The causes of convergence in Western immigration control

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11426421
AutoresEytan Meyers (autor de correspondencia)
Año2002
Volumen28
Número1
Páginas123-141
Fecha de publicación2002-01-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaReview of International Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0260-2105 • E-ISSN: 1469-9044
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0260210502001237
OpenAlexW1996763971
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas22

In recent years, some scholars have argued that there has been a convergence of the immigration control policies of the industrial democracies. This article demonstrates that, in fact, there has been an extraordinary similarity among the immigration control policies of the major receiving countries for over a century. It examines six alternative explanations for these similarities in immigration control policies: (1) a global hegemon that forces or persuades various countries to act in unison; (2) global or regional migration regimes and organizations; (3) interdependence between the immigration control policies of various countries; (4) emulation of immigration control policies of one country by other countries; (5) the world system approach; and (6) interdependence between the socioeconomic and foreign policy factors that lead to immigration control policies. The article argues that it is the last factor that explains most of the similarity among the immigration control policies. It demonstrates how global economic cycles, shared migratory pressures, alliances that produce common foreign policy considerations, wars that receiving countries are involved in and global ideological cycles produce the convergence of immigration control policies in various receiving countries

Control (management · Convergence (economics · Development economics · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Immigration · Immigration policy · Political economy · Political science · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · World Systems and Global Transformations