Managing Migration in the Twenty-first Century

Martin, Philip; Abella, Manolo; Kuptsch, Christiane

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“…Global economic integration also lowers the cost of migration by creating new linkages between migrant-sending and migrant-receiving states (Sassen 1996), including international people-smuggling networks and legal labor brokerage services (Kyle & Koslowski 2001, Tsuda 2003. Thus, counterintuitively, economic development increases migratory pressure, at least in the short term (Stalker 1994, Martin 2001, Cornelius 2002a). …”

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Immigration and Politics

Cornelius

Rosenblum

2005

Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci.

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▪ Abstract With nearly one in ten residents of advanced industrialized states now an immigrant, international migration has become a fundamental driver of social, economic, and political change. We review alternative models of migratory behavior (which emphasize structural factors largely beyond states' control) as well as models of immigration policy making that seek to explain the gaps between stated policy and actual outcomes. Some scholars attempt to explain the limited efficacy of control policies by focusing on domestic interest groups, political institutions, and the interaction among them; others approach the issue from an international or “intermestic” perspective. Despite the modest effects of control measures on unauthorized flows of economic migrants and asylum seekers, governments continue to determine the proportion of migrants who enjoy legal status, the specific membership rights associated with different legal (and undocumented) migrant classes, and how policies are implemented. These choices have important implications for how the costs and benefits of migration are distributed among different groups of migrants, native-born workers, employers, consumers, and taxpayers.

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Immigration and Politics

Cornelius

Rosenblum

2005

Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci.

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106

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“…Nonetheless, a policy gap can be observed either in restricting an already active inflow, or in the process of promoting a new type of immigration as happened in Germany (Joppke 2004). Whereas the German government launched a green card programme with 20,000 available permits to incentivize the settlement of HSI in the country in August 2000, only 12,000 had been requested by April 2002 (Martin 2004). This policy proved incapable of jump-starting the desired inflow, notwithstanding the German's government official objectives (Joppke 2004).…”

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British and French policies towards high-skilled immigration during the 2000s: policy outplays politics or politics trumps policy?

Carvalho¹

2013

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Within the context of global competition for human talent, two policy shifts in favour of the promotion of high-skilled immigration (HSI) were observed in the UK and France during the 2000s. In light of similar policy inputs, this article compares the development and implementation of the British Highly Skilled Immigration Programme between 2002 and 2008 and the French Carte de Competences et Talents (Card of Competences and Talents) from 2006 to 2009. This research explores whether there was an overall convergence across these two European countries' policies towards HSI and if they have conformed to a similar client politics model. Whereas this politics model was identified in the UK, a policy gap was observed in France. This article relates the identified divergences with the political agency of the British and French policymakers, while the conclusions argue that politics trumped policy in the two selected cases.

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“…In Europe, a lack of regular (non-temporary) immigration shifts the meaning of 'refugee' in another direction. Thus in Germany a 'true' refugee would surely be a returning German rather than an 'immigrant' or even 'asylum-seeker' (Martin 2004;Peck 1995). In Palestine, as well, a 'true' refugee would surely be returning, not immigrating to a new country, even if that 'return' is to a place in which the refugee*and perhaps even his or her parents*has never lived (Peteet 1995).…”

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Perfectly American: Constructing the Refugee Experience

Haines

Rosenblum

2009

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Over the last 60 years, the United States has accepted some two million refugees for resettlement. Standard opinion polls suggest that the American response to these refugees has been mixed. Yet, despite much ambivalence about particular refugees and where they may belong in the grid of American social and cultural categories, the notion of refuge and the imperative toward support and welcome to refugees endure. As an extended example, this paper considers press treatment of refugees in Richmond, Virginia during the last quarter of the twentieth century*before security concerns and surging numbers of illegal immigrants irrevocably changed the nature of American immigration. Unlike the ambivalent response that emerges in national opinion polls and some other venues, in this case the construction of refugees is neither negative nor ambivalent, but is instead solidly positive. This positive construction extends across a broad range of racial and national-origin groups and is conditioned by a peculiarly American notion of how refugees relate to broader American categories, particularly that of 'immigrant'. In this local story from the United States lies a broader tale of how refugees are woven into the existing social and cultural categories of the countries in which they resettle.Since the mid-twentieth century, American involvement in refugee resettlement has developed from an ad hoc, largely voluntary-agency-managed programme to a very formal, regulated one with the strong involvement of federal and state governments. Over that same period, the numbers and origins of refugees have shifted greatly. Although the majority of refugees who have been admitted reflect specific American interests, particularly opposition to communist regimes, national origins and cultural backgrounds have nevertheless been diverse*sometimes representing resumption of prior migration flows (as with Cubans and many Eastern Europeans), yet sometimes

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Managing Migration in the Twenty-first Century

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British and French policies towards high-skilled immigration during the 2000s: policy outplays politics or politics trumps policy?

Perfectly American: Constructing the Refugee Experience

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