ABSTRACT
Given its concern with phenomena of a fundamentally transnational character, migration research may be regarded as a particularly fruitful field for interdisciplinary approaches which bring together lawyers and political scientists inter-
in processes of internationalization. In the European context, for instance, lawyers might ask for the input of political scientists because the relative immaturity of the common European legal stock of migration laws requires a certain knowledge of the historical, political and institutional background of national provisions. Indeed, in recent years it has become increasingly fashionable for both lawyers and political scientists to emphasize the interdisciplinary character of their work, in particular in the sub-disciplines of comparative, international and European law on the one hand and comparative politics and international relations on the other.
