: 978-1-108-70750-3
• No. of pages: 212
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, LAW / International, LAW / Public, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, International Relations, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law