Ina Lodewyckx

Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS), University of Antwerp

From Nation State to Migration State

Christiane Timmerman

Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS), University of Antwerp

Johan Wets

Higher Institute for Labour Studies (HIVA), Catholique University of Louvain

ABSTRACT. International migration and its consequences – the integration of newcomers to a society – has, in just a few years’ time, developed from a purely demographic phenomenon into an issue that has altered the ‘being’ of the Western Nation-state in all its facets. The topic largely dominates the political debate in Flanders, Belgium and at the level of the European Union.

Received: June, 2010

1st Revision: September, 2010

Accepted: October, 2010

JEL Classification: F22, P1

Keywords: international migration, ‘multicultural society’,  Western Nation-state.