What Is Immigration Policy For?

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-5292-3858-7
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 126 mm x 199 mm, Gewicht: 234 g

Reihe: What Is It For?

A deeply researched look at the debate around immigration policy, and possible paths forward.

Does political rhetoric on immigration policy match what is actually happening on the ground? Why do well-intentioned plans fail? Could immigration policy be done better?

This book explores what immigration policy seeks to achieve and why so many people end up unhappy with the outcome. Drawing on decades of research and examples from high-income countries around the world, it exposes the unavoidable trade-offs governments face, and the impacts of their choices on people and communities.

It reveals how we got here, why the policy challenge is so difficult, and how we get to a better place.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sumption, Madeleine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturpolitik, Kulturmanagement
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Sicherheitsrecht Ausländerrecht, Asylrecht, Flüchtlingsrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction

2 What is Immigration Policy Trying to Achieve?

3 Skilled Work Visas

4 Low-Wage Work

5 Family Migration

6 Unauthorized Migration and Enforcement

7 Refugees and Asylum Seekers

8. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Madeleine Sumption is the Director of the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford, which provides impartial analysis of migration in the UK. Since 2016, she has been a member of the Migration Advisory Committee, an independent panel that advises the UK Government on migration. She also chairs the National Statistician’s advisory panel on migration statistics. Madeleine has a PhD in Public Policy from the University of Maastricht and a master’s degree with honours from the University of Chicago’s school of public policy. In 2017, she received an MBE for services to social science.