Overview
- Demonstrates how tensions embedded in the EU project shape responses to migrants and refugees
- Offers original insights into to the paradoxes of migration policies in Europe by emphasizing the importance of legacies of the post war period
- Examines how policy legacies affect second generation migrants and policymaking at both national and local levels
- Argues that understanding this ingrained ambivalence must be the first step to tackling present-day migration issues, creating a sustainable management of migration flows and maintaining social cohesion and democracy
- Analyses migration governance in a broad range of European countries including France, Germany, Italy,The Netherlands and Spain
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Keywords
- Migration policy
- Mobility
- Immigration
- border control
- asylum seekers
- citizenship
- Fortress Europe
- refugee crisis
- Temporary Labor Model
- economic citizenship
- refugees
- securitization
- cultural and religious pluralism
- interculturalism
- diversity management
- integrationist turn
- identity strategies
- Guest Worker programme
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The Challenge of Migration in a Janus-Faced Europe is an especially thought-provoking and timely examination of the contradictory policies and attitudes underlying Europe’s treatment of immigrants. Professor Zanfrini’s analysis raises many issues that are critical for understanding the region’s apparent shifts in policy, making a convincing case that they stem from the economistic principles that have motivated the selective acceptance of non-citizens, which run counter to Europe’s overarching philosophy of rights and solidarity. (Dr. Laura Enriquez, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California – Berkeley, USA)
In the contentious (and muddled) debates on the way forward to address migration and refugee challenges in the European Union, this book revisits the rationale and philosophical underpinnings of the guestworker program and its transformation into de facto settlement, the distinctive policies towards third country nationals, and the conflicting discourses and processes surrounding migration-related issues in the current context. The historical, philosophical and ethical lens in analyzing current migration challenges, particularly the refugee crisis, help clarify how European societies can move beyond the crisis and respond to the prophetic challenge – as well as opportunity – that migration bears for the future of the region. (Dr. Marla Asis Director of Research and Publications at the Scalabrini Migration Centre, Inc (SMC) in Manila, and co-editor of the Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, Philippines)
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the current European Union migration and refugee crisis. Tracking historical contexts, Zanfrini analyzes in great detail policy contradictions, demographic trends, economic forces and their intersection with human flows and political standings. This is an obligatory reading for scholars and policy makers who want to understand the current challenges theEU faces about migration regulation and the political opportunities to formulate possible and realistic solutions. (Dr. Manuel Chavez, Michigan State University, College of Communication Arts and Sciences, Professor of International Journalism and Director of the Information and Media PhD Program, USA)
“Laura Zanfrini’s persuasively-argued work provides a succinct discussion on the politics of immigration and the legacies of the guestworker model with original analysis that highlights the paradoxes of immigration governance.” (Erica Consterdine, Sussex Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex, UK)
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Book Title: The Challenge of Migration in a Janus-Faced Europe
Authors: Laura Zanfrini
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01102-4
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-01101-7Published: 29 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-01102-4Published: 19 November 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 167
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Migration, European Politics, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Public Policy, Sociology of Racism