Strangers and Settlers: Migration Politics in a Local's World (Oxford Studies in Migration and Citizenship)

Do people have special rights in a place if they are one of the locals there?The belief that they do is common worldwide. Yet, entitlement to place has little role in most accounts of migration politics.Instead, migration politics commentary is a showdown between culture and economics, in-group identities and material incentives.In Strangers and Settlers, Bethany Lacina provides the first global study of nativism that features a unified account of the drivers of backlash against international and domestic migration.Drawing from forty years of global public opinion surveys conducted in 146 countries; detailed census records from 70 countries spanning the mid-1950s to now; and a wealth of comparative information on both migration policy and nativist activism, Lacina describes a world of nested hierarchies of locals, offering new insights about migration politics.As she shows, both domestic and international migration politics take place within a nativist status quo.Being local is normati