Why Liberal States Accept Unwanted Immigration

Joppke, Christian

doi:10.1017/s004388710000811x

Cited by 531 publications

(311 citation statements)

References 13 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

293

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…8 Restrictive immigration policies are often characterized by loopholes, that leave room for potential migrants to take advantage of economic incentives. For example, immigration to Western European countries still took place after the late Seventies, despite the official closed-door policy (Joppke 1998). Family-reunification and asylum-seekers policies can explain continuing migration inflows to Western Europe.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

International migration: a panel data analysis of the determinants of bilateral flows

2009

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In this paper I empirically investigate the determinants of migration inflows into fourteen OECD countries by country of origin, between 1980 and 1995. I analyze the effect on migration of average income and income dispersion in destination and origin countries. I also examine the impact of geographical, cultural, and demographic factors as well as the role played by changes in destination countries' migration policies. My analysis both delivers estimates consistent with the predictions of the international migration model and generates empirical puzzles.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

International migration: a panel data analysis of the determinants of bilateral flows

2009

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Policy makers see family migration often as unwanted migration (Joppke 1998), and thus this type of migration has started to become subject to increased restrictions. Family migrants tend to feature in political debates as a group that is difficult to integrate into the job market (Kofman et al 2013).…”

Section: ! 3!mentioning

confidence: 99%

Conditions of cultural citizenship: intersections of gender, race and age in public debates on family migration

Horsti

Pellander

2015

Citizenship Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Abstract:This article analyses problem framings in public debates on family migration in Finland. The study focuses on the less examined category of age and how it intersects with gender, race and religion. We examine the discursive context within which parliamentarians and the media negotiate questions of migration policies, belonging and citizenship. Our analysis identifies problem framings by combining frame analysis with the 'What is the problem represented to be?' (WPR) approach, which understands policies as problematizations.We found that the debates held up the rather common notion of vulnerable women and children as groups that tighter family migration policies protect. The debates excluded certain racialized migrant families from cultural citizenship. Simultaneously, however, the public debate 'whitewashed' other families to make them suitable for inclusion. Here, the right to care for elderly family members played a central part in negotiations over cultural citizenship.Keywords: family migration, cultural citizenship, race, media, parliamentary debates, intersectionality The names of the authors appear in alphabetical order to indicate equal contribution to the article.

show abstract

“…What drives the formation of these policies in the first place? In this section we review the explanations that have been proposed in the economics literature, while referring the interested reader to the insightful papers by, Espenshade and Colahun (1993), Joppke (1998), Berg (2009) and Ceobanu and Escandell (2010) for perspectives from other social sciences.…”

Section: The Political Economy Of Illegal Immigrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Illegal Immigration: Policy Perspectives and Challenges

Casarico¹,

Facchini²,

Frattini³

2015

CESifo Economic Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The combination of increasing immigration pressures and restrictive policies imperfectly enforced by many destination countries has made illegal immigration widespread. This paper provides an overview of the mechanisms behind the formation of migration policies and how they lead to or they limit the presence of illegal immigrants. We also study how governments deal ex-post with the presence of undocumented foreign workers by introducing immigration amnesties. We review the determinants of their introduction and address their desirability from the point of view of aggregate welfare. As countries in the EU differ substantially in the implementation of both ex-ante and ex-post immigration policies, we emphasize the need for more coordination in the area of migration policy enforcement, both at the border and within each country.

show abstract

Why Liberal States Accept Unwanted Immigration

Cited by 531 publications

References 13 publications

International migration: a panel data analysis of the determinants of bilateral flows

International migration: a panel data analysis of the determinants of bilateral flows

Conditions of cultural citizenship: intersections of gender, race and age in public debates on family migration

Illegal Immigration: Policy Perspectives and Challenges

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About