Immigration, Integration and the Law

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A Baker & Taylor Academic Essentials Title in Area/Ethnic Studies: Multicultural Studies 'What does it mean to integrate or to be integrated? The European Union is based on the objective of the ever closer union of the peoples of Europe which is to be achieved by the integration of our economies. This book examines what it means to take the concept of integration from its setting in economic policy and apply to individuals, inevitably non EU citizens, as a way of categorising them with legal implications. The research is crisp and incisive and a pleasure to read. This book extends our understanding of the relationship of people belonging and law in Europe.' Elspeth Guild, Queen Mary, University of London, UK and Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands 'ClA-odhna Murphy's book is a well written expose of a very complex matter. She manages to make theoretical and legal approaches to integration, as well as connections between law, integration and social realities digestible for the reader while covering the international, European, as well as national level in her analysis. Additionally, she does not shy away from developing and applying her own definition of integration in order to underpin her human-rights based paradigm of integration? - something not easily done by other authors.' Moritz Jesse, Leiden University, the Netherlands 'The relationship between integration, law and policy remains a contested one at national, European and international arenas. Critical questions related to identity, diversity and mobility are increasingly intertwined with law in the normative realms of migration and citizenship. This nexus however poses a number of human rights and liberty challenges to the European Union and its Member States. This book provides an excellent analysis of the issues and tensions emerging from the relationship between integration and law from the perspective of states' international and European law obligations.' Sergio Carrera