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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812418203321

Autore

Balch Alex

Titolo

Managing labour migration in Europe [[electronic resource] ] : ideas, knowledge and policy change / / Alex Balch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, U.K. ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press

New York, : Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

ISBN

1-84779-758-X

1-78170-180-6

1-84779-266-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Disciplina

331.62094

Soggetti

Foreign workers - Europe

Foreign workers - Government policy - Europe

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 (p. [205]-226) and index.

Nota di contenuto

9780719080722; 9780719080722; Copyright; Contents; List of tables and fi gures; Preface and acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Labour migration policy theory -the state of the art; 3 Developing the approach: theory and methods; 4 Case study one: labour migration policy change in Spain; 5 Case study two: labour migration policy change in the UK; 6 The EU and labour migration policy-making in the UK and Spain; 7 Managing migration in the UK and Spain: ideas, knowledge and policy change; 8 Conclusions; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Labour migration has become one of the hot topics in Europe, especially since 2000 with the shift from restriction to managed migration. This book provides an authoritative account of policy change over labour migration in Europe during this new era of governance.