The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of Migration in Europe
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The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of Migration in Europe A. Weinar, S. Bonjour and L. Zhyznomirska (eds). Routledge, London, 2019, 466 pp, ISBN: 978-1-138-20118-7 Christof Roos1
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The Routledge Handbook on the Politics of Migration in Europe, edited by Agnieszka Weinar, Saskia Bonjour, and Lyubov Zhyznomirska, is an impressive achievement. With 35 chapters 466 pages, this substantial volume offers an up-todate and comprehensive overview of migration politics research on Europe. And it comes just at the right time, as scholarship in this field expands in response to the extreme salience that immigration and asylum have recently gained in public discourse and politics. Accessible and well structured, the Handbook will be welcomed by students and scholars alike as a tool to help them navigate the ever-growing field of migration politics in Europe with its numerous specialized topics. Structured into eight sections, the volume offers a state-of-the-art discussion among eminent senior and junior scholars in their respective research areas. In addition to the classical topics dealing with the regulation of particular migrant types, such as labour migration, asylum and international protection, irregular migration, and integration, there is a section on inter-state cooperation concerning migration policy in EU Europe and beyond as well as two comprehensive sections on the general governance and the distinct institutions that regulate foreigners’ entry into and residency in Europe. A rather short section on data and methods completes the Handbook. The chapters in the governance and institution sections cover almost all aspects of state regulation of migration, with topics ranging from questions concerning policy implementation and multi-level research to the role of courts, EU institutions, and political parties. The chapters on types of migration address such core questions as the systemic failure of EU and European asylum policy and the ongoing public and scholarly debate on migrants’ contributions to the welfare state, in addition to presenting emerging research topics such as the developmental impact of “voluntary” returning migrants or the intricacies of negotiating readmission * Christof Roos christof.roos@uni‑flensburg.de 1
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agreements with countries of origin. While a chapter on freedom of movement in the EU—probably the most impactful EU labour migration policy—is unfortunately missing, the Handbook’s 35 chapters do present the great diversity of migration policy research on Europe and develop the contours of a research agenda. Seven of the eight sections conclude with a comment in which the findings of the contributions are discussed and an Eastern European perspective is added to a debate dominated by researchers and research findings from Western Europe. The editors use this comment section to counterbalance the Western European research bias,
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