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Research on immigration policy in the European Union: A review of books
International Journal of Public Administration, Vol.42, pp.179-183
42
2018
Abstract
Among areas of key interest for public policy analysis in recent years, perhaps no topic has been as polarizing, and prone to hostile discourse, political games, and supposed solutions in the public interest masquerading ignoble intents, as immigration policy. Migration is
generally a critical matter that if handled poorly becomes a volatile issue that threatens to undermine public and private sector stability, social threads, and indeed people’s lives. Concerns regarding immigration have been especially notable in the European Union and this has been reflected in the literature. History teaches that this is not only a recent concern, and supposed contemporary views and issues are the outcome of long-term evolution of institutions, shifting relationships between nations, economic cycles, and path-dependence for policy choices made long ago. Understanding the nature of immigration in the European Union requires a broad base of means and methods, to account for the variety of perspectives that exist on this most challenging of concerns.
This essay considers three recent books on immigration policy related to the EU, including pre-EU nation-based historical assessments that help situate the current thought on the topic.
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- Title
- Research on immigration policy in the European Union
- Publication Details
- International Journal of Public Administration, Vol.42, pp.179-183
- Resource Type
- Review
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Inc.; United States
- Series
- 42
- Copyright
- © 2018 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
- Identifiers
- 99380090609606600
- Academic Unit
- Business Administration; Lewis Bear Jr. College of Business
- Language
- English