National models, policy types, and the politics of immigration in liberal democracies

Citizenship Rights for Immigrants: National Political Processes and Cross-National Convergence in Western Europe, 1980–2008

“…Government incumbency of the right or left is not systematically associated with lower or higher levels of immigrant rights. This result concurs with Freeman's (2006) argument that both mainstream left and right parties tend to be split over immigration issues, and with Howard's (2009) empirical findings regarding policies on immigrants' access to nationality. Janoski (2010, pp.…”

“…Representatives of the second variant are critical of the postnationalist emphasis on supranational norms and institutions, but similarly predict cross-national convergence toward more inclusive citizenship rights for immigrants, at least among liberal democracies (e.g., Freeman 1995;Freeman and Oegelman 1998;Hansen and Weil 2001). As Joppke (2004, p. 254) formulates it, "liberal nation-states are marked by a thorough deethnicization, in which the various national labels are only different names for the same thing, the liberal creed of liberty and equality.…”

“…However, mainstream parties have often not been able to control the political agenda over immigration because of electoral competition from right-wing populist parties (Perlmutter 1996;Schain 2006;Howard 2009). Electoral pressures from parties of the populist right may however be counterbalanced by the political leverage of immigrant voters (e.g., Ireland 1994;Freeman 1995;Soysal 1997). Postcolonial immigrants who held citizenship upon arrival, naturalized immigrants, members of the second generation who acquired citizenship through naturalization or jus soli, as well as foreign nationals with voting rights (e.g., on the local level in several countries, or for Commonwealth citizens on all political levels in the United Kingdom) may make up a significant percentage of the electorate, which may lead mainstream parties to adopt liberal policies in order to capture the immigrant vote.…”

To see ourselves as others see us: identity and attitudes towards immigration amongst civic nationalists

“…In practical terms, it points towards cultural pluralism as a possible area of intra-party tension for SNRPs. Such tensions exist in most parties and elite-and electorate opinion on the issue often differs at the national (Freeman 2006;Consterdine 2015) and the European level (Lahav and Messina 2005)-but for SNRPs the linkages between cultural pluralism and nationalism provide an added dimension.…”

Swedish Employers and Trade Unions, Varieties of Capitalism and Labour Migration Policies

“…Moreover, many contributions commit themselves exclusively to the subfield of migration studies and in doing so fail to take advantage of theories outside the migration field. For political-economy accounts of migration, one either has to go back to the 1970s (Castles & Kosack 1973;Piore 1979) or rely on the few accounts published since then (Caviedes 2010a(Caviedes , 2010bCole & Dales 1999;Freeman 2006;Menz 2008Menz , 2010. As further contended by Menz and Caviedes, post-war immigration to Europe is rooted in economic migration, so 'it seems clear that a broad survey of economic migration trends should be embedded within the larger discourse on the changing political economy of Europe and the world' (Menz & Caviedes 2010: 4).…”