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Building Walls, Bounding Nations: Migration and Exclusion in Canada and Germany, 1870–1939
Author(s) -
Triadafilopoulos Triadafilos
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of historical sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-6443
pISSN - 0952-1909
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6443.2004.00238.x
Subject(s) - nationalism , citizenship , sovereignty , state (computer science) , dilemma , political science , immigration , political economy , racism , capitalism , universalism , popularity , development economics , sociology , law , economics , philosophy , politics , computer science , epistemology , algorithm
Transformations in global capitalism increased rates of international migration at the turn of the twentieth century, a period also marked by the widespread popularity of scientific racism, integral nationalism, and vaunted notions of state sovereignty. This paper considers how the intersection of these factors influenced migration and citizenship policymaking in Canada and Germany. In both cases, migration was harnessed to further economic objectives while groups deemed a threat to national integration because of their putative racial or ethno‐national characteristics were excluded. The resultant policies would come to define Canada and Germany’s approaches to the migration‐membership dilemma for the much of the twentieth century.