Skip to main content
  • Book
  • © 2020

Migration, Borders and Citizenship

Between Policy and Public Spheres

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Takes a novel approach to border studies by focusing on the disjunctions between how this is tackled in the policy and public domains
  • Examines wide range of international conventions, national frameworks, local policies and private civil society actors
  • Advances key debates on the criminalization of solidarity, local migration governance, denizenship and the construction of citizenship

Part of the book series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship (MDC)

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 119.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 159.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 159.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check for access.

Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. The Politics of Borders and the Borders of Politics: A Conceptual Framework

    • Maurizio Ambrosini, Manlio Cinalli, David Jacobson
    Pages 1-26
  3. From Borders to Seams: The Role of Citizenship

    • Manlio Cinalli, David Jacobson
    Pages 27-45
  4. Borders and Migrations: The Fundamental Contradictions

    • Catherine Wihtol de Wenden
    Pages 47-60
  5. Research on Migration, Borders and Citizenship: The Way Ahead

    • Maurizio Ambrosini, Manlio Cinalli, David Jacobson
    Pages 295-305
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 307-309

About this book

This edited collection goes beyond the limited definition of borders as simply dividing lines across states, to uncover another, yet related, type of division: one that separates policies and institutions from public debate and contestation. 


Bringing together expertise from established and emerging academics, it examines the fluid and varied borderscape across policy and the public domains. The chapters encompass a wide range of analyses that covers local, national and transnational frameworks, policies and private actors. In doing so, Migration, Borders and Citizenship reveals the tensions between border control and state economic interests; legal frameworks designed to contain criminality and solidarity movements; international conventions, national constitutions and local migration governance; and democratic and exclusive constructions of citizenship. 


This novel approach to the politics of borders willappeal to sociologists, political scientists and geographers working in the fields of migration, citizenship, urban geography and human rights; in addition to students and scholars of security studies and international relations.



Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    Maurizio Ambrosini

  • CEVIPOF, Sciences Po, Paris, France

    Manlio Cinalli

  • Department of Sociology, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA

    David Jacobson

About the editors

Maurizio Ambrosini is Professor of Sociology of Migration at the University of Milan, Italy, and Chargé d’enseignement at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France.


Manlio Cinalli is Professor of Sociology at the University of Milan, Italy and Associate Research Director at CEVIPOF, Sciences Po Paris, France.


David Jacobson is Professor of Sociology at the University of South Florida, USA.





Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Migration, Borders and Citizenship

  • Book Subtitle: Between Policy and Public Spheres

  • Editors: Maurizio Ambrosini, Manlio Cinalli, David Jacobson

  • Series Title: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22157-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22156-0Published: 02 September 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22159-1Published: 02 September 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-22157-7Published: 22 August 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2662-2602

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-2610

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 309

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Migration, Sociology of Citizenship, Public Policy, International Security Studies, Transnational Crime

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 119.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 159.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 159.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access