Adam Luedtke

City University of New York,- Queensborough Community College · Social Sciences

Human migration in contexts of economic crisis or ethno-religious conflict, poses social and economic risks both for migrant-receiving and migrant-sending states. This chapter will explore the ethical gains that would come from the establishment of a global institution for governing migration issues. The chapter will outline the ethical basis for a...

Despite sensationalizing media coverage that depicts immigration in terms of “human floods” and other “aquatic metaphors,” Luedtke argues that the European Union has steadily and quietly developed a common immigration policy closely linked to the union’s overarching project of political integration. He observes, “Europeanization has redefined what...

Since the early 1990s, increasing efforts to “Europeanize” immigration policy have exposed a major polemic among European policy-makers and scholars alike: how can EU member-states reconcile efforts to control the movement of people across national frontiers with those to promote open borders, free markets, and liberal standards? Both despite and b...

In the run-up to the second round of the 2012 French presidential election, incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy politicized the nexus between immigration and European integration by threatening to pull out of the Schengen Agreement, Europe’s zone of internal free movement with a common external frontier. Aimed at the supporters of the Far-Right National Fron...

An indicator of globalization is the growing number of humans crossing national borders. In contrast to explanations for flows of goods and capital, migration research has concentrated on unilateral movements to rich democracies. This focus ignores the bilateral determinants of migration and stymies empirical and theoretical inquiry. The theoretica...

Item Reviewed: Greenhill, Kelly M., Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)

The passage of a restrictive immigration law in Arizona in 2010 rekindled an old debate in the United States on immigration policy and the role of federalism. Despite periodic constitutional controversies, scholars of federalism and U.S. state politics have not adequately explained variation in state-level policy making on immigration. The authors...

The member states of the European Union (EU) have recently experimented with constructing a common immigration policy. This gives rise to an important and fascinating question: what happens to immigration policy once it is no longer made in national capitals? Have national governments been able to retain ultimate control over the field of EU immigr...

Europe stands on the brink of a new era of diversity and immigration. Although many Europeans would prefer to ignore this fact, the signs are everywhere. Societies and politics are being irrevocably changed by their encounters with migrants, both recent and settled. This book pinpoints the specific trends and emerging patterns that allow us to unde...

Europe stands on the brink of a new era of diversity and immigration. Although many Europeans would prefer to ignore this fact, the signs are everywhere. Societies and politics are being irrevocably changed by their encounters with migrants, both recent and settled. This book pinpoints the specific trends and emerging patterns that allow us to unde...

Globalization and technology have altered public fears and changed expectations of how government should make people safer. This book analyzes how Europeans and Americans perceive and regulate risk. The authors show how public fears about risk are filtered through political systems to pressure governments to insure against risk. © Lina M. Svedin, A...

Globalization and technology have altered public fears and changed expectations of how government should make people safer. This book analyzes how Europeans and Americans perceive and regulate risk. The authors show how public fears about risk are filtered through political systems and subjective lenses of perception to pressure governments to insu...

This essay will review and critique prevailing scholarship on public opinion toward issues of ethnicity, nationalism, and migration. Although a hot topic in many academic disciplines, research on public opinion in these areas has suffered from a lack of good data, disciplinary fragmentation, and a dearth of studies that engage one another. Accordin...

In an age of rapidly increasing international migration, cross-border human flows take on increasing political significance. Since control of borders is one of the key categories of Westphalian sovereignty, states retain the right to control these flows through granting (or refusing) visas to nationals of various countries. However, increasing glob...

This chapter demonstrates how governments take divergent paths in managing technologies and innovations that have risk associated with them. We shall see that federalism is a key factor here in pushing policy divergence, in contrast to some of the other policy areas examined in the book. In the United States, the implementation of new voting techno...

In this chapter we take a look at flooding and the management of floods as a type of environmental risk management. Floods constitute the single most frequent source of natural disasters, and the costliest type of natural disaster in the world (Center for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters 2009). As mentioned in chapter 1, the United States and...

This chapter explores differing perceptions of health risks, as well as the role of experts and the state in mitigating such risks. Looking at food safety as a particular form of health risk management, this chapter examines diverging and converging trends in the EU and United States with regard to food regulation and the introduction of geneticall...

This chapter compares and contrasts European and American perceptions of risk and risk regulation. We first lay out the theoretical basis of the “risk society,” or how risk and views about risk have changed with modernity and the advancement of technology. We then highlight the importance of framing, showing how the media and other actors shape the...

This chapter will compare European and American views of immigration, and link these views to public policy choices on both continents. It will be shown that although immigration triggers apparently universal dynamics of risk and insecurity, governing institutions in the EU and the United States mitigate these dynamics differently in producing high...

The previous chapter highlighted differences in perception and culture regarding risk regulation between Europeans and Americans. This chapter demonstrates how the desire to mitigate risks has been mediated by other differences between the EU and the United States—namely, differences in federalism, institutions, and interest groups—leading to diver...

The member states of the European Union (EU) have recently experimented with constructing a common immigration policy. This gives rise to an important and fascinating question: what happens to immigration policy once it is no longer made in national capitals? Have national governments been able to retain ultimate control over the field of EU immigr...

After September 11, attempts to "harmonize" EU immigration policy were either blocked by national governments, or shifted towards more of a security emphasis. Despite the ambitious Tampere program of 1999, by 2005 it was clear that there would be no common EU immigration policy anytime soon. What happened between the optimism of 1999 and the failur...

The quantitative study of human migration lags far behind its political signiflcance in recent years. We now have sophisticated models for explaining transnational ∞ows of goods, services, and capital. But despite ever- growing numbers of humans crossing national borders, political science analysis of these migration ∞ows has sufiered from the foll...

Reviewed Work: Democratic Politics in the European Parliament by Simon Hix, Abdul G. Noury, Gérard Roland

Most scholarship on immigration politics is made up of isolated case studies or cross-disciplinary work that does not build on existing political science theory. This study attempts to remedy this shortcoming in three ways: (1) we derive theories from the growing body of immigration literature, to hypothesize about why political parties would be mo...

[From the introduction]. As the new millennium dawned, the European Union (EU) began negotiating the first of several important pieces of EU legislation on immigration, which had been possible ever since Brussels gained limited powers in this area under the 1997 Amsterdam Treaty (Hix and Niessen 1996, Geddes 2000). This was a startling development,...

Adam Luedtke tells a more institutional story of how the supranational institutions of the European Union have increasingly gained influence over immigration issues. The salience and conflictual nature of immigration debates in Europe since the 1980s only exacerbated national-government reluctance to delegate powers in this area to Brussels, and in...

Why would immigration policy be centralized or decentralized in a federal system? What incentives do political actors at the central and sub-central levels of government possess vis-à-vis immigration policy? Taking account of the growing need to make sense of the unique features of immigration policy in a federal system (e.g. the mobility of labor,...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2006. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 149-157).

Items Reviewed: Justice and Home Affairs in the EU: Liberty and Security Issues after Enlargement. Edited by J. APAP. Cheltenham and Northampton: Edward Elgar, 2004. Pp.xii + 339; ₤65 (cloth) ISBN 1-84376-787-2.The Ethics and Politics of Asylum: Liberal Democracy and the Response to Refugees. By M.J. GIBNEY. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univer...

This paper examines the impact of issue salience and political partisanship on the restrictiveness of immigration laws in France, Germany, and the UK, from 1990 to 2002. Our first hypothesis is that immigration policymaking in liberal states is normally dominated by client politics, which minimizes restrictiveness towards immigrant rights, but unde...

Reviewed Work: Regional Institutions and Governance in the European Union by Jose M. Magone

This article empirically investigates the effect of national identity on public opinion towards European Union (EU) control over immigration policy. The EU has recently gained some control over immigration policy, but has faced strong opposition from reluctant national politicians. This study argues that public opinion is an important factor in exp...

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This article empirically investigates the effect of national identity on public opinion towards European Union (EU) control over immigration policy. The EU has recently gained some control over immigration policy, but has faced strong opposition from reluctant national politicians. This study argues that public opinion is an important factor in exp...

This paper will detail the evolution of the EU’s immigration regime, from Maastricht’s modest beginnings, to the ambitious European constitution. Since “immigration policy” is a very broad topic, covering diverse areas such as labor migration, family reunification, political asylum, social integration, and the fight against illegal immigration, the...

Items Reviewed: Mark Bell (2002) Anti-Discrimination Law and the European Union (Oxford: Oxford University Press) £47.50 (hbk), ISBN 0 19 924450 2; 269pp.òxxv (ADL) Gra ́inne de Burca and J.H.H. Weiler (eds) (2001) The European Court of Justice (Oxford: Oxford University Press) £19.99 (pbk), ISBN 0 19 924602 5; 233pp.òxxvi (TECJ) Lisa Conant (2002)...

This article examines recent attempts to create a common European Union (EU) immigration policy. This “harmonized” policy has faced political blockages, despite being seen by most observers as necessary if the EU is to meet its goal of free movement of labor. Because of this resistance, immigration harmonization has lagged behind other EU policy ar...

This article examines recent attempts to create a common European Union (EU) immigration policy. This “harmonized” policy has faced political blockages, despite being seen by most observers as necessary if the EU is to meet its goal of free movement of labor. Because of this resistance, immigration harmonization has lagged behind other EU policy ar...

Focusses on EU immigration policy. While providing an overview of the current status of EU immigration policy, Givens and Luedtke also examine the various national-level factors from party politics to citizen action that can influence the direction and shape of new EU laws. The analysis reveals that harmonization is more difficult in areas of immig...

This paper will demonstrate how the economic and institutional imperatives of European integration have led to two contradictory political developments: 1) a push by EU institutions such as the Commission and the Parliament, as well as some member states, to develop a common, "harmonized" EU immigration policy that includes TCNs; and 2) a resistanc...

Although the evolution of a unified Europe has been unsteady, the immigration policies of member states have nonetheless become increasingly harmonized in recent years. This harmonization has not been without its controversies, however, and is characterized by two inter-linked political disputes that have shaped the progress achieved thus far. The...