The Political Economy of Border Drawing : : Arranging Legality in European Labor Migration Policies / / Regine Paul.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Paul, Regine,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (244 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Introduction: Labor Migration Management: An Interdisciplinary Interpretive Policy Analysis --; Part I Border Drawing as a Framework for Migration Policy Analysis --; Chapter 1 Labor Migration Management as Meaningful Border Drawing --; Chapter 2 Border Drawing across Capitalist Economies, Welfare States, and Citizenship Regimes --; Chapter 3 Border Drawing in Context: Profiling Migration Histories and Policy Legacies for Comparative Analysis --; Part II Border Drawing in German, French, and British Labor Migration Policies --; Chapter 4 What Makes Migrant Workers “Legal”? Mapping Entry Regulation --; Chapter 5 A “Tool for Growth”? The Shared Cultural Political Economy of Labor Migration Policies --; Chapter 6 “Poles Don’t Even Play Cricket!” Embedding Labor Migration Policies in National Socio-Cultural Norms --; Conclusion: Border Drawing, Policy Analysis, and the Governance of Mobility in Europe --; Documents and Interviews --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781782385424; 9783110998238
• DOI: 10.1515/9781782385424
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Regine Paul.

The conditions for non-EU migrant workers to gain legal entry to Britain, France, and Germany are at the same time similar and quite different. To explain this variation this book compares the fine-grained legal categories for migrant workers in each country, and examines the interaction of economic, social, and cultural rationales in determining migrant legality. Rather than investigating the failure of borders to keep unauthorized migrants out, the author highlights the different policies of each country as “border-drawing” actions. Policymakers draw lines between different migrant groups, and between migrants and citizens, through considerations of both their economic utility and skills, but also their places of origin and prospects for social integration. Overall, migrant worker legality is arranged against the backdrop of the specific vision each country has of itself in an economically competitive, globalized world with rapidly changing welfare and citizenship models.