European Migration Policies in Flux: Changing Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion

ISBN-13: 9781405102964 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 168 str.

Christina Boswell

Opis

European migration policies are undergoing significant changes. After three decades of highly restrictive approaches, demographic changes and gaps in labour supply are prompting many European governments to liberalize their migration policies.

• Timely book examining the nature and impact of the changing migration policies in France, Germany and the UK.
  
• Analyses the content of new legislation, as well as the policy debate and party political treatment of migration issues in each country.
  
• Considers the implications of the new policies on other categories of migrants: asylum seekers, refugees and resident ethnic minorities.

Recenzje

"Christina Boswell′s short overview of recent Western European migration policies is sober, crisp, businesslike, and useful"

"This is indeed an important and useful book...Boswell helps us to get a good grip on the issues involved."
Australian Journal of Political Science

"This outstanding book cuts in a lucid and accessible way to the core of the key migration policy dilemmas facing Europe. It will be an indispensable guide for anyone with an interest in these important questions." Andrew Geddes, Jean Monnet Reader in EU Government and Politics, University of Liverpool

"Provides an important insight into one of the highly contested policy fields in Europe, focusing on what lessons can be learned and what pitfalls policy–makers need to avoid. It should be on the desk of every immigration or interior ministry official in Europe who is struggling with the national and European debate." Elspeth Guild, Professor of European Immigration Law, University of Nijmegen, Partner, Kingsley Napley

"Makes an invaluable contribution to one of the most high–profile issues in Europe today."
Simon Green, University of Birmingham

Overall this is a book that provides a good comparative analysis of three countries in the EU. It brings together a wealth of material and will be an invaluable reference for students of migration.
Journal of Population Research

Spis treści

Introduction.

1. The Evolution of Postwar European Migration Policies.

2. New Policies on Labour Migration.

3. Asylum–seekers and Illegal Immigrants.

4. Labour Migration, Integration and Diversity.

5. The International Context.

6. Conclusion.

O autorze

Dr. Christina Boswell is an Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA), and Senior Researcher at the Migration Research Group, Hamburg Insitute for International Economics. She previously worked as a policy research consultant for the UN Refugee Agency. Her research focuses on European migration and refugee policy.

Blurb

European migration policies are undergoing significant changes. After three decades of highly restrictive approaches, demographic changes and gaps in labour supply are prompting many European governments to liberalize their migration policies. Yet the shift to more liberal regimes comes at a time of increased hostility to asylum seekers and support for parties of the far right in several countries, as well as uncertainty about the effectiveness of integration and race relations strategies. This timely book examines the nature and impact of these changing migration policies in Germany, Italy and the UK. It analyses the content of new legislation and proposals, as well as the policy debate and party political treatment of migration issues in each country. The book considers the implications of these new policies for other categories of migrants: asylum seekers, refugees and resident ethnic minorities.