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Labour's Immigration Policy : the Making of the Migration State.

This volume explains how and why the New Labour governments transformed Britain's immigration system from a highly restrictive regime to one of the most expansive in Europe, otherwise known as the Managed Migration policy. It offers the first in-depth and candid account of this period of dramat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Consterdine, Erica
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • List of Tables
  • Chapter 1: Introduction: The Puzzle of Managed Migration
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Unpacking the Migration State
  • 1.3 Multiple Lenses
  • 1.4 Plan of the Book
  • References
  • Chapter 2: A Framework for Understanding Immigration Policy
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.1.1 Defining Policy Change
  • 2.2 Organised Interests: Non-governmental Actors and Policy Networks
  • 2.2.1 Policy Context: Organised Interests and Immigration Policy Change
  • 2.3 Do Parties Matter: Political Parties and Party Ideology2.3.1 Political Parties and the Politics of Immigration
  • 2.4 Historical Institutionalism: Institutional Change, Policy Framings and Critical Junctures
  • 2.4.1 Institutions and Immigration Policy
  • 2.5 Methodology and Research Design
  • References
  • Chapter 3: Making the Migration State: The History of Britainâ#x80;#x99;s Immigration Policy
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Maintaining Fortress Britain: 1948â#x80;#x93;1970
  • 3.3 1970â#x80;#x93;1980: Joining the Community
  • 3.4 1980â#x80;#x93;1997: Swamping Britain and the Asylum Crisis3.5 Immigration Policy Under New Labour
  • 3.6 Dealing with the Asylum Crisis: 1997â#x80;#x93;2000
  • 3.7 2000â#x80;#x93;2005: The Making of Managed Migration
  • 3.7.1 Our Competitive Future: High-skilled Migration
  • 3.7.2 Work Permits
  • 3.7.3 Low and Semi-skilled: SAWS, SBS and Working Holidaymakers
  • 3.7.4 Student Immigration: PMI and Post-study Work Visa
  • 3.7.5 A8 Accession
  • 3.7.6 Managed Migration: Points-based System
  • 3.8 2005â#x80;#x93;2010: Rowing Back
  • 3.9 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 4: In Whose Interest? Organised Interests, Policy Networks and Collective Action4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Lobbying Strategies
  • 4.3 Britainâ#x80;#x99;s Immigration Policy Network
  • 4.3.1 Trade Associations/Employer Associations
  • 4.3.2 Professional Bodies and Sectional Interest Groups
  • 4.3.3 Labour Unions
  • 4.3.4 Think Tanks
  • 4.3.5 Charities and Humanitarian NGOs
  • 4.4 Organised Interests: Power to Change?
  • 4.5 The Agenda-shaping Stage: Development of the Points-based System
  • 4.6 Consolidation of the Policy Community
  • 4.7 Conclusion
  • ""5.7.2.1 1997â#x80;#x93;2005: Asylum Crisis""