1995
DOI: 10.2307/2547729
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Abstract: "The politics of immigration in liberal democracies exhibits strong similarities that are, contrary to the scholarly consensus, broadly expansionist and inclusive. Nevertheless, three groups of states display distinct modes of immigration politics. Divergent immigration histories mold popular attitudes toward migration and ethnic heterogeneity and affect the institutionalization of migration policy and politics....I begin by discussing those characteristics of immigration politics found in all liberal democrac… Show more

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“…Ivarsflaten, 2005;McLaren and Johnson, 2007;Sides and Citrin 2007). In terms of economic migrants, businesses and other pro-immigration 'clients', such as the education sector, often lobby governments and may exercise an expansionist influence on policy compared to the restrictive preferences of the public (Freeman, 1995); although as we show below the effect of these clients may in fact vary between immigration policy sub-fields. Furthermore, in the context of the European Union, many seeking to enter are EU citizens exercising free movement rights, who cannot therefore be excluded.…”
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“…Ivarsflaten, 2005;McLaren and Johnson, 2007;Sides and Citrin 2007). In terms of economic migrants, businesses and other pro-immigration 'clients', such as the education sector, often lobby governments and may exercise an expansionist influence on policy compared to the restrictive preferences of the public (Freeman, 1995); although as we show below the effect of these clients may in fact vary between immigration policy sub-fields. Furthermore, in the context of the European Union, many seeking to enter are EU citizens exercising free movement rights, who cannot therefore be excluded.…”
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“…Whereas voters are the principal, even sole, audience for parties' political communications during election campaigns, in government parties must engage with a range of affected interests, which are often highly organised and well-14 resourced. Indeed, one influential model of immigration politics argues that it is the discrepancy between the restrictive preferences of the 'unorganised public' and the pro-immigration preferences of the 'organised public' (principally business interests) that accounts for why restrictive political discourse does not translate into equally restrictive policy outputs (Freeman, 1995). Under the previous Labour government, pro-immigration 'clients' such as the Confederation for British Industry (CBI), the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and several sector-specific industry associations, such as the British Hospitality Association and the National Farmers' Union, had become increasingly active on the immigration issue.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Castles and Miller, 1993). In an attempt to find similarities over such varied political agendas, Freeman (1995) has distinguished three immigration settings with share common trends: the English-speaking settler societies (namely, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the USA), the European states with post-colonial and guestworker migrations (Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland), and southern Europe (Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain). For this last group of countries, Freeman (1995) argued that there are two significant circumstances in which political responses are fashioned.…”
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“…Legalisation has been a powerful tool in Spanish immigration policy and it has even been suggested that legalisation is the dominant policy instrument in the country (Freeman, 1995). There have been three amnesties through the period 1985-1996.…”
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