| Description |
1 online resource (251 pages) |
| Series |
IMISCOE research series, 2364-4095 |
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IMISCOE research series.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Research Questions and Design -- 1.2 Structure of the Book -- Bibliography -- Part I: Theoretical Study -- Chapter 2: The Study of Irregular Migration -- 2.1 Definition and Taxonomies -- 2.2 Irregular Migration from an Historical Perspective -- 2.3 Numbers -- 2.4 State Policies and Irregular Migration -- 2.4.1 Policy Formation -- 2.4.2 Policies that Affect Irregular Migration -- 2.4.3 Policy Implementation -- 2.5 Irregular Migrants Lived Experience -- 2.5.1 Life, Adaptation and Social Interactions |
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2.5.2 Work and Subsistence -- 2.5.3 Irregular Migrants' Counterstrategies -- 2.6 The Consequences of Irregular Migration -- 2.6.1 Economic Consequences -- 2.6.2 Political Consequences and Social Consequences -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Irregular Migration Theories -- 3.1 The Gap Hypothesis Debate -- 3.1.1 Is There a Gap? -- 3.1.2 What Gaps? -- 3.2 Irregular Migration as States' Failure -- 3.2.1 Intrinsic Limitations of States and Policies -- 3.2.2 External Constraints of States and Irregular Migration -- The Effects of Globalization: Economy, Politics and Society |
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Economic Globalization and Irregular Migration -- Political/Legal Globalization and Irregular Migration -- Social Globalization and Irregular Migration -- The Irregular Migration Industry -- 3.2.3 Internal Constraints of States and Irregular Migration -- The Role of the Informal Economy -- The Role of Migrants' Agency -- Internal Social Constraints -- 3.3 Irregular Migration as Choice of States -- 3.3.1 State Imperatives and Irregular Migration -- State Sovereignty and Irregular Migration -- Governmentality Techniques and Irregular Migration -- Self-Restraint of States and Irregular Migration |
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3.3.2 States and Social Demands -- Economic Interests and Irregular Migration -- The State as a Broker of Social Demands: Pragmatic Solutions, Symbolic Policies -- 3.4 Critical Discussion of the Main Theoretical Explanations of Irregular Migration -- 3.4.1 Irregular Migration as an Undifferentiated, Mono-causal Phenomenon -- 3.4.2 Epistemological Problems and Reductionisms -- The Double-Edged Heritage of Methodological Nationalism -- Reductionisms: The State and Society -- Reductionisms: Social Interactions -- The Sedentary Bias |
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3.4.3 Summary: Problematic Aspects in the Theorizing of Irregular Migration -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Understanding Irregular Migration Through a Social Systems Perspective -- 4.1 The Semantics of the Modern State and Society -- 4.2 Elements of Niklas Luhmann's Social Systems Theory -- 4.2.1 Systems -- 4.2.2 Social Systems and Society -- 4.2.3 Social Differentiation and Modern Society -- 4.2.4 Modern Society as World Society -- 4.2.5 The State Beyond Modern State Semantics -- 4.3 Irregular Migration as a Structural Phenomenon of World Society -- 4.3.1 Migration in World Society |
| Summary |
This open access book provides an alternative theoretical framework of irregular migration that allows to overcome many of the contradictions and theoretical impasses displayed by the majority of approaches in current literature. The analytical framework allows moving from an interpretation biased by methodological nationalism, to a more general systemic interpretation. It explains irregular migration as a structural phenomenon or contemporary society, and why state policies are greatly ineffective in their attempt to control irregular migration. It also explains irregular migration as a diversified phenomenon that relates to the social characteristics of the context, and why states accept irregular migrants. By providing new comparative, empirical, qualitative material which allows to start filling an evident gap in the current research on irregular migration, this book is of interest to graduate students, scholars and policy makers.-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
4.3.2 States and Migrants |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Emigration and immigration
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| SUBJECT |
Ecuador -- Emigration and immigration
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Amsterdam (Netherlands) -- Emigration and immigration
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Madrid (Spain) -- Emigration and immigration
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Ecuador
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Netherlands -- Amsterdam
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Spain -- Madrid
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783030409036 |
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3030409031 |
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