Download or read book Of States, Rights, and Social Closure written by Oliver Schmidtke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-12-25 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do nation-states act to facilitate or limit immigration and integration, how and why? How do nation-states themselves transform in understanding and interpreting rights respond to immigration? Does the European Union make a difference in terms of how immigrants are perceived or how they act as stakeholders in liberal democracies?