Labour's Immigration Policy The Making of the Migration State
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 c
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The Making of the Migration State
Labour’s Immigration Policy
Erica Consterdine
Labour’s Immigration Policy The Making of the Migration State
Erica Consterdine Department of Politics and Sussex Centre for Migration Research University of Sussex Brighton, United Kingdom
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Preface
A decade ago, one of my former lecturers told me that if you really want to understand any given society, you should take a look at their immigration system. In fact, one of the protagonists to this unprecedented period of policymaking, Tony Blair, said something similar and that is indeed where we start the book. It was this realisation—that this specific policy arena can represent or mirror a society—that sowed the seeds of inspiration that led to this book. I believe such sentiments are truer today than when I first heard them 10 years ago. Hardly a day goes by without immigration featuring in the headlines. The issue dominates debate across the political spectrum and has been a top voting issue amongst the British public for over a decade. It is one of the most divisive, contested and important issues of our time. The referendum in Britain on membership of the EU in June 2016 sent shockwaves across the political establishment and was undoubtedly shaped, possibly even determined, by the politics of immigration. Immigration has shifted from the periphe
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