Full Description
Building upon the concept of migration regime, this open access book brings together the works of scholars who have investigated logics and routines of action in the field of immigration control within a single and innovative theoretical framework. The chapters cover a wide range of policy domains, from visa policy to the externalisation of controls, labour migration to asylum, internal controls towards irregular migration to restrictions for intra-EU mobility. By unravelling organisational strategies and practices across Europe, the book does not only contribute to dismantling the very idea of the European North-South divide in migration but also shows how Europe really works in the field of migration in times of deep economic, asylum and health crises. In this perspective, the book questions the widespread understanding of migration control outcomes as simply the result of more or less effective state policies without considering the embeddedness of the national policy goals and strategies in the dynamic interplay of different economies, institutional cultures and geopolitical positions.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction. Understanding Migration Controls in Europe.- Chapter 2. External Controls: Policing Entries, Enforcing Exits.- Chapter 3. Practices of External Control: Is there a North-South Divide?.- Chapter 4. A "European" Externalisation Strategy? A Transnational Perspective on Aid, Border Regimes, and the EU Trust Fund for Africa in Morocco.- Chapter 5. The Genealogy of the External Dimension of the Spanish Immigration Regime: When a Bricolage National Policy Becomes a Driver of Europeanisation.- Chapter 6. Challenges and Ambiguities of the Policies for Immigrants' Regularisation: The Portuguese Case in Context.- Chapter 7. Knowledge Production through Regularisation and Ex-Post Regulation Strategies: Italy and Germany Compared.- Chapter 8. Differently Similar. The Quest for Migration Control in The Netherlands and Spain.- Chapter 9. "Selecting by Origin" Revisited: On the Particularistic Turn of German Labour Migration Policy.- Chapter 10. The Admission of Foreign Workers to Italy: Closing the "Gap" with Northern Europe.- Chapter 11. Seasonal Workers in Agriculture: The Cases of Spain and The Netherlands in Times of Covid-19.- Chapter 12. Migration Policy and Welfare Chauvinism in the United Kingdom: European Divergence or Trend-Setting?.- Chapter 13. Turning the Welfare-Migration Nexus Upside-Down: The Case of European Retirees in Spain.- Chapter 14. Welcome Culture and Bureaucratic Ambiguity: Germany's Complex Asylum Regime.- Chapter 15. Looking into Policy Change: How the Italian Asylum Regime Came of Age.- Chapter 16. The Greek Asylum Regime: From Latecomer on Reception to Inspirational Model on Asylum Procedures.- Chapter 17. Concluding Remarks: Towards a New Conceptualisation of Similarities and Differences in European Migration Controls.
