Re-Thinking the Political Economy of Immigration Control: A Comparative Analysis

ISBN-13: 9781032088532 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 244 str.

Lea Sitkin

Opis

This book offers a systematic exploration of the ways in which state policy contributes to the marginalisation and criminalisation of immigrant communities in Western societies, and examines the ways in which immigrants are treated differently in different national contexts.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Developing the New Political Economy of Immigration Policy: Common Themes, Common Challenges; 2. The Illegalisation Dynamic; 3. Fashioning Exploitable Migrant Workers: How Host-Country Policies Make Regular Immigrants Vulnerable to Exploitation; 4. What’s New in Immigration Policy?; 5. The Trilemma: Low-Wage Jobs, Unemployment or the Underground Economy; 6. Immigrant Domestic Workers Across the Varieties of Capitalism; 7. The Impacts of Immigration on the German Construction Industry; 8. From Post-Fordist to Post-Human Economies: A Look to the Future

O autorze

Lea Sitkin completed her DPhil in Criminology at the University of Oxford in 2014. She is currently a Senior Lecturer and Deputy Course Leader for the BA Criminology programme at the University of Westminster in London. She is also an affiliate of the Border Criminologies Network and the European working group on Organised Crime (EUROC).