Pierre Monforte is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leicester. He received his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence (Italy) and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Université de Montréal. His research explores the dynamics of protest for migrants' rights in France, Germany, Canada and the UK.

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Introduction: The europeanization of social movements and immigration and asylum policies

Chapter 1. The evolution of the French and German pro-asylum movements since the beginning of the 1990s
Chapter 2. The components of the French and German pro-asylum movements in comparative perspective
Chapter 3. The europeanization of the pro-asylum movements: evidences from the networks, frames, and collective actions
Chapter 4. The different modes of europeanization of the pro-asylum movements
Chapter 5. The europeanization of social movements: a process of inclusion into, and exclusion from, a particular field

Conclusion:

• The europeanization of social movements and the emergence of a European public sphere
• Pro-asylum movements and the European Union: three conclusions

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