Few, if any phenomena affecting Western Europe as a whole since 1945 have been more far-reaching in their immediate effects or more potentially destabilizing to politics and society over the long term than the accumulative experience of immigration. Messina and his contributors analyze why the major immigrant-receiving states of Western Europe historically permitted and often abetted relatively high levels of postwar migration, and they assess how contemporary governments attempt to govern immigration flows and manage the domestic social and political fallout which it inevitably yields.
The central purpose of the volume is to address these questions within the context of the decision-making logics that have demonstratively governed postwar migration to Western Europe in each of its three distinct, but interrelated waves or phases-labor migration, family migration, and humanitarian or forced migration. Messina demonstrates that postwar migration to Western Europe, in all of its phases, has been governed by a set of mutually reinforcing and mostly compatible logics. Of these-the economic, the humanitarian, and the political-the political has predominated over time and is likely to continue doing so into the indefinite future. A major cross-disciplinary analysis that will appeal to political scientists, sociologists, and general researchers and scholars of ethnicity, race relations, and comparative public policy.

ANTHONY M. MESSINA is Associate Professor at The Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame. Professor Messina has written extensively on ethnic minorites, including his co-edited Ethnic and Racial Minorities in Advanced Industrial Democracies (Greenwood Press, 1992).

Preface
Introduction, by Anthony M. Messina
The Politics of State Immigration Policy
Continuity and Change in Postwar French Legalization Policy by Mark J. Miller
State Responses to Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Europe by Gil Loescher
Mass Migration to Europe: Demographic Salvation, Essential Labor, or Unwanted Foreigners? by D.A. Coleman
Winners and Losers: Politics and the Costs and Benefits of Migration by Gary P. Freeman
The Logics and Politics of a European Immigration Regime by Anthony M. Messina and Colleen V. Thoyez
The Economic, Political, and Social Determinants of Immigrant Incorporation
New and Old Immigrant Minorities in Western Europe: The Challenge of Incorporation by Barbara Schmitter Heisler
Do Immigrant Entrepreneurs Play the Game of Ethnic Musical Chairs? A Critique of Waldinger's Model of Immigrant Incorporation by Jan Rath
Cultural Minority Rights in Public Education: Religious and Language Instruction for Immigrant Communities in Western Europe by Rainer Bauböck
Immigrant Minorities in Europe: A Melting Pot in the Making? by Alec G. Hargreaves
Conclusions by Anthony M. Messina
References
Index