Migration Control and State Power

我的论文项目旨在改变我们对西方民主国家和国际层面上的移民政治的理解。到目前为止，政治学家在很大程度上忽视了1920年代移民政治在制度和观念上的发展所产生的持久影响。虽然19世纪末移民政治的特点是“自由时刻”，但欧洲和美国的“开放边境”传统在第一次世界大战后结束了。面对来自东欧的移民，大多数西欧国家和美国都制定了限制性和孤立主义的移民政策。从这一点起，移民政策与经济和贸易考虑分开，移民被视为潜在的威胁来源，而不是机会。通过借鉴关键时刻和路径依赖的论点，并通过将德国、英国和美国的政治发展与荷兰的发展进行比较，我试图表明，这种制度和观念的转变并不是预先确定的，因为自由和多边替代方案是可行的。因此，1920年代应被视为现代移徙管理发展的关键时刻。我建议通过档案研究分析管理越境流动的规范、规则和组织的发展以及人的建立，特别是对移民概念观念的发展，以表明在此期间做出的决定影响到今天的移民政治。我的研究成果有三个方面：首先，它将把20世纪20年代作为国际移民治理和国家移民规则制定的政治研究的关键时期。我将通过使用关键时刻分析和扩展德斯蒙德·金、罗杰斯·史密斯和露西·梅布林发展的概念和制度路径依赖理论模型来将过去与现在联系起来。其次，通过扩展我以前的研究和出版物，我的研究将增加关于两次世界大战之间国际主义的日益增长的文献，特别是通过强调在20世纪20年代构建自由的全球移民制度的尝试，增加其持续的政治遗产。第三，我的研究报告提出了最近关于如何在国际上有效管理“人员有序流动”以及如何在国家一级应对大规模移徙流动的建议，具有相当大的政策影响。

My dissertation project aims at changing our understanding of migration politics in Western democracies and on the international level. Political scientists have so far largely ignored the lasting impact of the institutional and ideational developments of migration politics during the 1920s. While the late 19th century had been characterised by a "liberal moment" in migration politics, the European and American "open border" tradition came to an end after WWI. In the face of migration from Eastern Europe, most Western European states and the US enacted restrictive and isolationist migration policies. From this point onwards, migration policies were separated from economic and trade considerations and immigration was framed as a potential source of threat rather than opportunity. By drawing from critical juncture and path-dependency arguments and by comparing political developments in Germany, the UK and the US with developments in the Netherlands, I set out to show that this institutional and ideational shift was not pre-determined as liberal and multilateral alternatives would have been viable. The 1920s should thus be seen as a critical juncture in the development of modern migration governance. I propose to analyse the development of norms, rules, and organisations governing trans-boundary movements as well as the establishment of people, and especially the development of ideational perceptions of migration through archival research to show that the decisions made during that time affect migration politics to this day. The payoffs of my study are threefold: First, it will introduce the 1920s as a key period to the political study of international migration governance and national migration rulemaking. I will link the past to the present by using critical juncture analysis and extending a theoretical model of ideational and institutional path-dependency developed by Desmond King, Rogers Smith, and Lucy Mayblin. Secondly, by expanding on my previous research and publications, my study will add to the growing literature on internationalism between the wars and especially its continuing political legacy by highlighting the attempts to construct a liberal global migration regime during the 1920s. Thirdly, my study has considerable policy implications by extending recent suggestions on how to effectively regulate the "orderly movement of people" on the international and how to respond to large-scale migration movements on the national level.