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Systems of labor mobility across borders in which states assign a fixed duration to workers' sojourn—temporary labor migration schemes (TLMSs)—have enabled employers to recruit workers while claiming to avoid the presumed negative consequences of settlement and integration. While existing explanations of TLMSs focus primarily on structural determinants, this article introduces a cumulative contextual model. It begins with a political-economic analysis of labor migration and addresses its gaps by adding an analysis of the ideological legitimations of TLMSs, as well as a consideration of the complex of rules and organizations that implement and regulate state-managed temporary migration. Building on this approach, I propose a typology of TLMSs according to dominant actors, rules that govern the labor relationship, and the gap between discourse about the goals of TLMSs and outcomes. The analysis has implications for immigration and citizenship regimes, for their assumptions of permanence, and for the nature of work.

This article outlines a research agenda to study how, why, and with what consequences systems of migration policy that rely on time-delimited statuses have been tools of nation-state making. Taking a long view and comparing key contemporary cases, I argue that temporary migration regimes have been appealing because they purport to reconcile the disparate interests and preferences of political actors in sending and receiving countries, native and foreign workers, and employers. Such regimes have been a means for the affirmative selection of migrants as workers—an approach that preserves the option of rejecting them as permanent members. The proposed research would uncover the full range of temporal means by which states have shaped populations through migration policy. Substantively, it explores how changes in the ratio of temporary to permanent statuses affect the meaning of political belonging. This would include an examination of how the policing of temporariness requires routine bureaucratic monitoring as well as extreme measures like deportation with consequences for migrants as well as for the communities in which they live.

Culling the Masses questions the widely held view that in the long run democracy and racism cannot coexist. David Scott FitzGerald and David Cook-Martín show that democracies were the first countries in the Americas to select immigrants by race, and undemocratic states the first to outlaw discrimination.

In writing Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas, David FitzGerald and David Cook-Martín sought to explore the complex historical relationship between immigration, democracy and racism. Drawing on a comparative analytical framework, they produced a historically informed account of the origins of racist policies on immigration in a range of countries in the Americas. Their account has attracted the attention of scholars working in a wide range of different national contexts. As editors, we feel that their arguments will be of interest to readers of Ethnic and Racial Studies Review and we are pleased that the various scholars we invited to take part in this symposium took up the challenge of discussing key themes in Culling the Masses. In the end, we have brought together five critical commentaries on the book and the authors provide a robust response to the key arguments to be found in the commentaries. In writing Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas, David FitzGerald and David Cook-Martín sought to explore the complex historical relationship between immigration, democracy and racism. Drawing on a comparative analytical framework, they produced a historically informed account of the origins of racist policies on immigration in a range of countries in the Americas. Their account has attracted the attention of scholars working in a wide range of different national contexts. As editors, we feel that their arguments will be of interest to readers of Ethnic and Racial Studies Review and we are pleased that the various scholars we invited to take part in this symposium took up the challenge of discussing key themes in Culling the Masses. In the end, we have brought together five critical commentaries on the book and the authors provide a robust response to the key arguments to be found in the commentaries.

Intro -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Organizational Landscape: From Eugenics to Anti- Racism -- 3. The United States: Paragon of Liberal Democracy and Racism -- 4. Canada: Between Neighbor and Empire -- 5. Cuba: Whitening an Island -- 6. Mexico: Selecting Those Who Never Came -- 7. Brazil: Selling the Myth of Racial Democracy -- 8. Argentina: Crucible of European Nations? -- 9. Conclusion -- Appendix: Ethnic Selection in Sixteen Countries -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Enthält Rezensionen von:‡‡Culling the masses: the democratic origins of racist immigration policy in the Americas /David S. Fitzgerald and David Cook-Martin - Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014‡‡A liberal tide? Immigration and asylum law and policy in Latin America / David James Cantor, Luisa Feline Freier and Jean-Pierre Gauci (eds) - London: Institute of Latin American Studies, 2015‡‡Migration governance across regions: state-diaspora relations in the Latin American-Southern Europe corridor / Ana Margheritis - Abingdon ...: Routledge, 2016