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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811767303321

Autore

Paul Regine

Titolo

The political economy of border drawing : arranging legality in European labor migration policies / / Regine Paul

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : berghahn, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78920-083-0

1-78238-542-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (244 p.)

Disciplina

331.5/44094

Soggetti

Foreign workers - Government policy - Europe

Labor policy - Europe

Europe Emigration and immigration Government policy

Europe Emigration and immigration Economic aspects

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

""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction � Labor Migration Management: An Interdisciplinary Interpretive Policy Analysis""; ""Part I � Border Drawing as a Framework for Migration Policy Analysis""; ""Chapter 1 � Labor Migration Management as Meaningful Border Drawing""; ""Chapter 2 � Border Drawing across Capitalist Economies, Welfare States, and Citizenship Regimes""; ""Chapter 3 � Border Drawing in Context: Profiling Migration Histories and Policy Legacies for Comparative Analysis""

""Part II � Border Drawing in German, French, and British Labor Migration Policies""""Chapter 4 � What Makes Migrant Workers ""Legal""? Mapping Entry Regulation""; ""Chapter 5 � A ""Tool for Growth""? The Shared Cultural Political Economy of Labor Migration Policies""; ""Chapter 6 � ""Poles Don't Even Play Cricket!"" Embedding Labor Migration Policies in National Socio-Cultural Norms""; ""Conclusion � Border Drawing, Policy Analysis, and the Governance of Mobility in Europe""; ""Documents and Interviews""; ""References""; ""Index""



Sommario/riassunto

The conditions for non-EU migrant workers to gain legal entry to Britain, France, and Germany are at the same time similar and quite different. To explain this variation this book compares the fine-grained legal categories for migrant workers in each country, and examines the interaction of economic, social, and cultural rationales in determining migrant legality. Rather than investigating the failure of borders to keep unauthorized migrants out, the author highlights the different policies of each country as ""border-drawing"" actions. Policymakers draw lines between different migrant groups