Self-confirming immigration policy

Giordani, Paolo; Ruta, Michele

doi:10.1093/oep/gpv065

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“…Likewise, highly skilled migrants are active social actors, and their migratory decisions to either stay permanently in a country or leave can also affect immigration policies looking to retain high skilled immigrants (Giordani, and Ruta, 2016). Moreover, whether high skilled migration should be understood as a positive or negative aspect of global migration is however still a matter of ongoing research.…”

Section: Globalization Transnationalism and Policy Studiesmentioning

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The "Other" Mexicans: Transnational Citizenship And Mexican Middle Class Migration In Toronto, Canada

Lujan¹

2021

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Mexico has one of the highest numbers of emigrants in the world (Martin, 2009) and Canada is one of the states with the highest per capita immigration rates globally (Léonard, 2011). Mexico and Canada are typical examples of immigrant and emigrant countries and both countries have developed policies and strategies that aim to foster civic participation among their immigrant and emigrant population respectively (Martin, 2009; Goldring, 2002; Barry, 2002; Li, 2002; Reitz, 2005; Bauder, 2011). In Canada, academic research on immigration has centred on the effect immigration policies and practices have on including and excluding immigrants from exercising citizenship rights but it has tended to ignore the effect emigration policies have in the development of transnational citizenship practices, such as civic engagement, political participation, social activism, and acts of solidarity that transcend the frontiers of the nation-state. This has left important questions unanswered on how transnational citizenship is developed and exercised in a migration context including: 1) which policies and practices immigrants use to exercise transnational citizenship; 2) what is the impact of transnational citizenship practices in terms of the expansion and contraction of citizenship rights in the context of migration; 3) who is included and excluded by emigration policies promoting transnational citizen engagement; and 4) how do internal community issues, conflicts, cooperation, and solidarity affect the process of transnational enacting of citizenship? I attempt to fill this research gap by studying the effects Mexican emigration policies have on promoting transnational citizenship practices among middle class Mexican immigrants in Toronto and other cities in Ontario and by showing the avenues these immigrants use in order to participate civically with Mexico and with the Mexican diaspora in Canada.

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Section: Globalization Transnationalism and Policy Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The "Other" Mexicans: Transnational Citizenship And Mexican Middle Class Migration In Toronto, Canada

Lujan¹

2021

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“…Our analysis is also based on a kind of (political) exploitation of voteless immigrants, which is regulated by a democratic process in which native voters take into account the negative effects of exploitation on the gains from immigration. Finally, our study has some relation to the strand of the immigration literature that deals with the effect of migration policies on the self-selection and assimilation of migrants (see, e.g., Giordani andRuta 2012, or Jain, Majumdar, andMukand 2010).…”

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The political economy of naturalization

Mariani

2013

Canadian J of Economics

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This paper presents a political economy model in which self‐interested natives decide when citizenship and/or voting rights should be granted to foreign‐born workers. Native voters know that immigrants hold different ‘political’ preferences and would thus tend to postpone their enfranchisement as much as possible. They also consider, however, that a more restrictive naturalization policy may reduce the gains from immigration. We find that the optimal timing of naturalization depends on the quantity, quality (productivity), and preferences of potential immigrants, the political composition and the age structure of the native population, as well as the sensitivity of migration choices to the citizenship issue.

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Interregional Migration of Human Capital and Unemployment Dynamics: Evidence from Italian Provinces

Basile

Girardi²,

Mantuano

et al. 2019

German Economic Review

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Since the mid‐1990s interregional migration flows in Italy have dramatically increased, especially from the South to the North. These flows are characterized by a strong component of human capital, involving a large number of workers with secondary and tertiary education. Using longitudinal data for the period 2002–2011 at NUTS‐3 territorial level, we document that long‐distance (i.e., South‐North) net migration of high‐skill workers has increased the unemployment at origin and decreased it at destination, thus deepening North–South unemployment disparities. On the other hand, long‐distance net migration of low‐skill workers has had the opposite effect, by lowering the unemployment at origin and raising it at destination. Further evidence also suggests that the diverging effect of high‐skill migration dominates the converging effect of low‐skill migration. Thus, concerns for an ‘internal brain drain’ from Southern regions look not groundless.

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Self-confirming immigration policy

Cited by 3 publications

References 32 publications

The "Other" Mexicans: Transnational Citizenship And Mexican Middle Class Migration In Toronto, Canada

The "Other" Mexicans: Transnational Citizenship And Mexican Middle Class Migration In Toronto, Canada

The political economy of naturalization

Interregional Migration of Human Capital and Unemployment Dynamics: Evidence from Italian Provinces

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