States Against Migrants

Antje Ellermann is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. Her work has been published in Comparative Political Studies, West European Politics, and Government and Opposition. She has been the recipient of research grants from the Social Science Research Council in the United States and, in Canada, from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.

• 1. A Theory of Socially Coercive State Capacity; 2. The Legislative Politics of Migration Control; 3. Deportation and the Executive Politics of Implementation; 4. Deportation and the Street-Level Politics of Implementation; 5. Conclusion.

“In States Against Migrants Antje Ellermann provides an insightful and scrupulously researched examination of the practice of deportation across two countries and offers a subtle and original examination of the nature of the contemporary regulatory state. This is compelling political science.” -Matthew J. Gibney, University of Oxford