The Political Economy of Border Drawing

Arranging Legality in European Labor Migration Policies
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78920-083-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 362 g

The conditions for non-EU migrant workers to gain legal entry to Britain, France, and Germany are at the same time similar and quite different. To explain this variation this book compares the fine-grained legal categories for migrant workers in each country, and examines the interaction of economic, social, and cultural rationales in determining migrant legality. Rather than investigating the failure of borders to keep unauthorized migrants out, the author highlights the different policies of each country as “border-drawing” actions. Policymakers draw lines between different migrant groups, and between migrants and citizens, through considerations of both their economic utility and skills, but also their places of origin and prospects for social integration. Overall, migrant worker legality is arranged against the backdrop of the specific vision each country has of itself in an economically competitive, globalized world with rapidly changing welfare and citizenship models.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Paul, Regine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Migrations- & Minderheitenpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures, Tables and Boxes

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction: Labor Migration Management: A Case for Interdisciplinary and Interpretive Policy Studies

PART I: BORDER-DRAWING AS A FRAMEWORK FOR MIGRATION POLICY

Chapter 1. Labor Migration Management as Meaningful Border-Drawing

Chapter 2. Border-Drawing across Capitalist Economies, Welfare States and Citizenship Regimes

Chapter 3. Contextualized Border-Drawing: Profiling Migration Histories and Policy Legacies for Comparative Analysis

PART II: BORDER-DRAWING IN GERMAN, FRENCH AND BRITISH LABOR MIGRATION POLICIES

Chapter 4. What Makes Migrant Workers ‘Legal’? Mapping Entry Regulation

Chapter 5. A “Tool for Growth”? The Shared Cultural Political Economy of Labor Migration Policies

Chapter 6. “Poles Don’t Even Play Cricket!” Embedding Labor Migration Policies in National Socio-Cultural Norms

Conclusion: Border-Drawing, Policy Analysis, and the Governance of Mobility in Europe

Documents and Interviews

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Paul, Regine
Regine Paul is a postdoc scholar with the HowSAFE project on comparative risk regulation at the University of Bielefeld. She has published a number of scholarly articles and contributed to edited volumes on migration and mobility policies in Europe. She is also board member of the research network “European Integration and the Global Political Economy” at the Council for European Studies.