This work shows that immigration is a phenomenon that has been wanted by the ruling class of the Western countries more than sustained as a necessity. 

Immigration is also more "political" than "economic": in a first stage, it secures the economic retribution of the ruling group but, in a second stage, it perpetuates the older, authoritarian ways to govern society, via the reconstruction of a new proletariat and the lengthening of the class structure. 

Finally, immigration is a powerful factor of cultural anomie in our societies, favoring the atomization of society, destroying communitarian links, and eventually strengthening the power of the state, thus elevated to the status of main regulator and only guarantor of the social link.

KEYWORDS

Migration Policy - Immigration - Identity - Ethnicity - Culture - State - Power Strategies. 

AUTHORS PRESENTATION

This book is the product of a collective work by a pluridisciplinary team.

• Patrick HUNOUT is a social psychologist and a senior researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research. His research concerns mental models as the driving or braking factor in the context of contemporary social change. In this perspective, he applies his approach to several fields crucial for the current transformations : Capital-Labor Relationships, Interethnic Relationships, and Interpersonal Relationships.

• Albert BASTENIER is a sociologist at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium.

• Otto DANN is a historian at the University of Cologne, Germany.

• Jacques DEMORGON is a social psychologist, professor emeritus at the Technological University of Compiègne, France.

• Dominique DUPREZ is a sociologist, Researcher at CLERSE research group, University of Lille, France.

• Michel GRIGNON is an economist at the "Centre de Recherches en Economie de la Santé" (CREDES) in Paris, France.

• Jean-Robert HENRY is a sociologist, Director of Research at Institute for Research on the Mediterranean and Arabic World (IREMAM), in Aix-en-Provence, France.

• Marina HILY is a sociologist, Researcher at MIGRINTER research group in Poitiers, France.

• Hagen KORDES is a sociologist, professor at the University of Münster, Germany.

• Hervé LE BRAS is a demographer, Director of Studies at the " Ecole des Hautes Etudes " in Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and a Director of Research at the " Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques " (INED) in Paris, France.

• Rainer MÜNZ is a demographer, professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.

• Bernhard NAUCK is a sociologist, professor at the Technical University of Chemnitz.

• Peter NOACK is a psychologist, professor at the University of Iena, Germany.

• Rainer OHLIGER is a demographer at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.

• Michel ORIOL is a sociologist, professor emeritus at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France.

• Thomas K. SCHIPPERS is an ethnologist at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France, and collaborates at the " Institut d’Ethnologie Méditerranéenne et Comparative " (IDEMEC) in Aix-en-Provence, France.

• Wolfgang SEIFERT is a demographer, professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.

• Pierre TAP is a social psychologist, professor at the University of Toulouse Le Mirail, France.

• Michèle TRIBALAT is a demographer at the " Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques " (INED) in Paris, France.

• Ulrich WAGNER is a psychologist, professor at the University of Marburg, Germany.

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