David Cook-Martín
Biographic Data
| ID | 147247 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Cook-Martín |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Cook-Martín |
| SIGNATURE | COOK-MARTÍN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Grinnell College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8459-4720 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 177 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Temporary migration and middle class nation building in Canada
This article explores the relationship between temporary labor migration programs (TLMPs) in the post-war era and middle-class nation-building. The analysis centers on Canada, an exemplary case of balancing the rights of foreign workers and national concerns. By examining two eras of Canadian TLMPs – one Keynesian and the other neoliberal – I foreground how and why temporariness has reemerged as a norm in (im)migration policy. Relative to TLMPs b…
Sojourners, Not Settlers: Temporary Labor Migration Since the Nineteenth Century
Systems of labor mobility across borders in which states assign a fixed duration to workers' sojourn-temporary labor migration schemes (TLMSs)-have enabled employers to recruit workers while claiming to avoid the presumed negative consequences of settlement and integration. While existing explanations of TLMSs focus primarily on structural determinants, this article introduces a cumulative contextual model. It begins with a political-economic ana…
The Spectre of Race: How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy
How Their Laws Affect our Laws: Mechanisms of Immigration Policy Diffusion in the Americas, 1790-2010
Why do laws become similar across countries? Is the adoption of similar laws and policies due to factors operating independently within each country? Do countries develop similar rules in response to similar challenges? Or is the similarity of laws and policies due to the interdependent responses that scholars have referred to as processes of policy convergence, transfer, and diffusion? We draw on an analysis of immigration and nationality laws o…
Temp Nations? A Research Agenda on Migration, Temporariness, and Membership
This article outlines a research agenda to study how, why, and with what consequences systems of migration policy that rely on time-delimited statuses have been tools of nation-state making. Taking a long view and comparing key contemporary cases, I argue that temporary migration regimes have been appealing because they purport to reconcile the disparate interests and preferences of political actors in sending and receiving countries, native and …
A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered: US Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924-1965
Can you become one of us? A historical comparison of legal selection of ‘assimilable’ immigrants in Europe and the Americas
Pre-arrival integration tests used by European countries suggest discriminatory measures subtly persist in immigration laws. This paper draws on a comparison across the Americas and Europe to identify and explain historical continuities and discontinuities in ‘assimilability’ admissions requirements. We attribute legal shifts at the turn of the twenty-first century to the institutionalised delegitimisation of biological racism and the rise of per…
The Effect of State Transfers on Poverty in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe
Contesting Immigration Policy in Court: Legal Activism and Its Radiating Effects in the United States and France, by Leila Kawar
Book review: Contesting Immigration Policy in Court: Legal Activism and Its Radiating Effects in the United States and France by Leila Kawar New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015, 232 pp
Alien Nation: Chinese Migration in the Americas from the Coolie Era through World War II
Journal Article Alien Nation: Chinese Migration in the Americas from the Coolie Era through World War II Get access By Elliott Young. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. xviii, 360 pp. Paper, $29.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 4, March 2016, Pages 1196–1197, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav799 Published: 01 March 2016
Immigration, Emigration, and Citizenship
Who Counts? Demography of Race and Ethnicity in Argentina
State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain: Republics of the Possible
Culling the Masses: A Rejoinder
In a 1964 speech in London, Martin Luther King assessed the struggle against segregation in the USA and apartheid in South Africa. He ended with a quote from a black slave preacher mapping the road
Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas
Culling the Masses questions the view that democracy and racism cannot coexist. Based on records from 22 countries 1790-2010, it offers a history of the rise and fall of racial selection in the Western Hemisphere, showing that democracies were first to select immigrants by race, and undemocratic states first to outlaw discrimination
Liberalism and the Limits of Inclusion: Race and Immigration Law in the Americas, 1850-2000
Most scholars argue that the global triumph of liberal norms within the last 150 years ended discriminatory immigration policy. Yet, the United States was a leader in the spread of policy restrictions aimed at Asian migrants during the early twentieth century, and authoritarian Latin American regimes removed racial discrimination from their immigration laws a generation before the United States and Canada did. By the same token, critical theorist…
Transnational Migration to Israel in Global Comparative Context
The Problem with Similarity: Ethnic-Affinity Migrants in Spain
Politics that give a privileged migratory or citizenship status to individuals abroad because of presumed common origins with a granting state's people foster the expectation that ethnic affinity facilitates social and economic integration. However, a growing literature has documented a mismatch between the social and the economic expectations of people defined as co-ethnics by these policies. Relying on a study of Spanish-descent Argentines who …
Immigration and the Transformation of Europe
Transnational Migration to Israel in Global Comparative Context
Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas
Culling the Masses questions the view that democracy and racism cannot coexist. Based on records from 22 countries 1790-2010, it offers a history of the rise and fall of racial selection in the Western Hemisphere, showing that democracies were first to select immigrants by race, and undemocratic states first to outlaw discrimination
Temp Nations? A Research Agenda on Migration, Temporariness, and Membership
This article outlines a research agenda to study how, why, and with what consequences systems of migration policy that rely on time-delimited statuses have been tools of nation-state making. Taking a long view and comparing key contemporary cases, I argue that temporary migration regimes have been appealing because they purport to reconcile the disparate interests and preferences of political actors in sending and receiving countries, native and …
The Problem with Similarity: Ethnic-Affinity Migrants in Spain
Politics that give a privileged migratory or citizenship status to individuals abroad because of presumed common origins with a granting state's people foster the expectation that ethnic affinity facilitates social and economic integration. However, a growing literature has documented a mismatch between the social and the economic expectations of people defined as co-ethnics by these policies. Relying on a study of Spanish-descent Argentines who …
Can you become one of us? A historical comparison of legal selection of ‘assimilable’ immigrants in Europe and the Americas
Pre-arrival integration tests used by European countries suggest discriminatory measures subtly persist in immigration laws. This paper draws on a comparison across the Americas and Europe to identify and explain historical continuities and discontinuities in ‘assimilability’ admissions requirements. We attribute legal shifts at the turn of the twenty-first century to the institutionalised delegitimisation of biological racism and the rise of per…
Liberalism and the Limits of Inclusion: Race and Immigration Law in the Americas, 1850-2000
Most scholars argue that the global triumph of liberal norms within the last 150 years ended discriminatory immigration policy. Yet, the United States was a leader in the spread of policy restrictions aimed at Asian migrants during the early twentieth century, and authoritarian Latin American regimes removed racial discrimination from their immigration laws a generation before the United States and Canada did. By the same token, critical theorist…
Sojourners, Not Settlers: Temporary Labor Migration Since the Nineteenth Century
Systems of labor mobility across borders in which states assign a fixed duration to workers' sojourn-temporary labor migration schemes (TLMSs)-have enabled employers to recruit workers while claiming to avoid the presumed negative consequences of settlement and integration. While existing explanations of TLMSs focus primarily on structural determinants, this article introduces a cumulative contextual model. It begins with a political-economic ana…
How Their Laws Affect our Laws: Mechanisms of Immigration Policy Diffusion in the Americas, 1790-2010
Why do laws become similar across countries? Is the adoption of similar laws and policies due to factors operating independently within each country? Do countries develop similar rules in response to similar challenges? Or is the similarity of laws and policies due to the interdependent responses that scholars have referred to as processes of policy convergence, transfer, and diffusion? We draw on an analysis of immigration and nationality laws o…
Temporary migration and middle class nation building in Canada
This article explores the relationship between temporary labor migration programs (TLMPs) in the post-war era and middle-class nation-building. The analysis centers on Canada, an exemplary case of balancing the rights of foreign workers and national concerns. By examining two eras of Canadian TLMPs – one Keynesian and the other neoliberal – I foreground how and why temporariness has reemerged as a norm in (im)migration policy. Relative to TLMPs b…
Immigration and the Transformation of Europe
The Effect of State Transfers on Poverty in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe
Culling the Masses: A Rejoinder
In a 1964 speech in London, Martin Luther King assessed the struggle against segregation in the USA and apartheid in South Africa. He ended with a quote from a black slave preacher mapping the road
Immigration and the Transformation of Europe
Transnational Migration to Israel in Global Comparative Context
The Problem with Similarity: Ethnic-Affinity Migrants in Spain
Politics that give a privileged migratory or citizenship status to individuals abroad because of presumed common origins with a granting state's people foster the expectation that ethnic affinity facilitates social and economic integration. However, a growing literature has documented a mismatch between the social and the economic expectations of people defined as co-ethnics by these policies. Relying on a study of Spanish-descent Argentines who …
Liberalism and the Limits of Inclusion: Race and Immigration Law in the Americas, 1850-2000
Most scholars argue that the global triumph of liberal norms within the last 150 years ended discriminatory immigration policy. Yet, the United States was a leader in the spread of policy restrictions aimed at Asian migrants during the early twentieth century, and authoritarian Latin American regimes removed racial discrimination from their immigration laws a generation before the United States and Canada did. By the same token, critical theorist…
Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas
Culling the Masses questions the view that democracy and racism cannot coexist. Based on records from 22 countries 1790-2010, it offers a history of the rise and fall of racial selection in the Western Hemisphere, showing that democracies were first to select immigrants by race, and undemocratic states first to outlaw discrimination
Immigration, Emigration, and Citizenship
Who Counts? Demography of Race and Ethnicity in Argentina
State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain: Republics of the Possible
Culling the Masses: A Rejoinder
In a 1964 speech in London, Martin Luther King assessed the struggle against segregation in the USA and apartheid in South Africa. He ended with a quote from a black slave preacher mapping the road
Contesting Immigration Policy in Court: Legal Activism and Its Radiating Effects in the United States and France, by Leila Kawar
Book review: Contesting Immigration Policy in Court: Legal Activism and Its Radiating Effects in the United States and France by Leila Kawar New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015, 232 pp
Alien Nation: Chinese Migration in the Americas from the Coolie Era through World War II
Journal Article Alien Nation: Chinese Migration in the Americas from the Coolie Era through World War II Get access By Elliott Young. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. xviii, 360 pp. Paper, $29.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 4, March 2016, Pages 1196–1197, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav799 Published: 01 March 2016
The Effect of State Transfers on Poverty in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe
A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered: US Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924-1965
Can you become one of us? A historical comparison of legal selection of ‘assimilable’ immigrants in Europe and the Americas
Pre-arrival integration tests used by European countries suggest discriminatory measures subtly persist in immigration laws. This paper draws on a comparison across the Americas and Europe to identify and explain historical continuities and discontinuities in ‘assimilability’ admissions requirements. We attribute legal shifts at the turn of the twenty-first century to the institutionalised delegitimisation of biological racism and the rise of per…
How Their Laws Affect our Laws: Mechanisms of Immigration Policy Diffusion in the Americas, 1790-2010
Why do laws become similar across countries? Is the adoption of similar laws and policies due to factors operating independently within each country? Do countries develop similar rules in response to similar challenges? Or is the similarity of laws and policies due to the interdependent responses that scholars have referred to as processes of policy convergence, transfer, and diffusion? We draw on an analysis of immigration and nationality laws o…
Temp Nations? A Research Agenda on Migration, Temporariness, and Membership
This article outlines a research agenda to study how, why, and with what consequences systems of migration policy that rely on time-delimited statuses have been tools of nation-state making. Taking a long view and comparing key contemporary cases, I argue that temporary migration regimes have been appealing because they purport to reconcile the disparate interests and preferences of political actors in sending and receiving countries, native and …
The Spectre of Race: How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy
Temporary migration and middle class nation building in Canada
This article explores the relationship between temporary labor migration programs (TLMPs) in the post-war era and middle-class nation-building. The analysis centers on Canada, an exemplary case of balancing the rights of foreign workers and national concerns. By examining two eras of Canadian TLMPs – one Keynesian and the other neoliberal – I foreground how and why temporariness has reemerged as a norm in (im)migration policy. Relative to TLMPs b…
Sojourners, Not Settlers: Temporary Labor Migration Since the Nineteenth Century
Systems of labor mobility across borders in which states assign a fixed duration to workers' sojourn-temporary labor migration schemes (TLMSs)-have enabled employers to recruit workers while claiming to avoid the presumed negative consequences of settlement and integration. While existing explanations of TLMSs focus primarily on structural determinants, this article introduces a cumulative contextual model. It begins with a political-economic ana…
Political science (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Immigration (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Development economics (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (6 works)