But as new threats emerge and evolve—including public-health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic—the question is whether the post-9/11 system is up to the task of meeting these challenges, as this report explores. The U.S. government has made important progress in shoring up weaknesses at the nexus of immigration and national security since September 11, 2001. Simply put, there is nothing natural, inevitable, or immutable about the nation-state, though it is the nation-state that is the entity most invested in border fortification. Three Basic Principles of Catholic Social Teaching on Immigration Although Catholic theology has always promoted human rights rooted in natural law and God's revelation, it was the encyclical Rerum Novarum (On the Condition of Labor) in 1891 that developed a systematic presentation of principles of the rights and responsibilities of people. Citizenship and Immigration: Multiculturalism, Assimilation, and Challenges to the Nation-State. This important new study compares the postwar politics of immigration control and immigrant integration in the United States, Germany, and Great Britain. Immigration enforcement is a federal government power, and while some states and municipalities have opted not to assist federal authorities in immigration … Going beyond nation-state bound-aries, we also look at transnational, postnational, and dual citizenships. The third title of a three-volume set, The Nation State and Immigration addresses key challenges facing the contemporary nation state from a global perspective but with special emphasis on the Middle East and Israel. Throughout, we identify methodological and theoretical challenges in this field, noting the need for a more dynamic and comprehensive un-derstanding of the inter-relationships between the dimensions of citi-zenship and immigration. Going beyond nation-state boundaries, we also look at transnational, postnational, and dual citizenships. January 12, 2016. If it was not already obvious that Ireland has a major problem with mass-immigration, and in dealing with that problem in the context of a housing crisis, Helen McEntee, the Minister for Justice, in the last couple of weeks has thrown in once again the question of citizenship; or more precisely, the question of citizenship in the context of being born on the island of Ireland. It's no secret that immigration is transforming politics in the western world. Against current diagnoses of nation-states diminished by globalization and international human rights regimes and discourses, the author argues that nation-states have proved remarkably resilient, at least in the face of immigration. This important new study compares the postwar politics of immigration control and immigrant integration in the United States, Germany, and Great Britain. Gary Waters/Ikon Images/Corbis. 153 Immigration and the Nation-State is an impressive cross-national comparison that builds on elite interviews and reanalysis of primary materials, but its chief value is in its bold synthesis and critique of a rapidly growing and highly disjointed secondary literature. Against current diagnoses of nation-states diminished by globalization and international human rights regimes and discourses, the author argues that nation-states have proved remarkably resilient, at least in the face of immigration. How immigration is disrupting the nation state. Mapping out the many variations between these cases, Immigration and the Nation-State focuses on the impact of immigration in the two key areas of sovereignty and citizenship. Throughout, we identify methodological and theoretical challenges in this field, noting the need for a more dynamic and comprehensive understanding of the inter-relationships between the dimensions of citizenship and immigration.