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First edition: January 2016 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Possibility, Feasibility and Mesolevel Interventions in Migration Policy and Practice Christian Matheis and Harald Bauder 1 1 Refuge and Refusal: Credibility Assessment, Status Determination and Making It Feasible for Refugees to Say “No” Christian Matheis 17 2 Latino/a Immigration: A Refutation of the Social Trust Argument José Jorge Mendoza 37 3 Complementing Schengen: The Dublin System and the European Border and Migration Regime Bernd Kasparek 59 4 Domicile Citizenship, Migration and the City Harald Bauder 79 5 The Model Migrant and Multiculturalism: Analyzing Neoliberal Logics in US Sanctuary Legislation Serin D. Houston and Olivia Lawrence-Weilmann 101 6 Nature, Place and the Politics of Migration John Hultgren 127 7 State-Based Immigration Efforts and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs): An Experiment in Alabama Eli C. S. Jamison 149 8 Black, Poor and Jewish: The Ostracism of Ethiopian Jews in Modern Israel Holly A. Jordan 175 Notes on Contributors 191 Index 195 vii Preface Migration Policy and Practice has its origins in a paper session titled O pen Borders, Migration, and Labor Shadows: From Theorizing Causes to Proposing Interventions, which we organized for the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Tampa, FL. This session laid the foundation for the contents and focus of the book in two impor- tant ways. First, Migration Policy and Practice has been conceived as a conversation across disciplines. We, the session organizers and editors of this volume, have different disciplinary backgrounds in Geography and Philosophy. In our view, both Geography and Philosophy are well positioned to lead cross-disciplinary normative explorations in borders, migration and citizenship due to the way these two fields propagate ques- tions of space, territory and place (Geography), and discern foundational biases in order to foster conceptual resources in the interest of practical wisdom (Philosophy). Second, we are drawing from different national experiences of migration. Correspondingly, this volume is not restricted to one particular national context. Rather, developing critical interven- tions and practical solutions requires looking beyond national particu- larities and, in some cases, the national scale. Migration Policy and Practice benefits not only from different disciplinary backgrounds of the chapter contributors but also from their variable posi- tions in the academic field. As editors, we exemplify these complementary positions. Christian Matheis is a recent PhD graduate in the Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought (ASPECT) from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. As an emerging scholar he is well in tune with novel research trends in ethical and political thought, policy currents and the generational challenges to established paradigms in critical scholarship. Conversely, Harald Bauder is an established scholar with considerable publishing experience who has acquired a substantial overview of the fields of migration, border and citizenship and the prac- tical application of research in policymaking and activism through his past teaching, research and participation in interdisciplinary research teams. The original session participants all committed to contributing to this book. After the conference in Tampa, we invited additional chapter authors who could provide complementary disciplinary and regional perspectives. ix x Preface We envision the primary audience of M igration Policy and Practice to include academics, researchers, advanced students, agents of administra- tive institutions and community-based activists with an interest in borders, migration, refugee issues, asylum, cross-border mobility and citizenship. The chapters are generally written in a language suitable for graduate and upper-level undergraduate teaching, making the book applicable to interdisciplinary courses; instructors may also use individual chapters as supplementary material in discipline-particular courses. We have taken great lengths to gather contributions that will appeal to a wide audience of policy makers, practitioners, scholars, and activists. The collection will interest policymakers and practitioners who are working with “realist” or bureaucratic interests, and to those who will find the resources accessible as touchstones for reconsidering their roles as agents of change. Scholars with an interest in knowledge creation will find the empirical and theoretical dimensions of the book engaging. Activists and grassroots movement will be able to draw on the ideas presented in Migration Policy and Practice to inform their long-term and issue-based campaigns. While the empirical chapters focus on North America, Europe and Israel, we believe that the critical interventions and policy solutions as well as the theoretical discussion presented in the individual chapters can be applied by activists, researchers and policymakers in a variety of contexts and will therefore be of interest to a global audience. Taken as case examples of theory-driven interventions, the case studies and local- ized analyses given in each chapter offer templates for proposing similar interventions in other contexts. We hope you, the reader, will find the following pages stimulating and useful in widening the current horizon of debate and policymaking related to one of the important issues of our time. HARALD BAUDER and CHRISTIAN MATHEIS Toronto and Blacksburg, January 2015 Acknowledgments Harald Bauder and Christian Matheis We thank Robin Cohen and Zig Layton-Henry for providing feedback and for including this book in the Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship book series. At Palgrave Macmillan we thank Nicola Jones and Elaine Fan for their guidance and assistance in getting this book ready, and former editor Lani Oshima for commissioning the book. At Newgen Knowledge Works we thank Kamlesh Pant for his editorial inputs. We also thank the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for support, Meaghan Symington for research assistance, and Peter Nyers and Sarah Elwood for comments. Serin D. Houston and Olivia Lawrence-Weilmann We would like to thank Kiana Lussier and Charlotte Morse for excellent collaboration and research assistance with the larger project from which this chapter stems. We also extend our gratitude to the Dean of Faculty at Mount Holyoke College for funding the research assistantships associated with this project. Finally, many thanks to the editors and reviewers for instructive comments and useful feedback. xi