Book: Crossing and Controlling Borders. Immigration Policies and their Impact on Migrants’ Journeys

23 août 2011 admin Recent Publications

Crossing borders has been always a great challenge for human beings. This volume explores the policies of border controls and their impact on migrants’ journeys. Two major areas of immigration are analysed: the European Union and the United States of America. Empirical insights from ethnography with approaches from political science are combined in this book to highlight the impact of migration control policies on migration routes, migrants´ lives and policies of origin, transit and targeted countries.

For what concerns Africa, two important migration trends have been considered: the migration of Senegalese and that of Moroccans in the European Union. As a departure point and a transit country for many migrants from Sub-Saharan-Africa, Senegal plays an important role in migration management between Europe and Africa. In a contribution entitled “The Senegalese Predicament: Migration from Senegal to Europe: Policies, Control, and Implementation”, Florence Tsagué Assopgoum examines some of the main trends of migration from Senegal to Europe. Agricultural, political and economic crisis, overfishing by European companies are some of the factors which turn many people in Senegal into migrants or would-be-migrants. Senegal’s migration policy, migrant’s interests and those of European countries to curb irregular migration from Africa put this country in a predicament.

As Senegal, Morocco is an important emigration, transit and immigration country too. In the contribution ““It’s been the best journey of my life”: Governing migration and migrants’ strategies in front of Europe’s borders: Morocco”, Gerda Heck shows the effect of the changing European migration politics on the situation of migrants in Morocco and how these migrants develop different strategies to migrate Europe.

Further contributions of important scholars show how the problem of borders control is becoming more and more essential for the concerned countries in migration issues. This volume must be read to grasp the major points of borders control, migration policies and implementation in Europe and America

 Contributions:

Linking Immigration Policies and Migrants’ Journeys: An Interdisciplinary Endeavor
(Mechthild Baumann, Astrid Lorenz, Kerstin Rosenow)

Reinventing Europe’s Borders: Delocalization and Externalization of EU Migration Control through the Involvement of Third Countries
(Sandra Gil Araújo)

Success at Second Glance: Regularizations of Irregular Migrants in Spain
(Axel Kreienbrink)

“It’s Been the Best Journey of My Life”: Governing Migration and Strategies of Migrants at Europe’s Borders: Morocco
(Gerda Heck)

The Senegalese Predicament: Migration from Senegal to Europe: Policies, Control, and Implementation
(Florence Tsagué Assopgoum)

Dead End for Migrants? The Europeanization of Ukraine’s Migration
(Marianne Haase)

Turkey at the Crossroads Between the Middle East and the EU: Changing Border Control and Security Policies
(Basak Bilecen-Süoglu)

Undocumented Immigration between the U.S. and Mexico: The Complex Development of Militarized Borders and Social Responses
(Avital Bloch and Ma. Alejandra Rocha Silva)

Evaluating Recent U.S. Immigration Control Policy: What Mexican Migrants Can Tell Us
(Wayne Cornelius)

Economic Policy Matters: Incentives that Drive Mexicans Northward
(Kathleen Staudt and Sergio Garcia-Rios)

Caught in Mobility: An Ethnographic Analysis of the Context of Knowledge Production on Migration in Southeast Europe
(Sabine Hess)

The Limits of Hospitality. Undocumented Migration and the Local Arena: The Case of Lampedusa
(Heidrun Friese)

Unintended Effects of Immigration Policies for Governments and Migrants: Conclusions
(Mechthild Baumann, Astrid Lorenz, Kerstin Rosenow)

For more information:

Crossing and Controlling Borders. Immigration Policies and their Impact on Migrants’ Journeys

http://www.budrich-unipress.de/product_info.php?products_id=103

ISBN: 978-3-940755-76-6 
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Shipping time: 5-7 Days
Year of Publication: 05/2011
290 Pages
Language: English
Type of Publication: Book, Paperback
Price: EUR 33.00

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