Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 A cluster of contradictions: the politics of migration in the European Union -- 2 Rights and controls in the management of migration: the case of Germany -- 3 The ambiguous terrain of rights: Italy's emergent immigration regime -- 4 The shifting contours of rights: Britain's asylum and immigration regime -- 5 Stratified rights and the management of migration: national distinctiveness in Europe -- 6 Gender, race and the embodiment of rights -- 7 Managing contradiction: civic stratification and migrants' rights -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index