Controlling a New Migration World explores the factors that drive recentmigration control policies and in turn sheds light on the unintendedconsequences of poli... » 

Controlling a New Migration World explores the factors that drive recentmigration control policies and in turn sheds light on the unintendedconsequences of policies for the new character of migration. This book asks howwe can account for the immigration policies of liberal states. Is the recentlinkage between migration and security a rhetorical invention of elites or areflection of changing migrant profiles? Are states control policieseffectively containing or only redirecting unwanted migration flows? Thisincreasingly relevant issue will be of great use to anyone working incomparative politics sociology and studying ethnicity or internationalmigration as well as professionals working in the migrantasylum and publiclaw fields. «