Cookies?
Library Header Image
LSE Research Online LSE Library Services

Comparing immigration policies: an overview from the IMPALA database

Beine, Michel, Boucher, Anna, Burgoon, Brian, Crock, Mary, Gest, Justin, Hiscox, Michael, McGovern, Patrick ORCID: 0000-0003-3984-2080, Rapoport, Hillel, Schaper, Joep and Thielemann, Eiko R. ORCID: 0009-0003-0563-9436 (2016) Comparing immigration policies: an overview from the IMPALA database. International Migration Review, 50 (4). pp. 827-863. ISSN 0197-9183

Full text not available from this repository.

Identification Number: 10.1111/imre.12169

Abstract

This paper introduces a method and preliminary findings from a database that systematically measures the character and stringency of immigration policies. Based on the selection of that data for nine countries between 1999 and 2008, we challenge the idea that any one country is systematically the most or least restrictive toward admissions. The data also reveal trends toward more complex and, often, more restrictive regulation since the 1990s, as well as differential treatment of groups, such as lower requirements for highly skilled than low-skilled labor migrants. These patterns illustrate the IMPALA data and methods but are also of intrinsic importance to understanding immigration regulation.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(IS...
Additional Information: © 2015 Center for Migration Studies of New York.
Divisions: Government
Sociology
Subjects: J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration
K Law > KZ Law of Nations
Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > ZA Information resources > ZA4450 Databases
Date Deposited: 16 Jun 2015 11:14
Last Modified: 28 Nov 2024 17:42
Funders: •University of Amsterdam's Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, •University of Sydney's School of Social and Political Science and Faculty of Law, •Harvard Weatherhead Institute of International Affairs, •Ian Potter Foundation, •Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship, •Australian Research Council, •British Academy, •European Union Framework 7 Program PEGGED, •London School of Economics and Political Science including STICERD, •Barrow Cadbury Trust, •Madrid Centro Internacional de Estudios Económicos y Sociales, •University of Luxembourg and National Research Fundof Luxembourg
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/62322

Actions (login required)

View Item View Item