Title: The Regularisation of Unauthorized Migrants: Literature Survey and Country Case Studies
Abstract: Regularisation programmes have emerged in the past 25 years or so as one of the mechanisms States use to account for and manage the undocumented immigrant population in their countries, and are usually implemented in concert with the internal and external strengthening of migration controls. This paper attempts to answer the questions arising from such programmes through a survey of nine regularisation programmes in the United States and the European Union. The first part of the survey offers a broad introduction to, overview and analysis of regularisation programmes through a review of available literature on the topic. The second part of the survey is an in-depth analysis of regularisation programmes in nine countries, and provides for each country a brief overview of their current migration policy, legal channels of immigration into the country, and the undocumented population in relation to the country's demographic profile. In order to provide a complete picture of each programme, throughout the survey an attempt has been made to draw on government, non-governmental and academic sources. Author Amanda Levinson is a researcher in the area of international migration. In 2000 she co-founded VOZ, an immigrant workers' rights organization in Portland, Oregon, USA. She has worked most recently for the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. and the International Organization for Migration in Santiago, Chile. She holds a Master of Public Affairs from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin. Amanda is a Research Assistant at the Centre on Migration Policy and Society, Oxford University She is available to answer questions and comments about this report at amandalevinson@ hotmail.com. Acknowledgements The author wishes to thank those who provided key information for this report, including Bridget Anderson, Marcel Ernst, Ampara Gonzalez Ferrer, Elspeth Guild, Michael Jandl, Emilio Reyneri, Daniel Senovilla Hernandez, Maria Jose Torres and Julie Weise. Deepest appreciation also goes to those scholars who reviewed the country case studies: Martin Baldwin-Edwards, Charlotte Fiala, Maia Jachimowicz, Jorge Malheiros, Deborah Meyers and Sarah Spencer.
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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