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Article: Fahrmeier, Andrea, Olivier Faron, and Patrick Weil, eds. Migration Control in the North Atlantic World: the Evolution of State Practices in Europe and the United States from the French Revolution to the Inter-War Period.(Book Review)
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- September 22, 2003
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New York: Berghahn Books 322 pp., $75.00, ISBN 1-57181-812-X Publication Date: December 2002
The study of international migration as a social and economic phenomenon has flourished in the last thirty years. Increasingly, however, scholars have realized that international migration also needs to be studied as a political and administrative phenomenon. The eighteen essays in Migration Control in the North Atlantic World look at how governments in Europe and the United States between the French Revolution and the Great Depression defined who was and was not a citizen, who could migrate, and how migrants would be treated. The editors and contributors--from Austria, ...