Labour's Immigration Policy The Making of the Migration State /

• Main Author: Consterdine, Erica (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Political science.; Public policy.; Great Britain-Politics and government.; Emigration and immigration.; Popular Science in Political Science and International Relations.; Public Policy.; British Politics.; Migration.

This book explains how and why the New Labour governments transformed Britain's immigration system from a highly restrictive regime to one of the most expansive in Europe, otherwise known as the Managed Migration policy. It offers the first in-depth and candid account of this period of dramatic...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction - the puzzle of managed migration
• Chapter 2: A framework for understanding immigration policy
• Chapter 3: Making the Migration State: the history of Britain's immigration policy
• Chapter 4: In whose interest? Organised interests, policy networks & collective action
• Chapter 5: Do parties matter? Party ideology and party competition
• Chapter 6: Bringing the state back in: institutional change and the administrative context
• Chapter 7: An unintended consequence
• Chapter 8: Beyond New Labour.