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oapen-20.500.12657-373652020-04-24T00:57:37Z Towards a Systemic Theory of Irregular Migration Echeverría, Gabriel Migration irregular migration migration and integration modern state and society diversity open access social systems theory migration control citizenship Luhmann migration policy Migration, immigration & emigration bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFN Migration, immigration & emigration 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. 2020-04-23T14:58:30Z 2020-04-23T14:58:30Z 2020 book ID_20200423_9 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/37365 eng IMISCOE Research Series application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 978-3-030-40903-6.pdf https://www.springer.com/9783030409036 Springer Nature Springer 10.1007/978-3-030-40903-6 10.1007/978-3-030-40903-6 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 Springer 246 Cham open access
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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.
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