ABSTRACT
The argument of this book has been organised around the concept of civic stratification, that is, the system of inequality generated through the differential granting of rights by the state. For migrants this system finds formal expression in the range of immigration statuses and the associated rules of transition which govern duration and security of stay. I have so far explored three different national systems of civic stratification or stratified rights with respect to migration. As we have seen, the questions posed in the course of such work and the material they have generated connect very closely with the related literature on citizenship, thus providing a starting point for discussion of the gendered and racialised dimensions of migrants’ rights.
