Anthony M. Messina

Bio: Anthony M. Messina is an academic researcher from University of Notre Dame. The author has contributed to research in topics: Immigration & Politics. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 41 publications receiving 1024 citations. Previous affiliations of Anthony M. Messina include Stony Brook University & Trinity College (Connecticut).

The Logics and Politics of Post-WWII Migration to Western Europe

Abstract: 1. Introduction: immigration and state sovereignty 2. The origins and trajectory of post-WWII immigration 3. The organized nativist backlash: the surge of anti-immigrant groups 4. Immigration and state sovereignty: implications of the British and German cases 5. The logics and politics of a European immigration policy regime 6. The domestic legacies of postwar immigration: citizenship, monoculturalism, and the Keynesian welfare state 7. The logics and politics of immigrant political incorporation.

Muslims and the State in Britain, France, and Germany

Abstract: Muslims and the State in Britain, France, and Germany. By Joel S. Fetzer and J. Christopher Soper. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 224p. $60.00 cloth, $14.99 paper. The central question of Joel Fetzer and J. Christopher Soper's well-written and highly accessible book—how to explain the disparate political responses to the religious concerns of Muslims in Britain, France, and Germany—is clearly important. Indeed, while the question was pertinent before the tragedy of September 11 in 2001 and the American invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, it has become exponentially more urgent since. Although the difficulties of incorporating Muslim populations into the countries receiving them were neither a cause of nor directly connected to the aforementioned events, the negative chain reaction they subsequently precipitated within and outside of the diverse Muslim community within Western Europe nevertheless exposed serious tensions between many of the community's religious practices and the dominant cultural, social, and political mores of the host societies. In short, the answer to the book's organizing question very much matters for Western Europe's political, religious, and social tranquility.

Race and party competition in Britain

Abstract: List of figures List of maps List of tables Introduction Political consensus and the depoliticization of race Depoliticizing race locally: The role of community relations councils Ethnic-minority representation and local party competition: The case of Ealing Borough Race and the emergence of anti-consensus forces: Enoch Powell, the National Front, and the Anti-Nazi League The repoloticization of race Labour's non-white constituency Conclusions select bibliography, Index

The migration reader: exploring politics and policies

Abstract: The Migration Reader introduces the key articles and documents that analyze the complex phenomenon of transnational migration and the challenges it poses for contemporary societies, states, and international relations. Enhanced by the editors' commentary, the selections identify concepts and trends in international migration, review the historical origins of contemporary migration and refugee regimes, consider immigration politics and policies, and explore migration in a global context. The result is an intellectual window through which students can better understand the changes occurring in the international environment and in state-society relations within both affluent and less-developed countries.

The Not So Silent Revolution Postwar Migration to Western Europe

Abstract: In the 1990s scholars working within the subfield of immigration studies in Western Europe have advanced four major arguments. (1) In a liberal era of global economic markets the capacity of states to govern their territorial borders has significantly eroded. (2) The widespread diffusion of liberal norms has severely inhibited the ability of governments to execute a rational immigrant policy. (3) The experience of mass immigration has transformed the boundaries of national citizenship. And 4) postwar immigration has fostered the surge of radical right-wing populist movements. This article evaluates these arguments in light of the evidence presented in both the collected scholarship under review and other select works. It concludes by arguing the case for new scholarly initiatives to synthesize and unify the separate literatures represented by the volumes under review.

The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion.

Abstract: Originally published in Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 1994, Vol 39(2), 225. Reviews the book, The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion by John Zaller (1992). The author's commendable effort to specify a model of mass opinion formation offers readers an introduction to the prevailing vi

Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany.

Abstract: Preface Introduction: Traditions of Nationhood in France and Germany I. The Institution of Citizenship 1. Citizenship as Social Closure 2. The French Revolution and the Invention of National Citizenship 3. State, State-System, and Citizenship in Germany II. Defining The Citizenry: The Bounds of Belonging 4. Citizenship and Naturalization in France and Germany 5. Migrants into Citizens: The Crystallization of Jus Soli in Late-Nineteenth-Century France 6. The Citizenry as Community of Descent: The Nationalization of Citizenship in Wilhelmine Germany 7. \"Etre Francais, Cela se Merite\": Immigration and the Politics of Citizenship in France in the 1980s 8. Continuities in the German Politics of Citizenship Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index