Albert Kraler
Biographic Data
| ID | 325833 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Albert Kraler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Albert |
| FAMILY NAME | Kraler |
| SIGNATURE | KRALER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität für Weiterbildung Krems |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3172-9542 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 159 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Migration policies addressing irregularity: A typology of responses
In the political as well as the academic debate, it often appears as if regularisation or return are the only instruments that states use to address the presence of irregular migrants. Yet in reality, states possess a repertoire of responses to irregularity and select from this repertoire in a situation- and group-specific manner. This article systematically maps out the range of policy responses to the presence of irregular migrants on state ter…
Active Refugee Admission Policies: Towards Conceptual Clarity
A shipwreck in October 2013 off the island of Lampedusa, which caused the death of 366 migrants, pushed the question of legal pathways to admission for persons in need of international protection to the foreground in Europe. Different concepts broadly describe the same policy concept: alternative legal channels for people in need of protection outside the traditional asylum system and in addition to traditional UNHCR-led resettlement. Such pathwa…
Arenas of conflict? How local integration infrastructures and multi-level dynamics shape the space for conflict and cooperation at the local level in Austria
Trust in Transit: External Migration Control and Migrants’ Perceptions of Humanitarian Borderwork in the Sahel
The Sahel region has become a focal point for externalisation policies seeking to prevent the onward travel of migrants bound for North Africa and Europe. In this context, humanitarian actors are increasingly called upon to implement migration control policies or to address migrants’ vulnerabilities during journeys characterised by ‘extended temporariness’. This paper builds upon the concepts of the humanitarian border and institutional trust to …
The EU and protracted displacement: Providing Solutions or Creating Obstacles
In this paper, we explore how the European Union (EU) legal and policy framework relates to protracted displacement. To this end, we examine the existing legal, policy and institutional framework both in the EU and globally, including the Common European Asylum System (CEAS), the 2015 ‘European Agenda on Migration’, and the New Pact on Migration and Asylum. Analytically, we employ Norbert Elias’ concept of ‘figurations’ as a conceptual lens to de…
Regularization of Irregular Migrants and Social Policies: Comparative Perspectives
This paper examines the social policy implications of the regularization of irregular immigrants. As an act of legal integration regularization arguably is about irregular migrants' inclusion into mainstream social and legal structures and, as a corollary, has important implications for migrants' access to social rights. Based on a recent comparative study of regularizations and their impact in seven EU Member-States, the study finds that access …
Gender, Generations and the Family in International Migration
This volume investigates the different types of political engagement among ethnic minority youth in contemporary Norwegian society.The point of departure is that critical events on both national and international levels have been decisive for mobilisation of political engagement.The authors make a connection among well-known international events such as the Rushdie affair, the Muhammad caricature drawings and the terror attacks of 22 July 2011 to…
Employment and Migrant Deservingness
Working for Legality: Employment and Migrant Regularization in Europe
Recent programs to regularize undocumented migrants suggest the increasing role of employment as a requirement for foreigners to legally reside in Europe. Taking as illustrations the cases of Spain, France, Austria, Belgium and Germany, this article examines how regularization policies frame work. Employment provisions follow a civic‐performance frame that breaks with the criterion of vulnerability. While secure forms of employment paying standar…
Gender, Generations and the Family in International Migration
Family-related migration is moving to the centre of political debates on migration, integration and multiculturalism in Europe. It is also more and more leading to lively academic interest in the family dimensions of international migration. At the same time, strands of research on family migrations and migrant families remain separate from - and sometimes ignorant of - each other. This volume seeks to bridge the disciplinary divides. Fifteen cha…
Measuring Irregular Migration and Population Flows - What Available Data Can Tell: Measuring irregular migration and population flows
Wild assumptions, estimates and number games are made in regard to irregular migration flows. While the numbers cited are, in fact, often dated and of unclear origin, reports use such numbers to suggest a rise in irregular migration; they also usually assume that irregular entry and, to some extent, overstaying are the only significant pathways into irregularity. To properly account for irregular migration flows, however, both in- and outflows, a…
Gender, civic stratification and the right to family life: Problematising immigrants' integration in the EU
Across Europe, family-related migration has moved to the centre of public debates about migration and integration and associated debates about multiculturalism and diversity. In these debates the m
Doing family: Responses to the constructions of ‘the migrant family’ across Europe
This paper draws on how constructions of ‘the migrant family’ in political discourse influence migrants' and their families' lives. In specific national contexts, ‘the migrant family’ is determined according to the national and European debates and expressed by their respective rules and regulations. By ‘doing family’, migrants and their families develop strategies in order to fit these requirements of living a certain family life. Fulfilling spe…
The Political Accommodation of Immigrant Religious Practices: The Case of Special Admission Rules for Ministers of Religion
This paper discusses special admission rules for ministers of religion, focusing on admission policies for Muslim ministers of religion. The paper situates admission policies in the wider context of the political accommodation of Islam in Western Europe and analyses to what extent such policies are linked to other dimensions of the political accommodation of religion in general, and Islam in particular. It asks why admission rules have recently d…
Migration Theoretisieren
The article gives a review and critical discussion of contemporary theories of migration. It investigates the political and social reasons for theorizing migration, the different contexts, which were important for the emerging approaches. Although this branch of research is so strongly influenced, the authors observe certain progress in migration theories
Doing family: Responses to the constructions of ‘the migrant family’ across Europe
This paper draws on how constructions of ‘the migrant family’ in political discourse influence migrants' and their families' lives. In specific national contexts, ‘the migrant family’ is determined according to the national and European debates and expressed by their respective rules and regulations. By ‘doing family’, migrants and their families develop strategies in order to fit these requirements of living a certain family life. Fulfilling spe…
Working for Legality: Employment and Migrant Regularization in Europe
Recent programs to regularize undocumented migrants suggest the increasing role of employment as a requirement for foreigners to legally reside in Europe. Taking as illustrations the cases of Spain, France, Austria, Belgium and Germany, this article examines how regularization policies frame work. Employment provisions follow a civic‐performance frame that breaks with the criterion of vulnerability. While secure forms of employment paying standar…
Employment and Migrant Deservingness
Gender, civic stratification and the right to family life: Problematising immigrants' integration in the EU
Across Europe, family-related migration has moved to the centre of public debates about migration and integration and associated debates about multiculturalism and diversity. In these debates the m
Regularization of Irregular Migrants and Social Policies: Comparative Perspectives
This paper examines the social policy implications of the regularization of irregular immigrants. As an act of legal integration regularization arguably is about irregular migrants' inclusion into mainstream social and legal structures and, as a corollary, has important implications for migrants' access to social rights. Based on a recent comparative study of regularizations and their impact in seven EU Member-States, the study finds that access …
Measuring Irregular Migration and Population Flows - What Available Data Can Tell: Measuring irregular migration and population flows
Wild assumptions, estimates and number games are made in regard to irregular migration flows. While the numbers cited are, in fact, often dated and of unclear origin, reports use such numbers to suggest a rise in irregular migration; they also usually assume that irregular entry and, to some extent, overstaying are the only significant pathways into irregularity. To properly account for irregular migration flows, however, both in- and outflows, a…
The EU and protracted displacement: Providing Solutions or Creating Obstacles
In this paper, we explore how the European Union (EU) legal and policy framework relates to protracted displacement. To this end, we examine the existing legal, policy and institutional framework both in the EU and globally, including the Common European Asylum System (CEAS), the 2015 ‘European Agenda on Migration’, and the New Pact on Migration and Asylum. Analytically, we employ Norbert Elias’ concept of ‘figurations’ as a conceptual lens to de…
The Political Accommodation of Immigrant Religious Practices: The Case of Special Admission Rules for Ministers of Religion
This paper discusses special admission rules for ministers of religion, focusing on admission policies for Muslim ministers of religion. The paper situates admission policies in the wider context of the political accommodation of Islam in Western Europe and analyses to what extent such policies are linked to other dimensions of the political accommodation of religion in general, and Islam in particular. It asks why admission rules have recently d…
Arenas of conflict? How local integration infrastructures and multi-level dynamics shape the space for conflict and cooperation at the local level in Austria
Trust in Transit: External Migration Control and Migrants’ Perceptions of Humanitarian Borderwork in the Sahel
The Sahel region has become a focal point for externalisation policies seeking to prevent the onward travel of migrants bound for North Africa and Europe. In this context, humanitarian actors are increasingly called upon to implement migration control policies or to address migrants’ vulnerabilities during journeys characterised by ‘extended temporariness’. This paper builds upon the concepts of the humanitarian border and institutional trust to …
Migration Theoretisieren
The article gives a review and critical discussion of contemporary theories of migration. It investigates the political and social reasons for theorizing migration, the different contexts, which were important for the emerging approaches. Although this branch of research is so strongly influenced, the authors observe certain progress in migration theories
The Political Accommodation of Immigrant Religious Practices: The Case of Special Admission Rules for Ministers of Religion
This paper discusses special admission rules for ministers of religion, focusing on admission policies for Muslim ministers of religion. The paper situates admission policies in the wider context of the political accommodation of Islam in Western Europe and analyses to what extent such policies are linked to other dimensions of the political accommodation of religion in general, and Islam in particular. It asks why admission rules have recently d…
Doing family: Responses to the constructions of ‘the migrant family’ across Europe
This paper draws on how constructions of ‘the migrant family’ in political discourse influence migrants' and their families' lives. In specific national contexts, ‘the migrant family’ is determined according to the national and European debates and expressed by their respective rules and regulations. By ‘doing family’, migrants and their families develop strategies in order to fit these requirements of living a certain family life. Fulfilling spe…
Gender, civic stratification and the right to family life: Problematising immigrants' integration in the EU
Across Europe, family-related migration has moved to the centre of public debates about migration and integration and associated debates about multiculturalism and diversity. In these debates the m
Gender, Generations and the Family in International Migration
Family-related migration is moving to the centre of political debates on migration, integration and multiculturalism in Europe. It is also more and more leading to lively academic interest in the family dimensions of international migration. At the same time, strands of research on family migrations and migrant families remain separate from - and sometimes ignorant of - each other. This volume seeks to bridge the disciplinary divides. Fifteen cha…
Measuring Irregular Migration and Population Flows - What Available Data Can Tell: Measuring irregular migration and population flows
Wild assumptions, estimates and number games are made in regard to irregular migration flows. While the numbers cited are, in fact, often dated and of unclear origin, reports use such numbers to suggest a rise in irregular migration; they also usually assume that irregular entry and, to some extent, overstaying are the only significant pathways into irregularity. To properly account for irregular migration flows, however, both in- and outflows, a…
Gender, Generations and the Family in International Migration
This volume investigates the different types of political engagement among ethnic minority youth in contemporary Norwegian society.The point of departure is that critical events on both national and international levels have been decisive for mobilisation of political engagement.The authors make a connection among well-known international events such as the Rushdie affair, the Muhammad caricature drawings and the terror attacks of 22 July 2011 to…
Employment and Migrant Deservingness
Working for Legality: Employment and Migrant Regularization in Europe
Recent programs to regularize undocumented migrants suggest the increasing role of employment as a requirement for foreigners to legally reside in Europe. Taking as illustrations the cases of Spain, France, Austria, Belgium and Germany, this article examines how regularization policies frame work. Employment provisions follow a civic‐performance frame that breaks with the criterion of vulnerability. While secure forms of employment paying standar…
Regularization of Irregular Migrants and Social Policies: Comparative Perspectives
This paper examines the social policy implications of the regularization of irregular immigrants. As an act of legal integration regularization arguably is about irregular migrants' inclusion into mainstream social and legal structures and, as a corollary, has important implications for migrants' access to social rights. Based on a recent comparative study of regularizations and their impact in seven EU Member-States, the study finds that access …
The EU and protracted displacement: Providing Solutions or Creating Obstacles
In this paper, we explore how the European Union (EU) legal and policy framework relates to protracted displacement. To this end, we examine the existing legal, policy and institutional framework both in the EU and globally, including the Common European Asylum System (CEAS), the 2015 ‘European Agenda on Migration’, and the New Pact on Migration and Asylum. Analytically, we employ Norbert Elias’ concept of ‘figurations’ as a conceptual lens to de…
Trust in Transit: External Migration Control and Migrants’ Perceptions of Humanitarian Borderwork in the Sahel
The Sahel region has become a focal point for externalisation policies seeking to prevent the onward travel of migrants bound for North Africa and Europe. In this context, humanitarian actors are increasingly called upon to implement migration control policies or to address migrants’ vulnerabilities during journeys characterised by ‘extended temporariness’. This paper builds upon the concepts of the humanitarian border and institutional trust to …
Active Refugee Admission Policies: Towards Conceptual Clarity
A shipwreck in October 2013 off the island of Lampedusa, which caused the death of 366 migrants, pushed the question of legal pathways to admission for persons in need of international protection to the foreground in Europe. Different concepts broadly describe the same policy concept: alternative legal channels for people in need of protection outside the traditional asylum system and in addition to traditional UNHCR-led resettlement. Such pathwa…
Arenas of conflict? How local integration infrastructures and multi-level dynamics shape the space for conflict and cooperation at the local level in Austria
Migration policies addressing irregularity: A typology of responses
In the political as well as the academic debate, it often appears as if regularisation or return are the only instruments that states use to address the presence of irregular migrants. Yet in reality, states possess a repertoire of responses to irregularity and select from this repertoire in a situation- and group-specific manner. This article systematically maps out the range of policy responses to the presence of irregular migrants on state ter…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (8 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Immigration (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)