Labor Unions and Immigration Policy in France

Haus, Leah

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“…Yet patterns of class mobilization have also worked against the extension of rights to immigrants or ethnic minority groups. The workers' movement has had at best an ambivalent relationship towards immigrants (Castles and Kosack, 1973:127-128;Haus, 1999). Concerns about preserving privileged access to resources appear at least as powerful as arguments about universal justice.…”

Section: State and Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

Theorizing Migration Policy: Is There a Third Way?

Boswell

2007

International Migration Review

210

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This article critically reviews theories of migration policy according to two criteria: methodological rigor and explanatory plausibility. It finds that political economy accounts are theoretically robust, but at the price of oversimplification. Neo-institutional theories offer more sophisticated accounts, but fall short on a number of methodological and explanatory counts. As an alternative, this article suggests a theory focusing on the functional imperatives of the state in the area of migration, which shape its responses to societal interests and institutional structures.Recent literature on the theory of migration policy has tended to be dominated by two overlapping themes: the question of why migration policies fail; and attempts to explain the inclusionary tendency of migration and integration policies. While the two issues are often treated together -and may indeed be similarly theorized -they are in principle separable. The first deals with the gap between (proclaimed) policy objectives and outcomes. It seeks to explain why states fail to achieve the goals set out in their stated migration policies (Hollifield, 1986(Hollifield, , 2000Castles, 2004; Cornelius et al. , 1992:3). The second theme is concerned with explaining the gap between the generally protectionist bent of public opinion in democratic states, and the more inclusionary policies that often emerge. While this may be understood as one dimension of the policy failure issue, it does in fact raise a rather different set of questionsquestions which may be obscured if we treat it as a subset of the first theme. Posing the question this second way implies a more narrow focus on the configuration of interests, ideas, and institutions that shape policy. It also allows us to address more specifically the question of why migration policy in liberal states does not succumb to the pressures for closure apparently endemic in democratic and welfare state systems (Bommes and Geddes, 2000;Hollifield, 2004).While there are any number of theories for explaining the first gap, recent attempts to theorize the second have been dominated by two schools: neoclassical political economy, as exemplified in the work of Gary P. Freeman; and various 1 Many thanks to Michael Bommes, Gary Freeman, James Hollifield, Mark Miller, and the anonymous reviewers at IMR for their very helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper.

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Section: State and Societymentioning

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Theorizing Migration Policy: Is There a Third Way?

Boswell

2007

International Migration Review

210

136

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“…TRANSFER 3/03 478 3 There are, without doubt, reasons for 'getting the immigrants into the unions' (which some unionists do not hide). Immigrants are a 'source of strength' for unions (Watts 1999) and there are not only ideological reasons, but also 'strategic reasoning' in the relationship between unionism and immigration (Haus 1999). In our study, one immigrant unionist put it this way, 'we too play a part in developing union strength', alluding to his work recruiting immigrants to the union.…”

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Trade unionism and immigration: reinterpreting old and new dilemmas

Cachón

Vallés

2003

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

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The social and economic changes that have taken place since the mid-1980s in Spain and other southern European countries have paved the way for their emergence as new countries of immigration. Trade unionism in these countries has had to face this new situation at a time of great changes in the world of employment and this has posed new challenges for union structures. This article reports on recent empirical research into Spanish trade unionists’ attitudes towards immigrant workers within this new context. A research method first used in other European countries is employed here to give a fresh perspective to dilemmas highlighted in previous studies and to suggest possible solutions.

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“…Holgate (2005) confirms these problems in respect of visible ethnic minority recruitment to UK unions. Some research on French and Belgian unions points to similar tensions (Bataille, 1997;2000;Coenen, 1999;Haus, 1999;Morice, 2002;Poutignat et al, 2004;Tripier, 1990;. But with these partial exceptions, the processes of exclusion or inclusion of visible ethnic minorities and differences between national-and workplace-level experiences have been largely ignored.…”

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“…It first reviews the literature describing the evolution of national union policies on racism. Western Europe's trade unions now generally oppose direct racism and in particular racist and xenophobic political parties such as the French National Front (Bataille, 2000; Haus, 1999). As many as four out of five British Trades Union Congress (TUC) trade unions have policies on issues of concern to black, minority ethnic and migrant workers (TUC, 2005: 5).…”

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Trade unions and racism in London, Brussels and Paris public transport

Jefferys

Ouali

2007

Industrial Relations Journal

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This article considers how trade unions respond to systemic racism at work. Based on case studies in the UK, Belgium and France, it identifies a gap between the nationallevel anti-racist policies of several European trade unions and local-level union workplace practices: direct racism is often denied and indirect racism rarely challenged. It describes and analyses this gap arguing that unions must more consciously champion anti-racism and recommends a leadership role for workplace representatives.

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Labor Unions and Immigration Policy in France

Abstract: The majority of French unions favored restrictionist immigration policy measures in the interwar period. In contrast, French unions have adopt-

Cited by 12 publications

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Theorizing Migration Policy: Is There a Third Way?

Theorizing Migration Policy: Is There a Third Way?

Trade unionism and immigration: reinterpreting old and new dilemmas

Trade unions and racism in London, Brussels and Paris public transport

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