MERCI MOBILISATION OVER ETHNIC RELATIONS, CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION The Mobilisation over Ethnic Relations, Citizenship and Immigration (MERCI) project was a collaboration between the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB), the University of Leeds, the University of Geneva and the University of Amsterdam. It was initially established in 1994 and has received substantial funding from the British ESRC (Racist Sentiments project) and Swiss national funding bodies as well as from the WZB and the University of Amsterdam. MERCI is a theoretically informed empirical project that compares the contentious politics of migration and ethnic relations in five European countries (Germany, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland) using an original seven-year (1992-1998) dataset. The empirical research for this project has now been completed, and the MERCI project has received considerable recognition in the field, backed up by several publications in leading international journals (see below). A final book, Contested Citizenship, is being published in 2005 as a definitive statement from the five-country collaborative research. The book cover can be viewed in pdf format here: Contested_Citizenship.pdf. To order Contested Citizenship from the University of Minnesota Press, please follow this link: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/K/koopmans_contested.html. For further information contact Paul Statham http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/eurpolcom/paul_statham.cfm at EurPolCom. Selected MERCI Publications Books: Ruud Koopmans, Paul Statham, Marco Giugni and Florence Passy, forthcoming 2005. Contested Citizenship: Immigration and Ethnic Relations Politics in Europe. Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press. Ruud Koopmans and Paul Statham (eds.), 2000. Challenging Immigration and Ethnic Relations Politics: Comparative European Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pages 433. Refereed Contributions to Journals: Ruud Koopmans and Paul Statham, 2001. 'Citoyennete nationale et transnationalisme. Une analyse comparative des revendications des migrants en Allemagne, en Grande Bretagne, et aux Pays-Bas.' Revue Europeene des Migrations Internationales vol.17, no.2, pp.63-100. Ruud Koopmans and Paul Statham, 2001. 'How national citizenship shapes transnationalism: A comparative analysis of migrant claims-making in Germany, Great Britain and the Netherlands' Transnational Communities Working Paper Series, WPTC-01-10. Oxford: ESRC/University of Oxford, pp.1-42 (also available at http://www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk/). ps2001ox.pdf Ruud Koopmans and Paul Statham, 1999. 'Challenging the Liberal Nation-State? Postnationalism, Multiculturalism, and the Collective Claims Making of Migrants and Ethnic Minorities in Britain and Germany' American Journal of Sociology, vol.105, no.3, pp.652-696. ps1999ajs.pdf Paul Statham, 1999. 'Political Mobilisation by Minorities in Britain: a negative feedback of 'race relations'?' Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol.25, no.4, pp.597-626. ps1999jems.pdf Ruud Koopmans and Paul Statham, 1999. 'Political Claims Analysis: integrating protest event and political discourse approaches.' Mobilization: The International Journal of Research and Theory about Social Movements, Protest and Collective Behavior, vol.4, no.2, pp.203-221. ps1999mo.pdf Parts of Books: Paul Statham, 2001. 'Political Opportunities for Altruism? The role of state policies in influencing British anti-racist and pro-migrant movements', in Marco Giugni and Florence Passy (eds.) Political Altruism? Solidarity Movements in International Perspective. New York/Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield Press, pp.133-158. Ruud Koopmans and Paul Statham, 2000. 'Migration, Ethnic Relations, and Xenophobia as a Field of Political Contention: An Opportunity Structure Approach', in Ruud Koopmans and Paul Statham (eds.) Challenging Immigration and Ethnic Relations Politics: Comparative European Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.13-56. ps2000bk.pdf Ruud Koopmans and Paul Statham, 2000. 'Political Claims-making Against Racism and Discrimination in Britain and Germany', in Jessika ter Wal and Maykel Verkuyten (eds.) Comparative Perspectives on Racism. Aldershot, Burlington (USA), Singapore, Sydney: Ashgate, pp.139-170. Ruud Koopmans and Paul Statham, 1999. 'Ethnic and Civic Conceptions of Nationhood and the Differential Success of the Extreme Right in Germany and Italy', in Marco Giugni, Doug McAdam and Charles Tilly (eds.) How Social Movements Matter. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp.225-251.