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Record Nr.

UNINA9910171005003321

Titolo

Controlling a new migration world / / edited by Virginie Guiraudon and Christian Joppke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2001

ISBN

1-280-06832-9

1-134-52679-2

0-203-16493-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Collana

Routledge/EUI studies in the political economy of welfare ; ; 4

Altri autori (Persone)

GuiraudonVirginie

JoppkeChristian

Disciplina

325

325/.1

Soggetti

Emigration and immigration - Government policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents

Sommario/riassunto

Controlling a New Migration World explores the factors that drive recent migration control policies and, in turn, sheds light on the unintended consequences of policies for the new character of migration. This book asks how we can account for the immigration policies of liberal states.  Is the recent linkage between migration and security a rhetorical invention of elites or a reflection of changing migrant profiles?  Are states' control policies effectively containing or only redirecting unwanted migration flows? This increasingly relevant issue will be of great use to anyone working