Liberal States and the Freedom of Movement

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Steffen Mau, Heike Brabandt, Lena Laube, Christof Roos

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3. Nation-State Building and the Regulation of Mobility

   • Steffen Mau, Heike Brabandt, Lena Laube, Christof Roos

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4. Globalization and the Challenge of Mobility

   • Steffen Mau, Heike Brabandt, Lena Laube, Christof Roos

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5. Visa Policies and the Regulation of Territorial Access

   • Steffen Mau, Heike Brabandt, Lena Laube, Christof Roos

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6. The Spatial Flexibilization of Border Control

   • Steffen Mau, Heike Brabandt, Lena Laube, Christof Roos

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7. Internationalization of Border Policies

   • Steffen Mau, Heike Brabandt, Lena Laube, Christof Roos

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8. Varieties of Border Policies

   • Steffen Mau, Heike Brabandt, Lena Laube, Christof Roos

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9. New Control and Selectivity Arrangements

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10. Back Matter

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State borders regulate cross-border mobility and determine peoples' chances to travel, work, and study across the globe. This book looks at how global mobility is defined by borders in 2011 in comparison to the 1970s. The authors trace the transformation of OECD-state borders in recent decades and show how borders have become ever more selective.

• globalization
• internationalization
• mobility
• transformation
• work

“The book, published in 2012, is well-researched and competently written. It delineates a much more nuanced picture of cross-border migrations and related state policies than mainstream media and political rhetoric usually allow for. … it should appeal to the cool-minded academic wishing to grasp the mechanisms for inclusion and exclusion that inter-state borders still represent and implement, especially in the so-called developed countries of our planet.” (Giorgio Baruchello, The European Legacy, Vol. 22 (3), 2017)

'This latest work emerging out of the prodigious Bremen School of State Transformation shows that state borders do not disappear in an age of globalization. Instead, borders become more selective, open to a courted few, but closed to the vast majority of humankind. With theoretical sophistication and methodological rigor, this excellent book shows better than any other book I know how states control mobility in our fast-changing world.' - Christian Joppke, Professor, University of Bern, Switzerland

'A fresh and innovative comparative perspective with historical depth, this accessible book builds upon the-state-of-the-art to ask key questions about state borders in the OECD world today: who is excluded by these 'semi-permeable filters,' why, how and by whom?' - Virginie Guiraudon, Research Professor, Sciences Po Center for European Studies, Paris, France

• Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany

  Steffen Mau

• University of Bremen, Germany

  Heike Brabandt, Lena Laube, Christof Roos

STEFFEN MAU Professor of Political Sociology and Comparative Social Research at the University of Bremen, Germany. He works in the fields of European integration, borders and mobility, comparative welfare research and social inequality. His recent publications include Social Transnationalism Lifeworlds beyond the Nation State and European Societies: Mapping Structure and Change (with Roland Verwiebe.)

HEIKE BRABANDT Research Associate at the Collobarative Centre on 'Transformations of the State' at the University of Bremen, Germany. She is interested in the diffusion of international norms and the role of the legal system. She has published on these issues as well as on gendered persecution, human rights and migration.

LENA LAUBE Research Associate at the Collaborative Research Centre on 'Transformations of the State' at Bremen University, Germany. She is interested in border and migration studies, global mobility regimes and social inequality.
CHRISTOF ROOS PhD fellow at Bremen International Graduate School for Social Sciences and a research associate at the Collaborative Research Centre on 'Transformations of the State' at Bremen University, Germany. His main interest lies in EU integration and migration policy research.

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