Migration, Citizenship and the Global Refugee Crisis

ABSTRACT

The author suggests that Stephen Castles’ contributions to migration studies are threefold: an analytical investigation of the nexus between migration and citizenship, a global approach to migration with a particular emphasis on new migration regions and finally a sustained critical perspective towards refugee and migration policies that are implemented in Western countries. Applying Stephen Castles’ ideas to the French case, the author argues that the French model of migrant incorporation would benefit from an acknowledgment of the ‘multicultural reality’ in France, a balance between the will to control immigration and the demand for immigrant workers and finally a critical assessment of the immigration laws and their outcomes.

KEYWORDS:

• Citizenship
• migration
• refugees
• Global South
• Asia
• Oceania
• Australia
• France

Disclosure Statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

Notes on contributor

Catherine Wihtol de Wenden is a political scientist, specialist in international migration, research director at the CNRS and she is attached to the CERI, laboratory of Science Po Paris. Has published over a dozen books and many articles in peer-reviewed journals on international migration, governance, refugees and French society.