The political economy of managed migration : nonstate actors, Europeanization, and the politics of designing migration policies / Georg Menz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Menz, Georg, 1973-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign workers--Government policy--Europe.

Foreign workers.

Asylum, Right of--Economic aspects--Europe.

Asylum, Right of.

Comparative industrial relations.

Foreign workers--Government policy.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Summary:

European governments have re-discovered labour migration, but are eager to be perceived as controlling unsolicited forms of migration, especially through asylum and family reunion. The emerging paradigm of managed migration combines the construction of more permissive channels for desirable and actively recruited labour migrants with ever more restrictive approaches towards asylum seekers. Nonstate actors, especially employer organizations, trade unions, and humanitarian non-governmental organisations, attempt to shape regulatory measures, but their success varies depending on organizational characteristics. Labour market interest associations' lobbying strategies regarding quantities and skill profile of labour migrants will be influenced by the respective system of political economy they are embedded in. Trade unions are generally supportive of well-managed labour recruitment-strategies. But migration policy-making also proceeds at the European Union (EU) level. While national actors seek to upload their national model as a blueprint for future EU policy to avoid costly adaptation, top-down Europeanization is re-casting national regulation in important ways, notwithstanding highly divergent national regulatory philosophies. Based on field work in and analysis of primary documents from six European countries (France, Italy, United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, and Poland) this book makes an important contribution to the study of a rapidly Europeanized policy domain. Combining insights from the literature on comparative political economy, Europeanization, and migration studies, the book makes important contributions to all three, while demonstrating how migration policy can be fruitfully studied by employing tools from mainstream political science, rather than treating it as a distinct subfield.

Contents:

1 Managing Migration: Political Economies, Nonstate Actors, and Multiple Arenas 1

2 Legacies of the Past and Currents of Change: Conundrums over Migration and Asylum 23

3 National Actors and European Solutions: The Contours of Conflict 76

4 Political Battles at Home and in Brussels: Labor Migration and Asylum Policy in Established Countries of Immigration: France, the United Kingdom, and Germany 125

5 Contested Areas of Sovereignty: Labor Migration and Asylum Policy in New Countries of Immigration: Ireland, Italy, and Poland 198

6 Managed Migration, Populism, and Pragmatism 257.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-298) and index.

ISBN:

9780199533886

0199533881

OCLC:

245559070