Full Description
This innovative Handbook provides essential insights into understanding the complexities of the rapidly developing field of migration and public policy. It assesses how policymakers at the local, regional, national, and supranational level are defining their approaches in relation to the highly politicized nature of worldwide migration and integration.
Editors Maria Schiller and Peter Scholten bring together global experts in public policy, governance, and political science to examine the challenges facing policymakers. They explore the interrelationship between international and national migration policy and politics, the variations in policies when considering different types of migration, and the diverse actors and dynamics in migration policymaking. The Handbook concludes with a reflective section on the field's development and its significance for public policy studies.
This Handbook is a vital reference for scholars and researchers in the fields of public policy and governance, political science, and migration and integration studies. Policymakers and practitioners from NGOs and international organizations will also benefit from this Handbook's theoretical and practical insights.
Contents
Contents
Preface xii
Migration and public policy: an introduction 1
Maria Schiller and Peter Scholten
PART I MIGRATION IN DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL POLICY AND
POLITICS
1 Inter-state cooperation on international migration 11
Andrew Geddes
2 Governing migration in Africa: the level of regional economic
communities 24
Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
3 Migration policy making in Africa: internal and external drivers of policy
coordination 41
Theophilus Kwabena Abutima and Leander Kandilige
4 Migration policies amidst national aspiration and competing coalitions in
the Maghreb region 56
Abdeslam Badre
5 Migration policy in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries: recent
changes in illiberal migration states 74
Anju Mary Paul
6 Three faces of migration policy-making in the EU 92
Sandra Lavenex and Frowin Rausis
7 From integration to securitisation: the Venezuelan migration crisis and the
paradigmatic change of migration policies in South America 105
Taymi Milan, Cristen Dávalos and Cheryl Martens
PART II TYPES OF MIGRATION AND TYPES OF POLICIES
8 The pull factors of high-skilled immigration and the role of policies 126
Julia Reinold and Mathias Czaika
9 Middle-class migration and neoliberalism: immigration and public policy
in Aotearoa/New Zealand 147
Paul Spoonley
10 'Ideological turn', interculturalism and the making of diversity as a public
culture 165
Ricard Zapata-Barrero
11 Religious diversity in South Asia: influences of migration policymaking 180
AKM Ahsan Ullah
PART III ACTORS AND DYNAMICS IN MIGRATION POLICYMAKING
12 Immigration and populist political strategies: Switzerland as a metaphor 198
Gianni D'Amato and Didier Ruedin
13 Meeting the state: the police as actors in the discourse and governance of
migration and integration 216
Sybille Münch
14 The electoral participation of immigrants in a globalised world 233
Derek S. Hutcheson and Pieter Bevelander
15 Immigrant civic engagement and public policy: intragroup, intergroup, and
transnational dimensions 252
Felipe Amin Filomeno
16 'Talking back' or small steps from within: strategies of immigrant-origin
politicians and activists for more substantive political representation in
Dutch politics 268
Ruşen Koç, Floris Vermeulen and Jaco Dagevos
17 Mayors and migration policies 287
Els de Graauw
18 Multi-level governance revisited: entrance of the regional level in
immigrant integration policies 305
Maria Schiller and Elina Jonitz
19 Towards a second-generation research agenda on local integration policies? 320
Andrea Pettrachin and Tiziana Caponio
PART IV CONCLUSION: STATE OF THE ART, TRENDS, AND DIRECTIONS
FOR FUTURE RESEARCH
Conclusion: contingency, contestation and cooperation in migration policy 339
Peter Scholten and Maria Schiller
