Handbook on Migration and Public Policy

Edited by Maria Schiller, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Migration and Diversity, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Peter Scholten, Professor in the Governance of Migration and Diversity, Department of Public Administration and Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

‘Too often, migration policy scholarship has been presented as a unique case, decoupled from broader studies of public policy. This excellent collection rectifies this by bringing together a group of leading international scholars who embed their work firmly within broader approaches to public policy. In doing so, the collection not only enriches our understanding of migration policy; it also demonstrates how studying responses to migration can in turn make important contributions to theories of policy.’

• ContentsPreface xiiMigration and public policy: an introduction 1Maria Schiller and Peter ScholtenPART I MIGRATION IN DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL POLICY ANDPOLITICS1 Inter-state cooperation on international migration 11Andrew Geddes2 Governing migration in Africa: the level of regional economiccommunities 24Christopher Changwe Nshimbi3 Migration policy making in Africa: internal and external drivers of policycoordination 41Theophilus Kwabena Abutima and Leander Kandilige4 Migration policies amidst national aspiration and competing coalitions inthe Maghreb region 56Abdeslam Badre5 Migration policy in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries: recentchanges in illiberal migration states 74Anju Mary Paul6 Three faces of migration policy-making in the EU 92Sandra Lavenex and Frowin Rausis7 From integration to securitisation: the Venezuelan migration crisis and theparadigmatic change of migration policies in South America 105Taymi Milan, Cristen Dávalos and Cheryl MartensPART II TYPES OF MIGRATION AND TYPES OF POLICIES8 The pull factors of high-skilled immigration and the role of policies 126Julia Reinold and Mathias Czaika9 Middle-class migration and neoliberalism: immigration and public policyin Aotearoa/New Zealand 147Paul Spoonley10 ‘Ideological turn’, interculturalism and the making of diversity as a publicculture 165Ricard Zapata-Barrero11 Religious diversity in South Asia: influences of migration policymaking 180AKM Ahsan UllahPART III ACTORS AND DYNAMICS IN MIGRATION POLICYMAKING12 Immigration and populist political strategies: Switzerland as a metaphor 198Gianni D’Amato and Didier Ruedin13 Meeting the state: the police as actors in the discourse and governance ofmigration and integration 216Sybille Münch14 The electoral participation of immigrants in a globalised world 233Derek S. Hutcheson and Pieter Bevelander15 Immigrant civic engagement and public policy: intragroup, intergroup, andtransnational dimensions 252Felipe Amin Filomeno16 ‘Talking back’ or small steps from within: strategies of immigrant-originpoliticians and activists for more substantive political representation inDutch politics 268Ruşen Koç, Floris Vermeulen and Jaco Dagevos17 Mayors and migration policies 287Els de Graauw18 Multi-level governance revisited: entrance of the regional level inimmigrant integration policies 305Maria Schiller and Elina Jonitz19 Towards a second-generation research agenda on local integration policies? 320Andrea Pettrachin and Tiziana CaponioPART IV CONCLUSION: STATE OF THE ART, TRENDS, AND DIRECTIONSFOR FUTURE RESEARCHConclusion: contingency, contestation and cooperation in migration policy 339Peter Scholten and Maria Schiller