ABSTRACT
Scholars outside political science have largely neglected the political dimensions of migration, even so obvious a topic as state regulation of population flows. Students of politics, for their part, have typically ignored migration altogether. Those political scientists working on migration issues have found audiences mainly among sociologists, anthropologists, historians and most often have operated in multidisciplinary settings (Massey et al., 1998). They have scarcely touched political science as a discipline. This may in part reflect the fact that the fledgling political science of immigration has been theoretically weak, focusing on thick description and of the pants interpretation, and given to normative posturing and disputation.
