Migration Control Logics and Strategies in Europe : A North-South Comparison.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Finotelli, Claudia.
Other Authors: Ponzo, Irene.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2023.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:IMISCOE Research Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1: Introduction: Understanding Migration Controls in Europe
  • 1.1 From Models of Migration Control to Migration Control Regimes
  • 1.2 The North-South Divide as the Undying European Cleavage
  • 1.3 E Pluribus Unum: Bringing Like-Minded Scholars Together
  • References
  • Part I: Visa Policy and External Controls
  • Chapter 2: External Controls: Policing Entries, Enforcing Exits
  • 2.1 Introduction: Do External Control Policies "Converge"?
  • 2.2 A Critique of the Implicit Conceptual Framing of Debates on Convergence
  • 2.3 A Tale of Policy Convergence: Short-Term Visas as a Generalised System of Migration Control
  • 2.3.1 Patterns of Short-Term Visas Issued by European States
  • 2.4 Return and Removal Policies: Failed Convergence and the Inconsistency of the North-South Divide Argument
  • 2.4.1 EU Return Policies: A North/South Divide?
  • 2.5 Conclusions
  • Appendix A Note on Data
  • References
  • Documents Cited
  • Chapter 3: Practices of External Control: Is There a North-South Divide?
  • 3.1 The Logics of External Control: From Schengen to Italy
  • 3.2 The Practices of External Control: A View from EU Texts
  • 3.3 The Blurring Boundaries of Control Practices
  • 3.4 A Model of "Europeanization" from Below?
  • 3.5 Conclusions
  • References
  • Part II: The Externalisation of Control
  • Chapter 4: A "European" Externalisation Strategy? A Transnational Perspective on Aid, Border Regimes, and the EU Trust Fund for Africa in Morocco
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Theory: Transnational Governmentality, the Transnational Social Field, and Governing Through Aid
  • 4.3 Governing Migration Through Aid in the Western Mediterranean
  • 4.4 What the Implementation of the EUTF Tells About "Externalisation"
  • 4.4.1 De-centring and Re-centring Morocco in the European Border Control Strategy.
  • 4.4.2 Heterogeneous Strategies and the NGO-Isation of EU Member States
  • 4.4.3 The EUTF and Morocco's Migration Diplomacy
  • 4.5 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 5: The Genealogy of the External Dimension of the Spanish Immigration Regime: When a Bricolage National Policy Becomes a Driver of Europeanisation
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Top-Down Europeanisation: Spain's European Obligations and National Apathy
  • 5.3 The Transition: Spain's Ascent to an Active Role in the Development of the External Dimension of the European Immigration Regime
  • 5.4 Bottom-Up Europeanisation: Spain's Key Role in the Construction of the External Dimension of Immigration Policy
  • 5.5 Spain: A Model for the External Dimension of Immigration Policies in Europe?
  • 5.6 Conclusions: Reaping the Benefits?
  • References
  • Part III: Internal Controls
  • Chapter 6: Challenges and Ambiguities of the Policies for Immigrants' Regularisation: The Portuguese Case in Context
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Regularisations in Portugal: In Search of a Policy
  • 6.2.1 A Series of Policy Measures
  • 6.2.2 The Changing Alignment of Interests: The Erosion of the Political Consensus Around Immigration?
  • 6.3 The Portuguese Case in Perspective
  • 6.4 Final Remarks
  • References
  • Chapter 7: Knowledge Production Through Regularisation and Ex-Post Regulation Strategies: Italy and Germany Compared
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 When the Exception Becomes the Rule: The Role of Regularisations in the Italian Migration Regime
  • 7.3 The Path to "Real" Residence: Forms of Regularisation in the German Migration Regime
  • 7.3.1 From the Suspension of Deportation to Residence Regularisation
  • 7.3.2 Lights and Shadows of Ex-Post Regulation Tools in Germany
  • 7.4 Conclusion: The Significance of Regularisations and Ex-Post Regulations Across Regimes
  • References.
  • Chapter 8: Differently Similar: The Quest for Migration Control in the Netherlands and Spain
  • 8.1 Introduction
  • 8.2 The Quest for Migration Control: Policies and Implementation
  • 8.3 Internal Controls in Amsterdam and Madrid: A Case Study
  • 8.3.1 Work Controls
  • 8.3.2 Ad-hoc Identity and Documentation Controls
  • 8.3.3 Housing and Healthcare Controls
  • 8.4 Internal Migration Controls in the Netherlands and Spain: Differently Similar?
  • References
  • Part IV: Labour Migration Policy
  • Chapter 9: "Selecting by Origin" Revisited: On the Particularistic Turn of German Labour Migration Policy
  • 9.1 Introduction
  • 9.2 Source-Country Particularism: Germany's Labour Migration Regime Before 2000
  • 9.2.1 The Pioneer of Labour Migration Policy in Post War-Germany: Guest Worker Recruitment 1955-1973
  • 9.2.2 Exceptions from the Ban After 1973: Migration by Ordinance and Bilateral Agreements in the 1990s
  • 9.3 Triumph of Meritocracy: A Universalized Regime for the Twenty-First Century
  • 9.3.1 First Steps of Farewell to a Labour Migration Policy Based on Countries of Origin: The German Green Card
  • 9.3.2 Qualifications in the Centre: The Immigration Act of 2005 as Paradigm Shift
  • 9.3.3 Implementing the Blue Card - And Much More Than That
  • 9.3.4 The Culmination of Selecting by Qualifications: The Skilled Immigration Act
  • 9.4 Back to the Sixties: The Return of a Policy of "Selecting by Country of Origin"?
  • 9.4.1 Selecting by Origin in the Legal Framework: The Western Balkans Regulation
  • 9.4.2 The Institutional Framework: Labour Demand, Migration Control and Development Cooperation as Drivers of Particularism
  • 9.4.2.1 Triple-Win Programmes, Bilateral Agreements and Skilled Labour Bridges
  • 9.4.2.2 Migration Advisory Centres
  • 9.4.2.3 Recruiting Seasonal Workers.
  • 9.5 Discussion and Conclusion: Blurring Boundaries and Unexpected Similarities Between Germany and Southern Europe
  • References
  • Chapter 10: The Admission of Foreign Workers to Italy: Closing the "Gap" with Northern Europe
  • 10.1 Introduction
  • 10.2 Northern European Labour Immigration Regimes
  • 10.3 The Italian Labour Immigration Regime
  • 10.3.1 Italian Labour Immigration Regime Mid 1990s - 2008
  • 10.3.1.1 Entry Mechanisms: Annual Quotas and Recruitment from Abroad
  • 10.3.1.2 Regularisations
  • 10.3.1.3 Mobile EU Citizens: Functional Equivalents of Non-EU Labour Immigrants
  • 10.3.2 Italian Labour Immigration Regime 2008-2020
  • 10.3.2.1 Drivers of Policy Change: Economic and Humanitarian Crises and Alternative Sources of Labour
  • 10.3.2.2 Quantitative and Qualitative Changes in Annual Quotas
  • 10.3.2.3 Regularisations
  • 10.3.2.4 The Facilitation of Highly Skilled Non-EU Labour Immigrants
  • 10.4 Differences and Similarities Between the Italian and Northern European Regimes
  • 10.4.1 Differences
  • 10.4.1.1 Admission of Low and Medium Skilled Non-EU Migrant Workers
  • 10.4.1.2 Inflexibility
  • 10.4.1.3 Implementation Gaps
  • 10.4.2 Similarities
  • 10.4.2.1 Entry Mechanisms and Skills
  • 10.4.2.2 Inflexibility and Implementation Gaps
  • 10.4.2.3 Free Movement and Functional Equivalents to Non-EU Labour Migrants
  • 10.5 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 11: Seasonal Workers in Agriculture: The Cases of Spain and The Netherlands in Times of Covid-19
  • 11.1 Introduction
  • 11.2 Migration Regimes in the Light of the Governance of MLS
  • 11.3 Spain
  • 11.3.1 Becoming an Immigration Country
  • 11.3.2 Labour Migration Policies
  • 11.3.3 Agricultural Seasonal Work: Past and Present
  • 11.3.4 Working in Times of Covid-19
  • 11.4 The Netherlands
  • 11.4.1 Three Origins of Immigration
  • 11.4.2 Labour Immigration Policies.
  • 11.4.3 Seasonal Work: Past and Present
  • 11.4.4 Working in Times of Covid-19
  • 11.5 Conclusion
  • References
  • Part V: Intra-EU Mobility
  • Chapter 12: Migration Policy and Welfare Chauvinism in the United Kingdom: European Divergence or Trend-Setting?
  • 12.1 Introduction: The European Way to Brexit
  • 12.2 Post-war Britain: Between Welfare Chauvinism and European Marketisation
  • 12.3 Global Britain at the Heart of the European Regime
  • 12.4 Austerity and the "Hostile Environment"
  • 12.5 Brexit: Reconfiguring the Migration-Welfare Nexus
  • 12.6 Conclusions: A Very British European Regime?
  • References
  • Chapter 13: Turning the Welfare-Migration Nexus Upside-Down: The Case of European Retirees in Spain
  • 13.1 Introduction
  • 13.2 Intra-EU Retirement Migration in Europe and in Spain: An Overview
  • 13.2.1 The Healthcare "Scrounger" Stereotype
  • 13.3 Cross-Border Healthcare Provision for EU Citizens
  • 13.3.1 The European Framework
  • 13.3.2 The Provision of Cross-Border Healthcare in Spain
  • 13.4 Intra-EU Mobility: Between Welfare Restrictions and New Market Opportunities
  • 13.5 Conclusion
  • References
  • Part VI: Asylum Policy
  • Chapter 14: Welcome Culture and Bureaucratic Ambiguity: Germany's Complex Asylum Regime
  • 14.1 Welcome Culture in the Crisis of 2015 and Afterwards
  • 14.2 Quality Problems in the German Asylum Decision System
  • 14.3 British and Italian Parallels and the Common Tension Between Asylum Principles and the Political Will to Reject Asylum Claims
  • 14.4 The Policies of Backlog and Encampment
  • 14.5 Best Practices in Europe and the Reluctance to Optimise
  • 14.6 Conclusion: Administrative Ambiguity in an Integrative Asylum Regime
  • 14.7 Postscript: The New Regime for Displaced Ukrainians - A Blueprint?
  • References
  • Chapter 15: Looking Into Policy Change: How the Italian Asylum Regime Came of Age.
  • 15.1 Introduction.