The Comparative Politics of Immigration
Thu 16 Oct
|Room 711, Building 19, Waseda University
Why do states that confront comparable immigration challenges oftentimes adopt remarkably different policy solutions? Why does immigration policy change radically at certain points in time? This seminar presents a theoretical framework for the comparative study of immigration policy-making.
Date and Venue
16 Oct 2025, 18:30 – 20:00 GMT+9
Room 711, Building 19, Waseda University, Japan, 〒169-0051 Tokyo, Shinjuku City, Nishiwaseda, 1-chōme−21−１ 早稲田大学 西早稲田ビルディング
About the Event
Speaker:
Professor Antje Ellermann (University of British Columbia)
Antje Ellermann is the Founder and Co-Director of the Centre for Migration Studies and a Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia, located on Musqueam territory in Vancouver. She is the author of the award-winning The Comparative Politics of Immigration: Policy Choices in Germany, Canada, Switzerland, and the United States (2021) and States Against Migration: Deportation in Germany and the United States (2009), both published by Cambridge University Press. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and is a former Co-President of the American Political Science Association’s Migration and Citizenship Section. Her research focuses on the politics of migration and citizenship in the global North. Current projects include several community-engaged research collaborations at the intersection of citizenship, belonging, and decolonization in Vancouver, alongside a comparative study of immigration bureaucracies in…