Growing Restrictiveness or Changing Selection? The Nature and Evolution of Migration Policies<sup>1</sup>

Haas, Hein de; Natter, Katharina; Vezzoli, Simona

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“…Migration policies are usually measured through the construction of migration policy indices based on an extensive review of changes in migration policies (cf. Czaika and de Haas ; de Haas, Natter, and Vezzoli ). Notwithstanding the considerable potential of such indices in gaining insights into the nature and evolution of migration policies (cf.…”

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“…There is also considerable variation over time, meaning that there has not been a unilateral linear trend toward more or less restrictiveness (cf. de Ortega and Peri ; Haas, Natter, and Vezzoli ).…”

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“…This leads to some methodological considerations. First, it is questionable to what extent it is useful to talk in terms of levels of “general restrictiveness.” In general, immigration policies are about selection rather than controlling the total volume of migrants, despite politicians’ discourses which may suggest the latter (de Haas, Natter, and Vezzoli ). Immigration policies are typically a “mixed bag” of various, incoherent, and potentially contradictory laws, measures, and regulations that target different migrant categories in different ways.…”

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The effectiveness of migration policies has been widely contested. However, because of methodological and conceptual limitations, evidence has remained inconclusive. Moreover, prior studies focus on the effects of policies on inflows and fail to assess the simultaneous effect of policies on outflows. This is essential from a theoretical point of view as immigration restrictions may reduce both inflows and outflows and, hence, overall circulation. This renders the effect of immigration restrictions on net migration theoretically ambiguous. To fill this gap, and using unique migration and visa data from the Determinants of International Migration (DEMIG) project, this paper assesses the short-and long-term effects of travel visa policy regimes on bilateral immigration and emigration dynamics. The results suggest that travel visa policies significantly decrease inflows, but this effect is undermined by decreasing outflows of the same migrant groups. This confirms that migration restrictions decrease circulation and tend to encourage long-term settlement, and thereby sharply reduce the responsiveness of migration to economic fluctuations in destination and origin societies. We also identify asymmetric policy effects with migration flows declining only very gradually after a visa introduction but increasing almost immediately after visa removal.

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2017

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“…Timmer and Williamson (, ), for instance, focus on broad measures of stringency in legislation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; the Migration Integration Policy Index focuses on policies regulating integration (Niessen et al. ); Kogan () examines “relative selectivity” surmised from immigration flows and their native counterparts;Ortega and Peri (), Mayda (), and de Haas, Natter, and Vezzoli () gauge broad legislative reforms over time within countries; Bélot and Ederveen () track cultural barriers to immigration; and (Ruhs ) measures policies regulating the social rights of migrant workers. Other efforts have examined particular features of policy, including asylum and refugee policies, particularly in Europe (Thielemann , , ; Hatton , ; Neumayer ; Lowell ; Cerna ; Czaika ), and citizenship policies (Waldrauch and Hofinger ; Howard , , ; Koopmans et al.…”

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“…Second, most studies are very limited in their coverage with respect to space and/or time, focusing on small cross‐sections of countries or on circumscribed and/or widely spaced time periods. Third, more systematic measures that have been developed to allow systematic study for a number of countries and large periods of time (Ortega and Peri ; Mayda ; de Haas, Natter, and Vezzoli ) focus on overtime reforms vis a vis a given country's past policy, providing little leverage for systematically gauge policy stringency across countries at a given point in time.…”

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Comparing Immigration Policies: An Overview from the IMPALA Database

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International audienceThis paper introduces a method and preliminary findings from a database that systematically measures the character and stringency of immigration policies. Based on the selection of that data for nine countries between 1999 and 2008, we challenge the idea that any one country is systematically the most or least restrictive toward admissions. The data also reveal trends toward more complex and, often, more restrictive regulation since the 1990s, as well as differential treatment of groups, such as lower requirements for highly skilled than low-skilled labor migrants. These patterns illustrate the IMPALA data and methods but are also of intrinsic importance to understanding immigration regulation

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Regulations in the era of new‐type urbanisation and migrant workers' settlement intentions: The case of Beijing

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Zhao

2020

Population Space and Place

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The most important determinant of migration decisions across the globe is economic gain, and attempts to regulate access to a better life have been met with contention. Most previous studies debate on whether regulations successfully restrict the numbers of migrants. However, more recent work points to their focus on migrant selection. Because the New‐type Urbanisation Plan was introduced in 2014, China's mega‐cities (populations of 10 million or more) have begun limiting migrants by job skills. For example, cities with upgraded industrial structures are adopting regulations that support the attraction and retention of high‐skilled migrants while allowing them to refuse an influx of low‐skilled workers. What impact have such regulations had on migration? This article explores how these targeted regulations shape migrant workers' long‐term (i.e., 5 years or more) settlement intentions in the mega‐city of Beijing. Drawing on the China Migrants Dynamic Survey data—commissioned by the National Health Commission and collected in 2012, 2014 and 2017—we find that the proportion of migrants planning to remain in Beijing long term has dropped substantially. While migrants continue to leave small hometowns assuming they will be paid more for their work in mega‐cities such as Beijing, new regulations have lessened the effects of the income differentials between hometowns and the host city. Such a decline in influence is most pronounced among migrant workers in traditional industries (e.g., manufacturing, construction and retail) who are targeted by the regulations.

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Growing Restrictiveness or Changing Selection? The Nature and Evolution of Migration Policies¹

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