Editorial: Expert commissions and migration policy making

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip L. Martin ◽  
Eugen Stark
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Immigration Reform ◽  
Graphic Data ◽  
Temporary Foreign Workers ◽  
Advisory Commission ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Us Immigration

More countries are turning to expert commissions to assess labour market and demo-graphic data to help to answer the fundamental migration questions of how many, from where, and in what status newcomers should arrive. Britain has had a Migration Advisory Commission since 2008, and most US immigration reform proposals include commissions to assess labour market, demographic, and other data to provide advice or set quotas on the number of immigrants and temporary foreign workers admitted.

scholarly journals Constructing the nation through immigration law and legal processes of belonging

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie Molina
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Market Segmentation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Immigration Law ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Legal Subjectivity ◽  
Temporary Foreign Workers ◽  
Labour Market Segmentation ◽  
Legal Policies

The aim of this critical literature review is to define the connection between immigration policies and the construction of a national identity, and to discuss what the implications of such connections may be. Tracing how the legal subjectivity of the migrant has developed throughout time and through policy reveals how messages about the nation and Others are created, sustained, and circulated through legal policies. What values are implicit within Canadian immigration policy? How does the migrant ‘other’ help ‘us’ stay ‘us’? How do nationalist ideologies construct the Other and how is this reflected in labour market segmentation? Constructing a national identity involves categorizing migrants into legal categories of belonging, a process in which historical positions of power are both legitimized and re-established through law. Discourses about temporary foreign workers provide examples of how the Other is framed in limited terms and in opposition to that of legitimate members of Canadian society. Key Terms: Citizenship, discourse, subjectivity, immigration law, identity, power, humanitarianism, temporary foreign workers, labour market segmentation.

scholarly journals Migration-Led Institutional Change in Urban Development and Planning

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Robert Barbarino ◽  
Charlotte Räuchle ◽  
Wolfgang Scholz
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Thematic Issue ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Great Heterogeneity ◽  
And Migration

The migration-city-nexus has become central in migration and urban studies alike. This ‘local turn’ has not only initiated a rethinking of the local level as an independent level of migration policy-making but also broadened the discourse on how migration processes actually change cities. Therefore, the thematic issue at hand seeks to understand how migration-led development processes in cities promote and shape institutional change, and which actors transform policies, structures, and discourses on migration in different settings. It questions how migration-related issues in urban development are being handled and transformed by local state and civil society actors. With 11 empirical articles on local negotiations of migration in urban development in different settings, this thematic issue applies an institutional change perspective on local migration policy-making to contribute to a broader understanding of migration-led development in both urban and migration studies. When it comes to clearly capturing migration-led institutional change in urban development and planning, the contributions demonstrate great heterogeneity. They reveal that research on migration-led institutional change still has many biases and is very dependent on theoretical perspectives, positionalities of researchers, and the local context of the case studies.

scholarly journals The globalisation of trafficking and its impact on the South African counter-trafficking legislation

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-68
Author(s):  
Ingrid Palmary ◽  
Thea de Gruchy
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
National Level ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Diplomatic Relations ◽  
The South ◽  
Relevant Topic ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Cross National

This article was prompted by emerging and highly politicised debates in South Africa over the role of ‘foreign influence’ in policy-making. Whilst popular debates on this issue are often over simplified, it nevertheless seemed a relevant topic for migration policy-making given its cross-national focus. In this article, we therefore consider what influenced the development of South Africa’s 2013 Prevention and Combatting of Trafficking in Persons Act (TiP Act) as just one example of migration policy-making. Using qualitative methods, we map the influences on the South African TiP Act, and highlight how these shaped the passing of the Act, as well as the form that it took. We describe three pathways of international influence that shaped and constrained the possibilities for the Act: the global system for the governance of trafficking, the globalisation of knowledge around trafficking, and the nature of diplomatic relations. Exploring these pathways, we interrogate and unpack the idea that policy-making takes place in isolation and exclusively at a national level. Instead, this article illustrates how policy-making around issues of trafficking, and migration, takes place amidst complex and unequal global relationships.

scholarly journals Election of Donald Trump and Migration

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip L. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Executive Orders ◽  
The Us ◽  
2016 Election ◽  
And Migration

Donald Trump campaigned on seven major issues, two of which involved migration, viz, have the US build and Mexico pay for a wall on the 2,000 mile Mexico-US border and deport the 11 million unauthorized foreigners in the US. Trump also promised to reverse President Obama’s executive orders that provide temporary legal status to some unauthorized foreigners, and to “put American workers first” in migration policy making. After winning the November 2016 election, Trump modified some of his positions, announcing that deportation efforts would be focused on two million unauthorized foreigners that Trump says were convicted of US crimes.

scholarly journals Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Ruhs ◽  
Kristof Tamas ◽  
Joakim Palme
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Triangular Relationships ◽  
And Migration

International migration and integration are among the most important and controversial public policy issues of our time. The disconnect between migration policy debates and migration realities has prompted a quest for more ‘evidence-based’ debates and policy-making. This introductory chapter gives the background and explains the rationale, aims, and key contributions of the book Bridging the Gaps: Linking Research to Public Debates and Policy-Making on International Migration and Integration. It provides a basic conceptual framework for the theoretical and empirical analysis in the subsequent chapters, focusing on the triangular relationships between research, public debates, and policy-making. The chapter also includes an overview of the key insights and arguments of the theoretical reflections, case studies, and policy analyses in the book.

scholarly journals Oddities in the Canadian Labour Force in the 21st Century

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 84-96
Author(s):  
Christell Simeon
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Temporary Foreign Workers ◽  
Economic Climate ◽  
Skills Mismatch

A paradox is a term that can be used to describe an economic climate where there are many unemployed persons and yet still a large influx of temporary foreign workers? This is the labour dynamics currently existing in Canada; growing numbers of unemployed persons in provinces where simultaneously thousands of temporary foreign workers are entering the labour market to fill job vacancies. Some researchers have rationalized that this phenomenon is caused by a skills mismatch – the imbalance between the skills employees possess and those skills required to perform a particular task or role in a job (Lundberg, 2007).

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