Why and How Do Mainstream Parties Advocate More Restrictive Migration Policies? Advocacy Coalitions and Belief System Change in Swiss Migration Policy (1990-2012)

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandre Afonso
Keyword(s):  
Belief System ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
System Change ◽  
Advocacy Coalitions ◽  
Migration Policies

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Business Climate ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Skilled Migration ◽  
Migration Policies ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Structural Drivers ◽  
Political Structures

This volume highlights the challenges of contemporary policymaking and scholarship on high-skilled migration. Both areas often focus rather narrowly on migration policy without considering systematically and rigorously other economic, social, and political drivers of migration. These structural drivers are often equally or sometimes even more important than migration policies per se. To be successful in recruiting on the global skill market, countries have to implement coherent whole-of-government immigration policy packages which are to be embedded in a country’s broader economic, social, and political structures and the broader context of international migration processes and dynamics. Societies and economies that are able to create a welcoming environment for people, attractive professional conditions for workers, and a business climate for employers are likely to succeed in attracting and recruiting skilled workers that are in demand. The chapter concludes with some proposals aimed at improving the efficiency of the global skill market.

High-Skilled Migration and the Limits of Migration Policies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Skeldon
Keyword(s):  
Migration Policy ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Skilled Migration ◽  
High Turnover ◽  
Migration Policies ◽  
And Training

After a consideration of who the skilled are, this chapter pursues four main themes. First, direct policies to attract skilled migrants are secondary to indirect policies designed to establish the industries and services that will lead to the employment of the skilled. Second, direct policies to attract the skilled need to be integrated into wider policies that see the immigration of the less skilled also to be important. Third, attempts to retain the skilled need to be framed in the context of a high turnover of the skilled, a turnover facilitated by the nature of the channels through which they move. Fourth, a consideration of the global production of the skilled through education and training and how that impacts on the flows. These four themes are closely interrelated and provide a basis for a broader interpretation of skilled migration policy.

Rethinking free skilled labour migration policies in CLMV countries: a qualitative systematic review

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanvedes Daovisan ◽  
Pimporn Phukrongpet ◽  
Thanapauge Chamaratana
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Lao Pdr ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Free Flow ◽  
Labour Migration ◽  
Migration Policies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Skilled Labour ◽  
Practical Implications

PurposeThere is an ongoing debate in the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Blueprint 2015 concerning the skilled labour migration policy regimes. This review aims to systematise the free flow of skilled labour migration policies in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV) countries.Design/methodology/approachThis review utilised a qualitative systematic in peer-reviewed journals for the period 2015–2019. The initial search identified 28,874 articles. Of those articles, 10,612 articles were screened, 738 articles were checked, 150 articles were selected and 18 articles met the criteria. Data were analysed using thematic synthesis (e.g. coding, categorisation, synthesis and summarisation).FindingsThe review suggested that free movement from CLMV countries is the cause of the mass exodus of unskilled migration to high-income countries. The review found that the free flow of migration policy in the AEC Blueprint 2015 is associated with illegal, unauthorised and unskilled workers in the host country.Research limitations/implicationsA systematic review is qualitative in nature, in which the relevant existing literature lacks some empirical studies, and the results must be generalisable.Practical implicationsThe current systematic review provides a visual diagram for practical implications to isolate undocumented, illegal, unpermitted and unskilled migrant workers and further reduce the mass exodus of migration from CLMV countries.Originality/valueTo the authors' knowledge, this is the first review to extend the literature to the macro-level determinants of free flow of skilled labour migration policies in CLMV countries. The present review seeks to inform the policy responses of moving freely between sending and receiving countries.

scholarly journals Towards a Common European Space for Asylum

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 2961 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Petracou ◽  
G. Domazakis ◽  
G. Papayiannis ◽  
A. Yannacopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Migration Policy ◽  
Spatial Process ◽  
Migration Policies ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Critical Overview ◽  
And Diffusion ◽  
Migration Systems ◽  
State Regional ◽  
The Eu

In this paper, we provide a critical overview of the current migration policies of the EU as framed by the recent amendments of the EU migration policies since 2015. We highlight that the construction of the migration policy is a constitutive element of the spatial process of reorganization of territorial policies through the combination and diffusion of state, regional and global. We show that the perception of permanent and static migration pressure, and countries’ specialization in migration are the basis for diffusion of asylum and migration policies to a number of different countries imposing similar migration systems and establishing a global governance of migration regime. The paper highlights a geographic and political change in migration and border management, through the patterns of EU Member States cooperation, and in particular their reluctance to establish a common asylum system based on solidarity and the focus on substituting the lack of a common asylum system by bilateral externalization agreements the main objective of which is the management of migration and border control rather than guaranteeing asylum and refugee policies.

scholarly journals Migration Policies, Participation and the Political Construction of Migration in Spain

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Laura Oso ◽  
Ana López-Sala ◽  
Jacobo Muñoz-Comet
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Political Party ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Political ◽  
Migration Policies ◽  
The Impact

This article offers a state of the art of research on migration policies, participation and the political construction of immigration in Spain. It starts with an overview of migration policy, addressing the impact of the 2008 economic crisis on the configuration of the political agenda. Secondly, it addresses the political participation of immigrants in Spain and their role as “new” voters. Finally, the appearance of the extreme right political party VOX has shifted the classic debates on the attitudes of the population towards immigration and built a new anti-immigration discourse. The article argues that academic interest and scientific production have been modulated in line with the various phases of Spain’s configuration as a country of immigration. The text ends with some reflections on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis, which has opened up a period of major challenge and uncertainty.

scholarly journals Transformation of the Migration Policy of States During the Pandemic Period

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 34-44
Author(s):  
Vladimir Zorin ◽  
◽  
Vladimir Voloh ◽  
Vera Suvorova ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Migration Policies ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Further Development

Introduction. The article is devoted to the transformation of migration policies during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. The article discusses changes in migration processes in connection with the COVID-19. The aim of the article is to illustrate how the countries’ migration policy has changed due to the pandemic and what measures have been developed to support migrants. Methods and materials. The research methodology includes general scientific research methods, such as analysis, synthesis, content analysis and the aristotelian method. As well as specific scientific methods, such as comparative legal and system analysis. The empirical basis of the study is the data of the General Administration for Migration Issues of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russian Federation, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and the United Nations (UN). Analysis. The authors conducted a comparative analysis of migration policies of various countries during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Considerable attention is paid to the measures taken by countries to provide various types of support to migrants. The authors also analyzed the activities of international organizations and the civil society. The authors concluded that measures to restrain the pandemic affected the implementation of funded integration projects in the European countries, some activities were postponed, however, the European countries made certain efforts to adopt new integration practices to support migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic. Discussion. The authors assessed the further development of migration processes and countries migration policies. Results. The authors effectuated a conclusion that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the transformation of migration processes and migration policies. The authors focused on how events in the migration sphere would develop, and what changes would take place in the migration policy of the Russian Federation. The research results presented in the article can be used to improve the migration policy of the Russian Federation in relation to labour migrants and to develop regulatory migration measures.

scholarly journals The Regional Migration-Development Nexus in Australia: What Migration? Whose Development?

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Boese ◽  
Anthony Moran
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Migrant Labor ◽  
Regional Migration ◽  
Migration Policies ◽  
Seasonal Workers ◽  
Human Costs ◽  
Multi Stakeholder ◽  
Regional Australia

Both regional resettlement of refugees, and the attraction of different kinds of migrant labor to regional areas, have been significant trends in Australia’s recent migration policies. Using the concept of the migration-development nexus, we address important questions about the nature and scope of development these different policies aim to promote, and achieve. We examine the intersection of policies and initiatives implemented to encourage and support refugee settlement and regional migration in Australia with the perspectives of regionally settled migrants and refugees on their regional migration outcomes. We argue that recent government policies, and multi-stakeholder initiatives aimed at regional migration and/or settlement, cast migrants as differential contributors to regional development, useful either in terms of their skills (skilled migrants) or their labor (backpackers, seasonal workers, refugees). The co-presence of different groups of migrants in regional locations is also shaped by the fluctuating employer demands for mobile labor in combination with visa regulations. We draw on data from three projects on regional settlement, multiculturalism and mobilities to analyze three important elements of regional migration that are central to a critical analysis of the nexus between rural migration and development in regional Australia: the complex roles of employers; the embedding of regional migration in migrants’ life courses; and the tension between long-term migration outcomes and quick fixes. By focusing on development as it is experienced by migrants themselves and interpreted by different stakeholders in regional migration, we draw attention to the limitations of a purely instrumental view of migrants as agents of regional development. We argue that the sustainability of regional migration policies will depend on recognizing the important role of migrants’ hopes, needs and aspirations as well as their rights, and the unintended human costs and consequences of exclusively economically driven migration policy design.

scholarly journals A Worthy Reception? Ambivalences in Social Work With Refugees and Migrants in Sweden

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 983-1004
Author(s):  
Kristina Gustafsson ◽  
Jesper Johansson
Keyword(s):  
Reference Group ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Reference Groups ◽  
Migration Policies ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Existential Needs ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Ethnographic Methodology ◽  
To Receive

The purpose of this article is to analyze how reception practices and the meaning of a “worthy” reception of refugees and migrants are negotiated in encounters between various receiving actors in times of shifting Swedish migration policies. The analysis is grounded in ethnographic methodology and draws on data collected in 2016. The aim of the study was to document experiences of the so-called “refugee crisis” in Europe and Scandinavia from a bottom-up perspective among professionals and volunteers narrated during reference group meetings. The reference groups consisted of representatives from state and municipal agencies, the private sector, and civil society organizations. The actors represented in the mixed reference groups were diverse, but all were involved in reception activities. In the analysis we have combined political philosophy about willingness versus ability to receive refugees and migrants with postcolonial theoretical perspectives on concurrent claims and voices. We identified three themes that are central in the negotiation of the practice and meaning of a “worthy reception”: first, the overlooked existential needs of refugees and migrants; second, the lack of gender- and diversity-sensitive reception practices; and third, ambivalences in relation to various refugees groups in times of shifting migration policies. We recommend that in order to promote a worthy reception of refugees and migrants, existential needs must be taken care of and gender- and diversity-sensitive practices must be developed. Another recommendation is to recognize how migration policy limits a society’s ability to receive refugees and migrants, but also affects the willingness among those actors who receive.

Immigration and European Integration: Towards Fortress Europe? By Andrew Geddes. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. 196p. $69.95 cloth, $24.95 paper.

2001 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 254-255
Author(s):  
Jeannette Money
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Policy Outcome ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Member States ◽  
Migration Policies ◽  
Fortress Europe ◽  
European Migration

Andrew Geddes provides a European analysis of European migration policy. He asks two questions: To what degree has the European Union (EU) garnered control over migration policies of member states? What is the policy outcome? In answering these questions, the author makes two contribu- tions to the literature.

Information, Beliefs, and Ways of Knowing in the Post-Truth Era

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tami Oliphant
Keyword(s):  
Belief System ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
System Change ◽  
Preventable Death ◽  
White Supremacist ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
Conceptual Paper

In 2016, Oxford Dictionaries claimed “post-truth” as word of the year. Post-truth is the supremacy of belief, emotion, and worldviews over information and facts. While post-truth is nothing new, it invites reconsideration of information, disinformation, misinformation, and knowledge from an understudied perspective: the internal conditions and different ways of knowing that shape and influence information interactions. This conceptual paper explores the relationships among beliefs, emotion, and faith, internal conditions, information, and different ways of knowing by drawing upon two recent events: the preventable death of a toddler and the fundamental belief system change of a white supremacist.

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