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The politics of immigration in Britain and France now constitute interesting examples of the scope, reach, potential, and limits of European integration. There is something new here and the European Union (EU) could be largely ignored in what were essentially domestic debates about immigration and its effects on the two societies. The EU’s reach into these issues could be seen as surprising because immigration issues combine symbolic resonance with high levels of political sensitivity. In the words of Stanley Hoffmann (1966), states may well be loath to expose to the supranational method issues such as immigration and immigrant politics that are closely linked to their identities as states. If they were to play this dangerous game of Russian roulette, as Hoffmann put it, they would do so only if the gun was filled with blanks. European integration would thus be more likely to occur when it sustained and fortified state identities rather than undermining and eroding them.
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Geddes, A., Guiraudon, V. (2007). The Europeanization of Anti-Discrimination in Britain and France. In: Bertossi, C. (eds) European Anti-Discrimination and the Politics of Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230627314_7
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