Re-thinking the Political Economy of Immigration Control
Lea Sitkin, "Re-thinking the Political Economy of Immigration Control "
English | ISBN: 1032088532 | 2021 | 244 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1032088532 | 2021 | 244 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This book offers a systematic exploration of the changing politics around immigration and the impact of resultant policy regimes on immigrant communities. 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, as well as the institutional factors driving this variation. To this end, it offers data on overall trends across 20 high-income countries, as well as more detailed case studies on the UK, Australia, the USA, Germany, Italy and Sweden. At the same time, it charts an emerging common regime of exploitation, which threatens the depiction of some countries as more inclusionary than others.
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