David Scott Fitzgerald
Biographic Data
| ID | 193380 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Scott Fitzgerald |
| GIVEN NAMES | David Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Fitzgerald |
| SIGNATURE | FITZGERALD D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1461-4324 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 974 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Nikolas Feith Tan, Transnational Asylum: Toward a Principled Framework
Base Closures, Neoliberalism, and the Strange Death of the Peace Dividend
Refugee Fatigue? How Reports of Increased Numbers of Refugees Affect Public Attitudes About Admission and Overseas Relief
Advocates for refugees often publicize increased numbers of refugees, seemingly to generate greater support for pro-refugee policies. In this research note we test whether reading about a greater number of refugees results in more, less, or unchanged feelings of support for pro-refugee policies via a survey experiment from a national sample of more than 3000 U.S. adults. Accounting for uncertainty over whether the public will perceive differentia…
The limits and possibilities of segmented assimilation theory
Sobre Pablo Yankelevich y Pilar González Bernaldo de Quirós (coords.), Políticas de nacionalidad en América Latina: Escalas espaciales y contiendas jurídicas
Controlling Immigration: A Comparative Perspective
Norm-busting: Rightist challenges in US and Australian immigration and refugee policies
Institutionalist scholars argue that international rights norms, judicial autonomy and discourses of immigrant nationhood constrain shifts to harsher immigration policies in liberal democracies, particularly settler societies. The Trump presidency and the Liberal–National Coalition government in Australia during the same period are occasions to test whether those norms functioned as expected in two paradigmatic country cases. Both governments att…
Immigrant California: Understanding the Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Policy
If California were its own country, it would have the world's fifth largest immigrant population. The way these newcomers are integrated into the state will shape California's schools, workforce, businesses, public health, politics, and culture. In Immigrant California , leading experts in U.S. migration provide cutting-edge research on the incorporation of immigrants and their descendants in this bellwether state. California, unique for its dive…
Sexual Violence, Counterinsurgents, and the Legacies of Jean Lartéguy's The Centurions
Jean Lartéguy's 1960 novel The Centurions , which follows a group of French paratroopers through the wars in Indochina and Algeria, is one that has achieved cult status within the US military. In embracing this novel as a valuable how-to guide for counterinsurgents, those who promote The Centurions ignore the sexual violence and misogyny at the heart of the work, reflecting deeper silences over the issue of sexual violence in war. This article ex…
Sobre Catherine Vézina, Diplomacia Migratoria: Una historia transnacional del Programa Bracero, 1947-1952
Remote control of migration: Theorising Territoriality, Shared Coercion, and Deterrence
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies on 17 Oct 2019, available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1680115
Refuge Beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers
"In Refuge beyond Reach, David Scott FitzGerald traces the origin and development of the practices deployed by governments to deter asylum seekers from the 1970s to the present. FitzGerald draws on official government documents, information obtained via WikiLeaks and FOIA requests from the CIA, and interviews with asylum seekers to systematically analyze the policies associated with the remote control of asylum seekers. He shows how the US, Canad…
A Nation of Emigrants: How Mexico Manages Its Migration
What do governments do when much of their population simply gets up and walks away? In Mexico and other migrant-sending countries, mass emigration prompts governments to negotiate a new social contract with their citizens abroad. After decades of failed efforts to control outflow, the Mexican state now emphasizes voluntary ties, dual nationality, and rights over obligations. In this groundbreaking book, David Fitzgerald examines a region of Mexic…
Refuge beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers
The core of the asylum regime is the principle of non-refoulement that prohibits governments from sending refugees back to their persecutors. Governments attempt to evade this legal obligation to which they have explicitly agreed by manipulating territoriality. A remote control strategy of “extraterritorialization” pushes border control functions hundreds or even thousands of kilometers beyond the state’s territory. Simultaneously, states restric…
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…
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 Sociology of Refugee Migration
Theorization in the sociology of migration and the field of refugee studies has been retarded by a path-dependent division that we argue should be broken down by greater mutual engagement. Excavating the construction of the refugee category reveals how unwarranted assumptions shape contemporary disputes about the scale of refugee crises, appropriate policy responses, and suitable research tools. Empirical studies of how violence interacts with ec…
Que se queden allá: El gobierno de México y la repatriación de mexicanos en Estados Unidos (1934-1940)
Fernando Saúl Alanís Enciso, Tijuana,El Colegio de la Frontera Norte/El Colegio de San Luis, 2007
The Remittance Landscape: Spaces of Migration in Rural Mexico and Urban USA. By Sarah Lynn Lopez
The Remittance Landscape is the most interesting book I have read in a long time. Empty houses built by migrants living in the United States sprout across the Mexican landscape. When I moved to the state of Jalisco for my dissertation research, it was hard to find someone willing to rent one to me. As this book points out, the houses are symbolic projects expressing earned wealth and cosmopolitan experience as much as shelters or investments. Eve…
Sobre Erika Pani, Para pertenecer a la gran familia mexicana: Procesos de naturalización en el siglo XIX
Reassuring the reluctant warriors: US civil-military relations and multilateral intervention. By Stefano Recchia
Stefano Recchia has made a fascinating contribution to the literature on the bureaucratic politics of military interventions. Recchia argues that America's senior generals play a vital role in pushing administrations to adopt a multilateral approach towards humanitarian interventions and that, contrary to what we might expect, liberal interventionists are far more sceptical about having international bodies such as the United Nations Security Cou…
Isolate or engage: Adversarial states, US foreign policy and public diplomacy. Edited by Geoffrey Wiseman
During his 2009 inaugural address, President Barack Obama spoke directly to opponents of the US when he declared that the United States ‘will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist’. The subsequent ending of the diplomatic isolation of states such as Myanmar (Burma), Iran and Cuba has led to some conversation, particularly with regard to Cuba, as to whether the leaders of these countries deserve restored diplomatic relations. But,…
The State and the Grassroots: Immigrant Transnational Organizations in Four Continents
Reviews 779 Overall, their book breaks new ground on the topic of transnational policy networks, revealing how power works through these technocratic, expert-driven networks. Fast Policy is a brisk, engaging read, full of ana- lytically rich and empirically driven sub- stance that teaches us much about new experiments of statecraft, their lure and agendas as they travel, and the tensions which arise as they confront the structural inequities that…
The Routledge International Handbook of Migration Studies
The role of visual markers in police victimization among structurally vulnerable persons in Tijuana, Mexico
Transnationalism in Question
This article seeks to critically engage the new literature on immigrant transnationalism. Connectivity between source and destination points is an inherent aspect of migrations, but migration networks generate a multiplicity of "imagined communities," organized along different, often conflicting principles. Consequently, what immigration scholars describe as transnationalism is usually its opposite: highly particularistic attachments antithetical…
The Sociology of Refugee Migration
Theorization in the sociology of migration and the field of refugee studies has been retarded by a path-dependent division that we argue should be broken down by greater mutual engagement. Excavating the construction of the refugee category reveals how unwarranted assumptions shape contemporary disputes about the scale of refugee crises, appropriate policy responses, and suitable research tools. Empirical studies of how violence interacts with ec…
Remote control of migration: Theorising Territoriality, Shared Coercion, and Deterrence
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies on 17 Oct 2019, available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1680115
Towards a Theoretical Ethnography of Migration
A comparativist manifesto for international migration studies
Drawing on thirteen years of fieldwork among Mexican migrants in the United States and Mexico and comparisons of immigration policy throughout the Americas, this paper systematically elaborates the advantages and disadvantages of different kinds of multi-sited studies. A reformed logic of the Millian methods of agreement and difference takes into account the causal connections among the cases. I call for a 'homeland dissimilation' perspective and…
Beyond 'transnationalism: Mexican hometown politics at an American labour union
The controversial notion of "transnationalism" has generated new insights into international migrants' on-going ties with their communities of origin, but its problematic conceptualization and vague usage in empirical studies needlessly inhibit the transnational perspective's utility. Understanding the political and economic incorporation of migrants in both their communities of origin and destination is facilitated by disaggregating the types of…
Inside the Sending State: The Politics of Mexican Emigration Control
The social science of international migration has generally ignored labor emigration control policies. In the critical case of Mexico, however, the central government consistently tried to control the volume, duration, skills, and geographic origin of emigrants from 1900 to the early 1970s. A neopluralist approach to policy development and implementation shows that the failure of emigration control and the current abandonment of serious emigratio…
A Nation of Emigrants: How Mexico Manages Its Migration
What do governments do when much of their population simply gets up and walks away? In Mexico and other migrant-sending countries, mass emigration prompts governments to negotiate a new social contract with their citizens abroad. After decades of failed efforts to control outflow, the Mexican state now emphasizes voluntary ties, dual nationality, and rights over obligations. In this groundbreaking book, David Fitzgerald examines a region of Mexic…
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
Mexican Assimilation: A Temporal and Spatial Reorientation
One of the principal theoretical and policy questions in the sociology of international migration is the extent to which post-1965 immigrants are either assimilating in the United States or remain stuck in an ethnic "underclass." This paper aims to recast conventional approaches to assimilation through a temporal and spatial reorientation, with special attention to the Mexican-origin case. Attending to the effects of the replenishment of the Mexi…
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…
Colonies of the Little Motherland: Membership, Space, and Time in Mexican Migrant Hometown Associations
The hometown associations (HTAs) formed by international migrants sharing a place of origin are considered the quintessential 'transnational' institution linking migrants to family and townspeople who stayed behind. Scholars of transnationalism present HTAs as the expression of a new kind of 'transnational community' or 'transnational social field' that is redefining what it means to belong to a community by including people who are physically ab…
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…
Nationality and migration in modern Mexico
Scholarship on nationalism and the state has examined how immigration and nationality policy create boundaries of inclusion and exclusion. While a handful of countries of immigration have been analysed extensively, explanations of nationality law have not accounted adequately for countries of emigration. This paper's historical analysis of Mexican nationality law and its congressional debate demonstrates that the ways the state has defined nation…
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…
The limits and possibilities of segmented assimilation theory
The State and the Grassroots: Immigrant Transnational Organizations in Four Continents
Reviews 779 Overall, their book breaks new ground on the topic of transnational policy networks, revealing how power works through these technocratic, expert-driven networks. Fast Policy is a brisk, engaging read, full of ana- lytically rich and empirically driven sub- stance that teaches us much about new experiments of statecraft, their lure and agendas as they travel, and the tensions which arise as they confront the structural inequities that…
Crossing Borders, Shifting Boundaries: National and Transnational Identities in Europe and Beyond
The Routledge International Handbook of Migration Studies
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
Norm-busting: Rightist challenges in US and Australian immigration and refugee policies
Institutionalist scholars argue that international rights norms, judicial autonomy and discourses of immigrant nationhood constrain shifts to harsher immigration policies in liberal democracies, particularly settler societies. The Trump presidency and the Liberal–National Coalition government in Australia during the same period are occasions to test whether those norms functioned as expected in two paradigmatic country cases. Both governments att…
Refuge Beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers
"In Refuge beyond Reach, David Scott FitzGerald traces the origin and development of the practices deployed by governments to deter asylum seekers from the 1970s to the present. FitzGerald draws on official government documents, information obtained via WikiLeaks and FOIA requests from the CIA, and interviews with asylum seekers to systematically analyze the policies associated with the remote control of asylum seekers. He shows how the US, Canad…
Refuge beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers
The core of the asylum regime is the principle of non-refoulement that prohibits governments from sending refugees back to their persecutors. Governments attempt to evade this legal obligation to which they have explicitly agreed by manipulating territoriality. A remote control strategy of “extraterritorialization” pushes border control functions hundreds or even thousands of kilometers beyond the state’s territory. Simultaneously, states restric…
Scenarios of Transformation: The Changing Consequences of Old and New Migrations
This book is both monograph and manifesto. If studies of international migration are too often about immigration to a single place at one time, this volume is relentlessly comparative. It bundles m
Transnationalism in Question
This article seeks to critically engage the new literature on immigrant transnationalism. Connectivity between source and destination points is an inherent aspect of migrations, but migration networks generate a multiplicity of "imagined communities," organized along different, often conflicting principles. Consequently, what immigration scholars describe as transnationalism is usually its opposite: highly particularistic attachments antithetical…
Beyond 'transnationalism: Mexican hometown politics at an American labour union
The controversial notion of "transnationalism" has generated new insights into international migrants' on-going ties with their communities of origin, but its problematic conceptualization and vague usage in empirical studies needlessly inhibit the transnational perspective's utility. Understanding the political and economic incorporation of migrants in both their communities of origin and destination is facilitated by disaggregating the types of…
Nationality and migration in modern Mexico
Scholarship on nationalism and the state has examined how immigration and nationality policy create boundaries of inclusion and exclusion. While a handful of countries of immigration have been analysed extensively, explanations of nationality law have not accounted adequately for countries of emigration. This paper's historical analysis of Mexican nationality law and its congressional debate demonstrates that the ways the state has defined nation…
Inside the Sending State: The Politics of Mexican Emigration Control
The social science of international migration has generally ignored labor emigration control policies. In the critical case of Mexico, however, the central government consistently tried to control the volume, duration, skills, and geographic origin of emigrants from 1900 to the early 1970s. A neopluralist approach to policy development and implementation shows that the failure of emigration control and the current abandonment of serious emigratio…
Towards a Theoretical Ethnography of Migration
Mexican Assimilation: A Temporal and Spatial Reorientation
One of the principal theoretical and policy questions in the sociology of international migration is the extent to which post-1965 immigrants are either assimilating in the United States or remain stuck in an ethnic "underclass." This paper aims to recast conventional approaches to assimilation through a temporal and spatial reorientation, with special attention to the Mexican-origin case. Attending to the effects of the replenishment of the Mexi…
Communities Without Borders: Images and Voices from the World of Migration ‐ by David Bacon
Colonies of the Little Motherland: Membership, Space, and Time in Mexican Migrant Hometown Associations
The hometown associations (HTAs) formed by international migrants sharing a place of origin are considered the quintessential 'transnational' institution linking migrants to family and townspeople who stayed behind. Scholars of transnationalism present HTAs as the expression of a new kind of 'transnational community' or 'transnational social field' that is redefining what it means to belong to a community by including people who are physically ab…
Corridors of Migration: The Odyssey of Mexican Laborers, 1600-1933 - by Acuña, Rodolfo F
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…
The Threat of Race: Reflections on Racial Neoliberalism
"The Threat of Race: Reflections on Racial Neoliberalism." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 37(10), pp. 1695–1696
The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens and the Nation
A comparativist manifesto for international migration studies
Drawing on thirteen years of fieldwork among Mexican migrants in the United States and Mexico and comparisons of immigration policy throughout the Americas, this paper systematically elaborates the advantages and disadvantages of different kinds of multi-sited studies. A reformed logic of the Millian methods of agreement and difference takes into account the causal connections among the cases. I call for a 'homeland dissimilation' perspective and…
Learning to Forget: US Army Counterinsurgency Doctrine and Practice from Vietnam to Iraq
Learning to Forget analyzes the evolution of US counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine over the last five decades. Beginning with an extensive section on the lessons of Vietnam, it traces the decline of COIN in the 1970s, then the rebirth of low intensity conflict through the Reagan years, in the conflict in Bosnia, and finally in the campaigns of Iraq and Afghanistan. Ultimately it closes the loop by explaining how, by confronting the lessons of Viet…
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
Sir Robert Thompson, Strategic Patience and Nixon’s War in Vietnam
Counter-insurgency scholars have long been familiar with Sir Robert Thompson’s classic work Defeating Communist Insurgency, which combined analysis of the insurgencies in Malaya and Vietnam with advice for counter-insurgents that emphasised the drawn-out nature of insurgency and the importance of focusing on population security. While historians have called attention to his role with the British Advisory Mission in South Vietnam and his later cri…
Crossing Borders, Shifting Boundaries: National and Transnational Identities in Europe and Beyond
The role of visual markers in police victimization among structurally vulnerable persons in Tijuana, Mexico
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
Sobre Erika Pani, Para pertenecer a la gran familia mexicana: Procesos de naturalización en el siglo XIX
Reassuring the reluctant warriors: US civil-military relations and multilateral intervention. By Stefano Recchia
Stefano Recchia has made a fascinating contribution to the literature on the bureaucratic politics of military interventions. Recchia argues that America's senior generals play a vital role in pushing administrations to adopt a multilateral approach towards humanitarian interventions and that, contrary to what we might expect, liberal interventionists are far more sceptical about having international bodies such as the United Nations Security Cou…
Isolate or engage: Adversarial states, US foreign policy and public diplomacy. Edited by Geoffrey Wiseman
During his 2009 inaugural address, President Barack Obama spoke directly to opponents of the US when he declared that the United States ‘will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist’. The subsequent ending of the diplomatic isolation of states such as Myanmar (Burma), Iran and Cuba has led to some conversation, particularly with regard to Cuba, as to whether the leaders of these countries deserve restored diplomatic relations. But,…
The State and the Grassroots: Immigrant Transnational Organizations in Four Continents
Reviews 779 Overall, their book breaks new ground on the topic of transnational policy networks, revealing how power works through these technocratic, expert-driven networks. Fast Policy is a brisk, engaging read, full of ana- lytically rich and empirically driven sub- stance that teaches us much about new experiments of statecraft, their lure and agendas as they travel, and the tensions which arise as they confront the structural inequities that…
The Routledge International Handbook of Migration Studies
Political science (31 works) · Sociology (25 works) · Law (20 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (18 works) · Law (13 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (13 works) · Politics (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Immigration (12 works) · Political economy (12 works)