The il/liberal paradox: conceptualising immigration policy trade-offs across the democracy/autocracy divide.
This paper compares immigration reforms across democratic and autocratic states. Mobilising two large-scale datasets, it first challenges the prevailing notion that political regime types inherently dictate immigration policy outputs. The analysis shows that although immigration is central to politi...
| Published in: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 680 - 702 |
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Feb2024
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=175638217&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 175638217 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 1369183X 56F jtl: Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies issn: 1369183X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Feb2024 vid: 50 iid: 3 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 175638217 10.1080/1369183X.2023.2269784 ppf: 680 ppct: 22 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 2.1MB tig: atl: The il/liberal paradox: conceptualising immigration policy trade-offs across the democracy/autocracy divide. aug: au: Natter, Katharina affil: Institute of Political Science, University of Leiden, Leiden, Netherlands su: Immigration policy Democracy Dictatorship Economic development National security sug: subj: Immigration policy Democracy Dictatorship Economic development National security keyword: autocracy democracy Global South migration state ab: This paper compares immigration reforms across democratic and autocratic states. Mobilising two large-scale datasets, it first challenges the prevailing notion that political regime types inherently dictate immigration policy outputs. The analysis shows that although immigration is central to political debates worldwide, reforms are not that frequent and, when enacted, their restrictiveness does not consistently differ by regime type. Instead, restrictions focus on border controls and openings on entry and integration policies regardless of the political regime in place. The paper then mobilises case studies from around the globe to delve into the policy dynamics underpinning immigration reforms across regimes. It shows that while all migration states grapple with the multifaceted challenges that immigration raises, autocratic politics offers a broader toolkit to resolve the trade-offs between cultural, rights-based, economic and security issues. This creates unexpected opportunities for open immigration reforms under autocratic politics, a dynamic I call the 'illiberal paradox' as a counterpart to the 'liberal paradox' observed under democratic politics. To advance theory-building across the democracy/autocracy divide, the paper concludes by arguing that the liberal and illiberal paradox concepts are not exclusive to democratic or autocratic regimes, respectively, but are valuable analytical tools to understand immigration politics across the political regime spectrum. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2024 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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