Migration Governance Across Regions
Migration policies are rarely effective. Examples of unintended and undesirable outcomes abound. In Latin America, very little is known about the impact and long-term sustainability of state policies toward emigrants. Following a worldwide trend, Ecuador, Uruguay, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil have developed new institutions and discourses to strengthen links; assist, protect, and enfranchise migrants; and capture their resources. As an adaptation of governmental techniques to global realities, these policies redefine the contours of polities, nations, and citizenship, giving place to a new form of transnational governance.
Building on field research done in these five countries and two receiving countries in the last decade, Ana Margheritis explains the timing, motivations, characteristics, and implications of emigration policies implemented by each country and discusses the emergence of a distinctive regional consensus around a postneoliberal approach to national development and citizenship construction. Margheritis argues that these outreach efforts resemble courting practices. Courting is a deliberate expression of the ambivalent, still incipient, and open-ended relationship between states and diasporas that is not exempt from conflict, detours, and setbacks. For various reasons, statediaspora relations are not unfolding into stable and fruitful partnerships yet. Thus, she makes diaspora engagement problematic and investigates to what extent courting might become engagement in each case.
Studying emigration policies of five Latin American countries and migrant responses in Southern Europe sheds light on the political dynamics and governance mechanisms that transnational migration is generating across regions. It illuminates possible venues for managing multiple engagements of migrants with societies at both ends of their migration journeys and unveils the opportunities for states and nonstate actors to cooperatively manage migration flows.
Ana Margheritis is Reader in International Relations at the University of Southampton. Her areas of expertise include transnational migration, comparative regional integration, foreign policy, inter-American relations, and Latin American political economy.
Conceptualising Comparative Politics:
Polities, Peoples, and Markets
Edited by Anthony Spanakos
(Montclair State University)
and
Francisco Panizza
(London School of Economics)
Conceptualising Comparative Politics seeks to bring a distinctive approach to comparative politics by rediscovering the disciplines rich conceptual tradition and interdisciplinary foundations. It aims to fill out the conceptual framework on which the rest of the subfield draws but to which books only sporadically contribute and to complement theoretical and conceptual analysis by applying it to deeply explored case studies. The series publishes books that make serious inquiry into fundamental concepts in comparative politics (crisis, legitimacy, credibility, representation, institutions, civil society, reconciliation) through theoretically engaging and empirically deep analysis.
1. | Moments of Truth |
The Politics of Financial Crises in Comparative Perspective |
Edited by Francisco Panizza and George Philip
|
2. | From Religious Empires to Secular States |
State Secularization in Turkey, Iran and Russia |
Birol Bakan
|
3. | The Politics of Governance |
Actors and Articulations in Africa and Beyond |
Lucy Koechlin and Till Frster
|
4. | Conceptualizing Comparative Politics |
Edited by Anthony Petros Spanakos and Francisco Panizza
|
5. | Migration Governance Across Regions |
StateDiaspora Relations in the Latin AmericanSouthern Europe Corridor |
Ana Margheritis |
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Title: Migration governance across regions : state-diaspora relations
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Conceptualising comparative politics: polities, peoples, and
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Government policy. | TransnationalismPolitical aspectsLatin
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Aristotles study of the various polities of his time and his (or his schools) collection of the various actual constitutions represent some of the earliest research in comparative politics. Despite thorough analysis of the politics in the various polities, he gave little attention to the politics between them. This might be particularly odd as he was as Stagirite, came to study in, and later famously fled from, Athens. That is, despite his seminal work on citizenship and polities, he did not seem to include his own experiences as a migrantone who operated in poleis in which he was not and would not be a citizennor did he give much consideration to the idea that his native Stagira might have interest in, or obligations to, him while in Athens. While some of his contemporaries were more concerned with what might later be considered international relations, traditionally comparative politics scholarship has not engaged enough with international relations literature and the studies of migration have themselves been strangers to the two sub-disciplines of political science.
If that characterization is fair, Ana Margheritiss Migration Governance Across Regions presents a powerful argument that the lines between the two subfields need be blurred, particularly in the case of migrants who literally live and must be studied both in-between and squarely in the mainstream of both comparative politics and international relations. This is perhaps the biggest conceptual contribution of the present volume: to make the claim and provide evidence for a study that incorporates key questions of citizenship, governance, the role of the polity (above and beneath the state), and the nation which are fundamental for both comparative politics and international relations, concepts that are at the heart of the politics of migration.