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

ISBN-13: 9781138121577 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 226 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. It does so across a uniquely wide range of policy areas: immigration admissions, citizenship, internal immigration controls, labour market regulation, the welfare state and the criminal justice system. Challenging the current state of theoretical literature on the 'criminalisation' or 'marginalisation' of immigrants, this book examines the ways in which immigrants are treated differently in different national contexts. This book offers a framework for understanding the institutional factors driving variation in the extent of immigrants' marginalisation and criminalisation across the Western World. It describes overall trends with detailed case studies on the USA, the UK, Germany, Netherlands and Italy. The book will appeal to scholars and students of criminology, social policy, political economy, political sociology, the sociology of immigration and race, and migration studies.

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