Excluding illegal migrants in The Netherlands: Between national policies and local implementation

Leun, Joanne van der

doi:10.1080/01402380500512650

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“…Internal border control consists of a wide array of policy measures within state territory and can be contrasted with external border controls such as visa requirements and border policing (Broeders & Engbersen 2007;Guiraudon & Lahav 2007;Lahav & Guiraudon 2000; Van der Leun 2006;Zolberg 2003).…”

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Illegal Residence and Public Safety in the Netherlands

Leerkes¹

2009

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Section: The Rise Of Internal Border Controlmentioning

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Illegal Residence and Public Safety in the Netherlands

Leerkes¹

2009

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“…Given the much more serious labor market controls in European countries such as Germany and the Netherlands, these policy ambiguities are much more prominent in the United States, but they are still a fact of life in Europe as well. Policy ambiguities are found not only in economic constraints but also (and, in Europe, more often) in the resistance of professionals, civil society groups, and lower levels of government that oppose national policies or put their professional ethics above state policies (see Ellerman, 2006;Lahav & Guiraudon, 2006;van der Leun, 2006).…”

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The Fight Against Illegal Migration

Broeders

Engbersen

2007

American Behavioral Scientist

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In recent years, northern European Union (EU) member states have intensified internal surveillance on irregular migrants. Policy innovation has been geared to controlling, identifying, and even reidentifying irregular migrants who settled within their borders. Policy aims are deterrence, exclusion, and, ultimately, expulsion. Developments in labor market, detention, and expulsion policies and surveillance by the EU immigration database are analyzed in relation to the counterstrategies that irregular migrants devise to escape detection and expulsion by the state. The resulting cat and mouse game between the state and irregular migrants seems to result in a serious threat to irregular migrants' room to maneuver and further increases their dependence on informal, and increasingly criminal, networks and institutions.

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“…Immigration policies have also come to depend upon public and private institutions such as hospitals, schools and employers for their execution. This trend also results in tensions between, on the one hand, the goals and professional ethics of these organizations and the opinions and repertoires of their employees, and, on the other hand, the goals pursued by the government (BOVENS, 1996; VAN DER LEUN, 2006;PLUYMEN, 2008).…”

Section: Legitimacy Of Immigration Control Policies: a Framework For mentioning

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“…They question output legitimacy if they say policies do not adequately address social problems. For our empirical analysis this means we are not interested primarily in the motivations, norms, opinions or ethics of professionals, which often cause them to resist policy execution or 'bend the rules' ( VAN DER LEUN, 2006), but in explicit argumentations and justifications. Ours is a form of argumentative analysis interested in normative justifications and reasoning (SMITS, 2009).…”

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Policies of Exclusion and Practices of Inclusion: How Municipal Governments Negotiate Asylum Policies in the Netherlands

Kos

Maussen²,

Doomernik

2015

Territory, Politics, Governance

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There is a major gap in Dutch refugee and immigration control policies between its ambitions and outcomes. It results in considerable numbers of rejected asylum seekers who, while they cannot be expelled from the country, are excluded from government support and from opportunities to work in the belief this should encourage voluntary departure. Destitution and homelessness can often be the result, an outcome which poses problems in cities, creates a challenge for local government and triggers calls for political change from non-governmental actors. This article analyses the ways Dutch municipalities have developed practices to cushion and counteract aspects of such exclusionary national asylum policies, how these municipal actors justify these actions and how they thereby question the legitimacy of national policies and their execution. The analysis reveals the tensions that exist in the governance of migration through national policies and local practices. While not discounting the possibility that these actions and argumentations provide fuel to national political sentiments favouring the further exclusion of 'irregular' migrants, in this study we argue that at times they may also strengthen democratic policy-making and drive policy change.

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Excluding illegal migrants in The Netherlands: Between national policies and local implementation

Cited by 103 publications

References 8 publications

Illegal Residence and Public Safety in the Netherlands

Illegal Residence and Public Safety in the Netherlands

The Fight Against Illegal Migration

Policies of Exclusion and Practices of Inclusion: How Municipal Governments Negotiate Asylum Policies in the Netherlands

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