Migration Control Logics and Strategies in Europe: A North-South Comparison (IMISCOE Research Series) - Hardcover

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Claudia Finotelli, holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Münster (Germany) and is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Sociology of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). Since 2018 she is Research Associate of the International Forum of Research on Migration in Turin (Italy). Her research interests cover the areas of migration control, integration policies and citizenship in comparative perspective with a special focus on Southern Europe. She has participated in several international projects on the regulation of migration and has published extensively on migration control and irregular migration in international journals.

Irene Ponzo is currently the Deputy Director of FIERI (Forum of International and European Research on Immigration, Italy). She has a background in political sociology and holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Sociological Research from the University of Turin (Italy). Her main research interests concern integration policies and asylum governance, with a prevailing focus on the local level and the multilevel dynamics. She has also extensively worked on migrant and refugee inclusion, paying a specific attention to the effects of economic recessions. She has participated in several EU-funded projects, both research-focused and policy-oriented, and published books and articles with international publishers.

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Building upon the concept of migration regime, this open access book brings together the works of scholars who have investigated logics and routines of action in the field of immigration control within a single and innovative theoretical framework. The chapters cover a wide range of policy domains, from visa policy to the externalisation of controls, labour migration to asylum, internal controls towards irregular migration to restrictions for intra-EU mobility. By unravelling organisational strategies and practices across Europe, the book does not only contribute to dismantling the very idea of the European North-South divide in migration but also shows how Europe really works in the field of migration in times of deep economic, asylum and health crises.  In this perspective, the book questions the widespread understanding of migration control outcomes as simply the result of more or less effective state policies without considering the embeddedness of the national policy goals and strategies in the dynamic interplay of different economies, institutional cultures and geopolitical positions.