TY - BOOK ID - 142818147 TI - Immigration, security and the liberal state AU - Lahav, Gallya AU - Messina, Anthony M PY - 2024 SN - 9781009298001 1009298003 9781009298018 9781009297998 100929802X 1009297988 PB - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Emigration and immigration KW - Government policy KW - United States KW - Europe KW - Government policy. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:142818147 AB - Contextualizing the regulation of human mobility in a new security framework, this book offers an original perspective on the dominant mode of politics and evolving norms shaping the immigration policies of contemporary liberal states. In doing so, the authors challenge existing paradigms that privilege economic and cultural factors over new security ones in explaining the critical institutional and normative changes in migration management, from the early post-WWII through the post-Cold War era. Drawing on evidence from multiple sources, including media and elite discourse, policy tracking, party manifesto data and public opinion across Europe and the US, the book exposes the restrictive nature of immigration politics and policies when immigration is framed as a security threat, and considers its implications for civil liberties. Informed by a rich breadth of scholarly sub-disciplines, the findings contribute both empirically and theoretically to the literatures on international migration, security and public opinion. ER -