Description
This paper introduces the draft for a book in-progress that is based on my dissertation about the social (re)construction of state immigration control in the international community from historical perspective.
My paper addresses an ontological question of immigration control that has rarely been tackled by conventional studies of global politics/migration, except for normative theorists' works and a few works by scholars of sociology/international relations.
The paper challenges the conventional perspective of taking immigration control as given/rational, and contests prevalent rationales for controlling immigration such as increasing migration-influx or anti-migrant sentiment/parties.
The author focuses on crucial historical changes of modes of state behaviour toward immigration that leads to the (re)building of institutions of immigration control in modern nation-states. Central to these changes is the vicissitude of liberal/nationalist and illiberal/nationalist ideas of migration/migrants shared intersubjectively by significant actors, including norms of state behaviour. My paper contextualises these transformations into structural changes in the international system and into the development of social modernity/late modernity.
My paper is divided into four parts.
Firstly, the author overviews previous studies and introduces theoretical frameworks.
Next part clarifies decisive turning points for state behaviour throughout history and defines state immigration control.
Thirdly, the author elucidates how prototypes of institutions have been intersubjectively (re)constructed in significant destination states. Specifically, this paper sheds light on two processes: how immigration has been politically (re)discovered’ and (re)objectified; how immigration issues have been put into agendas of national policy.
The last part concerns the dissemination of prototypes through the global community and the shift in institutions along developing late modernity, including extraterritoriality principle.
Theoretical frameworks are based on IR-social constructivist/sociological institutionalist studies and sociological theories, including the Foucauldian studies of governmentality.
Document analysis is conducted primarily through discursive/narrative analysis regarding crucial enactments. Documents encompass parliamentary protocols, administrative/legal (archival) documents and secondary literature.
