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Employers, Trade Unions, Varieties of Capitalism, and Labour Migration Policies

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Labour Migration in Europe

Part of the book series: Migration, Minorities and Citizenship ((MMC))

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Over the past 15 years, European governments have re-discovered labour migration. The restrictive approaches that dominated the period between the mid-1970s and the mid-1990s have given way to more liberal policy design regarding “desirable” labour migrants, though not other migration categories, such as humanitarian ones. Current debates in political science migration studies explore a number of agents active in migration policy-making, including “organised interest groups, courts, ethnic groups, trade unions, law and order bureaucracies, police and security agencies, local actors and street-level bureaucrats and private actors” (Lahav and Guiraudon, 2006, p. 207).

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Menz, G. (2010). Employers, Trade Unions, Varieties of Capitalism, and Labour Migration Policies. In: Menz, G., Caviedes, A. (eds) Labour Migration in Europe. Migration, Minorities and Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230292536_2

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