five Contemporary immigration policy making Overview This chapter examines some key features of immigration policy making that will be explored in greater depth in subsequent chapters dealing with Britain. It explores three main issues: first, the specific characteristics of immigration policy making and the complex and conflicting interests involved, which mean that immigration policy may produce unintended results; second, it looks at the impact of migration on different national models of citizenship and the extent to which
eight Living with immigration policy Overview This chapter explores immigration policy from the point of view of the people who are subject to immigration controls. It is based on the experiences of migrants as told to researchers and campaigners for migrant rights. The stories illustrate different aspects of living with migration policy and are mostly based on Britain. These include the risks people take to travel to Britain, the insecurity experienced while waiting for a decision on an immigration or asylum status and the implications of
153 Evaluating immigration policy making SIXTEEN evaluating immigration policy making Labour’s transformation of immigration policy has been intense and innovative. The final part of this book provides a template to evaluate the government’s reforms. Part Three is divided into six chapters, the first of which discusses what the aims of policy are, how progress towards them can be measured, and the pros and cons of such an approach. The remaining chapters echo the policy themes used throughout this book. Chapter 18 focuses on asylum and unauthorised
37 3 Emotion, Colonialism and Immigration Policy Introduction This chapter reviews key discourses present in the colonial and immigration histories of Australia, the UK and the US, the states from which case studies are drawn from in this book. Later chapters examine how debates in contemporary immigration and asylum policy cases discussed in this book have engaged with the histories and discourses that emerged during these periods. Immigration policy has been a central pillar of nation building and debates on identity in each of the states (Vickers and
227 THIRTEEN A categorical immigration policy: welfare, integration and the production of inequality1 John Gal and Jennifer Oser Introduction Welfare states have faced difficulties in integrating immigrants and in dealing successfully with issues of poverty and deprivation among members of this social group. In fact, this is the case even in those European welfare states that have the most generous welfare regimes. An alternative to the immigrant policies adopted in most welfare states is the categorical immigration policy that characterises the Israeli
423 Policy & Politics vol 37 no 3 • 423-38 (2009) • 10.1332/030557309X435853 © The Policy Press, 2009 • ISSN 0305 5736 Key words: policy transfer • globalisation • immigration • Spain • Catalonia Final submission October 2008 • Acceptance December 2008 False and frustrated policy transfer: Spanish immigration policy and Catalonia Andrew Davis This article questions the claim that policy transfer is ‘on the rise’, preferring instead to treat the assertion as a hypothesis to be investigated. Using the literature’s own predictive categories, it investigates
THIRTEEN Gendered immigrations, policies and rights in the UK Eleonore Kofman In the past decade, immigration and net migration into the UK have increased substantially. At the same time it has become more diversified, not only in terms of countries of origin but also the different forms of entry, statuses and rights conferred by the state. There are also large variations in the proportion of female nationals among the many nationalities present in the UK, with an average of 48.6% in 2006 (Salt, 2006), rising to over 60% for the Philippines and a number
nine The future of immigration policy: immigration controls, immigration and citizenship Overview This chapter draws together some of the key ideas in the book and then explores the basis of different views on migration policy. It focuses particularly on the arguments for the abolition of immigration controls, and examines these from the point of view of their ethical, economic and social implications. The chapter discusses the tensions between universal values, which make exclusion on grounds of place of birth unjustifiable, and the need to define
William H. Kaempfer Academic Affairs, Campus Box 40, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309-0040 - USA Anton D. Lowenberg* Department of Economics, California State University, Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff Street, North- ridge, CA 91330-8374 - USA William Mertens Department of Economics, Campus Box 256, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309- 0256- USA The Political Economy of Immigration Policy: Some Simple Interest Group Analytics Abstract - Immigra t ion policy is viewed as endogenously determined by interest group competition. T
Introduction This article highlights the central role that states have in creating the conditions under which labour exploitation, including forced labour, human trafficking and other offences classed as ‘modern slavery’, are able to occur. Specifically, this article identifies a number of immigration policy decisions related to the UK’s exit (‘Brexit’) from the European Union (EU) that will likely result in a sharp increase in the number of irregular migrants in the United Kingdom (UK) and how this increase, when combined with measures that have
