Measuring and Comparing Immigration, Asylum and Naturalization Policies Across Countries: Challenges and Solutions

Gest, Justin; Boucher, Anna; Challen, Suzanna; Burgoon, Brian; Thielemann, Eiko R.; Beine, Michel; McGovern, Patrick; Crock, Mary; Rapoport, Hillel; Hiscox, Michael

doi:10.1111/1758-5899.12132

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“…Czaika and Parsons (2015) find that supply-driven systems prove more effective in increasing the absolute numbers of high-skilled migrants and the skill composition of incoming cohorts. Also in development are two additional databases that use new approaches: the International Law and Policy Analysis (IMPALA) database (Gest et al 2014, Beine et al 2014, 2015 and the Immigration Policies in Comparison (IMPIC) database (Bjerre et al 2014). The construction of IMPALA is guided by legal experts who deconstruct immigration policies at the national level from legal texts (i.e., de jure rules) into hundreds of binary or categorical variables.…”

Section: Policy Factors Shaping High-skilled Migration Flowsmentioning

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High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration

Kerr

Özden

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Annu. Rev. Econ.

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This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the construction of global migration databases, to the legal codification of national policies regarding highskilled migration, to the analysis of patent data regarding cross-border inventor movements. A common theme throughout this research is the importance of agglomeration economies for explaining high-skilled migration. We highlight some key recent findings and outline major gaps that we hope will be tackled in the near future.

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Section: Policy Factors Shaping High-skilled Migration Flowsmentioning

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High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration

Kerr

Özden

et al. 2017

Annu. Rev. Econ.

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“…Thus, the database disregarded policy discourses and the implementation of policies. This decision to focus on the legal aspects of migration policies has been adopted by most major policy databases (such as Mayda and Patel 2004;Ortega and Peri 2012;Bjerre et al 2014;Gest et al 2014), while other, more qualitative research projects have investigated the implementation of policies on paper (Infantino 2010;Eule 2014). To a limited extent, DEMIG POLICY included contextual information such as parliamentary debates, policy strategies, and action plans wherever it seemed relevant to understand the broader context in which decisions were taken.…”

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“…Ruhs' database (Ruhs 2011) covers 46 high and middle-income countries but is limited to policies regulating labour migration in one year 2009. The ongoing Immigration Policy and Law Analysis project (IMPALA, see http://www.impaladatabase.org/) seeks to achieve policy comparability across time and space by providing a measurement of migration policies over the 1960-2010 period for 25 immigration countries, again across pre-defined policy indicators (Gest et al 2014). Notwithstanding the considerable comparative power of such absolute measures of restrictiveness, this method limits data collection and analysis to a pre-determined set of policy variables, which means that idiosyncratic, countryspecific migration policies are missed out.…”

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“…The DEMIG project thus adopted a more inclusive definition of migration policy compared to other recent dataset construction efforts: For instance, the IMPIC dataset (Bjerre et al 2014) focuses on admission policies, although it also includes deportation policies and some aspects of integration policies such as the right to work and access to welfare (while social and political rights are excluded). The IMPALA dataset (Gest et al 2014) focuses on admission policies only, although it includes an indicator for naturalization policies. It does not make explicit whether border control measures and exit policies such as return programmes or deportation are also covered.…”

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Conceptualizing and measuring migration policy change

Haas

Natter

Vezzoli

2015

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This paper outlines the methodology of DEMIG POLICY, a new database tracking around 6,000 migration policy changes in 45 countries between 1945 and 2014. The article conceptualizes the notion of migration policy change and presents the coding system used to operationalize policy content, changes in policy restrictiveness, as well as the magnitude of policy changes. The paper also discusses the potential of DEMIG POLICY to improve our understanding of the nature, evolution, and effectiveness of migration policies. Besides significantly extending the geographical and historical coverage of existing migration policy databases, DEMIG POLICY also tracks emigration policies in order to overcome the common 'receiving country bias' in migration research. By offering key insights into the main features of the largest migration policy database completed to date, this paper hopes to provide useful guidelines to improve future efforts to measure migration policies. Such improvement is crucial given the heated debates on migration policy effectiveness on one hand and the still limited empirical evidence on this issue on the other.

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“…In addition it is important to note that the degree of legal status diversity, if measured by the number of available tracks, differs by national context as do national approaches to managing migration (Gest et al 2014;Morris 2001). …”

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Legal status diversity: regulating to control and everyday contingencies

Meissner

2017

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Tracing the link between population flux and the regulation of migration, this paper develops the argument that immigration status differentiations impact not only on categorical multiplicities but also on contingent dynamics in urban migration-related diversity. A better understanding of those contingencies is central to discussing processes of adaptation in contexts of superdiversity. I first point to the frequency of change in rules and regulations pertaining to a multiplicity of immigration statuses. I then emphasise the corelevance of conditionalities of entry and parameters of presence, set out by those rules, as central components of legal status diversity. In a third part I consider the resulting differentiations in terms of information overload. Thinking about status differentiations as information contradicts devising ever more status tracks to order migration and optimise its economic and social implications. I then point to empirical patterns in legal status diversities emphasising spatiotemporal contingencies in admitting migrants through different immigration channels. Concurrently I highlight why the resulting patterns of change are relevant for local urban diversity dynamics. I conclude the paper by drawing parallels between on the one hand steering migration to optimise its implications and on the other hand steering adaptations in superdiverse contexts to optimise integration.

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Measuring and Comparing Immigration, Asylum and Naturalization Policies Across Countries: Challenges and Solutions

Abstract: Michael (2014) Measuring and comparing immigration, asylum and naturalization policies across countries: challenges and solutions.

Cited by 55 publications

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High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration

High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration

Conceptualizing and measuring migration policy change

Legal status diversity: regulating to control and everyday contingencies

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