1st Edition

The Global Economic Crisis and Migration

Edited By Christof Roos, Natascha Zaun Copyright 2018
164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

Offering an in-depth analysis of the impact of the economic crisis (2008–2012) on immigration movements and policies in the U.S. and Europe, the analysis in this book is guided by two key questions: What is the scope of change?; and did the crisis motivate this change or did other factors do so? The contributions to the book find that the crisis had immediate effects on migration patterns –... Read more

Introduction: The global economic crisis as a critical juncture? The crisis’s impact on migration movements and policies in Europe and the U.S. Christof Roos and Natascha Zaun

1. Circumventing deadlock through venue-shopping: why there is more than just talk in US immigration politics in times of economic crisis Natascha Zaun, Christof Roos and Fabian Gülzau

2. The crisis as an opportunity for change? High-skilled immigration policies across Europe Lucie Cerna

3. Negotiating varieties of capitalism? Crisis and change in contemporary British and German labour migration policies Regine Paul

4. Migration policy reforms in the context of economic and political crises: the case of Belgium Sonia Gsir, Jean-Michel Lafleur and Mikolaj Stanek

5. Citizenship in the shadow of the Euro crisis: explaining changing patterns in naturalisation among intra-EU migrants John Graeber

6. Mobilities in the crisis and post-crisis times: migration strategies of Poles on the EU labour market Anna Janicka and Paweł Kaczmarczyk

7. The economic crisis as a driver of cross-border labour mobility? A multi-method perspective on the case of the Central European Region Laura Wiesböck, Roland Verwiebe, Christoph Reinprecht and Raimund Haindorfer

Biography

Christof Roos is an Assistant Professor in European and Global Governance at University of Flensburg. His work focuses on EU integration in Justice and Home Affairs, EU migration and asylum policy, and freedom of movement.

Natascha Zaun is an Assistant Professor in Migration Studies at the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research focuses on EU asylum and immigration policy as well as global refugee and visas policy.