Foreign Policy Interpretive Lenses and State Migration Law: Realism, Isolationism and Liberalism Thought, and U.S
24.2 TOTTEN- FOREIGN POLICY INTERPRETIVE LENSES AND STATE MIGRATION LAW.DOCX 5/30/2018 12:54 PM FOREIGN POLICY INTERPRETIVE LENSES AND STATE MIGRATION LAW: REALISM, ISOLATIONISM AND LIBERALISM THOUGHT, AND U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY * Robbie J. Totten, PhD ABSTRACT This interdisciplinary article argues that Foreign Policy (FP) interpretive lenses (IL’s)—heuristics oft used in International Studies disciplines to examine statecraft—are a useful and underappreciated tool for comparative state migration policy and legal analysis. IL’s have value as conceptual tools for scholars in examining state migration law and policy, and as accessible analytical frameworks that can be taught to non- professional audiences to assist them with seeing beyond preconceived bias when examining immigration. This article lays ground in the area by painting with broad brushstrokes how three IL’s—realism, isolationism, and liberalism—can be used as lines of inquiry into shedding new insight into state migration law, including historical U.S. immigration policy cases from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries. * Copyright © 2018 Robbie J. Totten, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor and Chair of the Politics & Global Studies Department in the College of Arts & Sciences at American Jewish University (AJU). The author thanks McKenna Lux and Galina Kaye for research assistance, Nathan Schwartzman and Susan Hatch Morgan of Oxford Editing for help with Bluebook citation formatting, Popy Daty and Stephen Singer of the AJU Ostrow Library for library reference assistance, Penny Nguyen-Totten for help with the chart, and the AJU Roland Fund for generous financial support while completing the article. The author also acknowledges for outstanding editorial assistance the UC Davis Journal of International Law & Policy team, including Benjamin Chen, Renate Fessler, Stefan Cohen, Tim Lee, Kasumi Kanetaka, Ramya Auroprem, Tim Nguyen, Alex Preve, Saydie Grewe, Moyi Liu, Matthew Rowan, Marina Amendola, and Kirin Jessel.
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