Building upon the concept of migration regime, this open access book brings together the works of scholars who have investigated logics and routines of action in the field of immigration control within a single and innovative theoretical framework. The chapters cover a wide range of policy domains, from visa policy to the externalisation of controls, labour migration to asylum, internal controls towards irregular migration to restrictions for intra-EU mobility. By unravelling organisational strategies and practices across Europe, the book does not only contribute to dismantling the very idea of the European North-South divide in migration but also shows how Europe really works in the field of migration in times of deep economic, asylum and health crises. In this perspective, the book questions the widespread understanding of migration control outcomes as simply the result of more or less effective state policies without considering the embeddedness of the national policy goals and strategies in the dynamic interplay of different economies, institutional cultures and geopolitical positions.

Challenges national based typologies on immigration control Offers a new picture of migratory Europe in times of crisis This book is available open access and free to read online This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access

Autorentext

Claudia Finotelli, holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Münster (Germany) and is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Sociology of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). Since 2018 she is Research Associate of the International Forum of Research on Migration in Turin (Italy). Her research interests cover the areas of migration control, integration policies and citizenship in comparative perspective with a special focus on Southern Europe. She has participated in several international projects on the regulation of migration and has published extensively on migration control and irregular migration in international journals.

Irene Ponzo is currently the Deputy Director of FIERI (Forum of International and European Research on Immigration, Italy). She has a background in political sociology and holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Sociological Research from the University of Turin (Italy). Her main research interests concern integration policies and asylum governance, with a prevailing focus on the local level and the multilevel dynamics. She has also extensively worked on migrant and refugee inclusion, paying a specific attention to the effects of economic recessions. She has participated in several EU-funded projects, both research-focused and policy-oriented, and published books and articles with international publishers.

Klappentext

Building upon the concept of migration regime, this open access book brings together the works of scholars who have investigated logics and routines of action in the field of immigration control within a single and innovative theoretical framework. The chapters cover a wide range of policy domains, from visa policy to the externalisation of controls, labour migration to asylum, internal controls towards irregular migration to restrictions for intra-EU mobility. By unravelling organisational strategies and practices across Europe, the book does not only contribute to dismantling the very idea of the European North-South divide in migration but also shows how Europe really works in the field of migration in times of deep economic, asylum and health crises. In this perspective, the book questions the widespread understanding of migration control outcomes as simply the result of more or less effective state policies without considering the embeddedness of the national policy goals and strategies in the dynamic interplay of different economies, institutional cultures and geopolitical positions.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Introduction. Understanding Migration Controls in Europe.- Chapter 2. External Controls: Policing Entries, Enforcing Exits.- Chapter 3. Practices of External Control: Is there a North-South Divide?.- Chapter 4. A European Externalisation Strategy? A Transnational Perspective on Aid, Border Regimes, and the EU Trust Fund for Africa in Morocco.- Chapter 5. The Genealogy of the External Dimension of the Spanish Immigration Regime: When a Bricolage National Policy Becomes a Driver of Europeanisation.- Chapter 6. Challenges and Ambiguities of the Policies for Immigrants' Regularisation: The Portuguese Case in Context.- Chapter 7. Knowledge Production through Regularisation and Ex-Post Regulation Strategies: Italy and Germany Compared.- Chapter 8. Differently Similar. The Quest for Migration Control in The Netherlands and Spain.- Chapter 9. Selecting by Origin Revisited: On the Particularistic Turn of German Labour Migration Policy.- Chapter 10. The Admission of Foreign Workers to Italy: Closing the Gap" with Northern Europe.- Chapter 11. Seasonal Workers in Agriculture: The Cases of Spain and The Netherlands in Times of Covid-19.- Chapter 12. Migration Policy and Welfare Chauvinism in the United Kingdom: European Divergence or Trend-Setting?.- Chapter 13. Turning the Welfare-Migration Nexus Upside-Down: The Case of European Retirees in Spain.- Chapter 14. Welcome Culture and Bureaucratic Ambiguity: Germany's Complex Asylum Regime.- Chapter 15. Looking into Policy Change: How the Italian Asylum Regime Came of Age.- Chapter 16. The Greek Asylum Regime: From Latecomer on Reception to Inspirational Model on Asylum Procedures.- Chapter 17. Concluding Remarks: Towards a New Conceptualisation of Similarities and Differences in European Migration Controls.