Controlling a New Migration World

This book examines the efforts of contemporary western states to control international migration. Its purpose is to circumscribe the new strategies and instruments of control thar migrant receiving states have devised at the local, national, and transnational levels to scope with new forms of migration that deviate fundamentally from classic, settlement-oriented immigration: illegal migration, mass asylum-seeking, circular migration patterns ‘on the ground’. This books explores the impact of migration flows on the development of state policies and, in turn, sheds light on the unintended consequences of policies for the new character of migration.

Controlling a New migration World covers or includes:

Recent migration control reforms in the US and Europe, offering theoretical frameworks that help explain the characteristics, and dilemmas, of policy-making in this area;

The new and potent linkage between migration and security, both at the levels of national and transnational elite rhetoric and local administrative practices;

Ethnographic accounts of migrants’ strategies and migration pattern in the post-guestworker and post-Cold War era, where legal ways of entry and stay have become fewer, travel easier, and the pool of potential migrants is steadily increasing

Virginie Guiraudon, Christian JoppkeControlling a New Migration World,London: Routledge 2001.