TY - JOUR
T1 - Comparing Immigration Policies
T2 - An Overview from the IMPALA Database
AU - Beine, Michel
AU - Boucher, Anna
AU - Burgoon, Brian
AU - Crock, Mary
AU - Gest, Justin
AU - Hiscox, Michael
AU - McGovern, Patrick
AU - Rapoport, Hillel
AU - Schaper, Joep
AU - Thielemann, Eiko
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 by the Center for Migration Studies of New York. All rights reserved.
PY - 2016/12/1
Y1 - 2016/12/1
N2 - This paper introduces a method and preliminary findings from a database that systematically measures the character and stringency of immigration policies. Based on the selection of that data for nine countries between 1999 and 2008, we challenge the idea that any one country is systematically the most or least restrictive toward admissions. The data also reveal trends toward more complex and, often, more restrictive regulation since the 1990s, as well as differential treatment of groups, such as lower requirements for highly skilled than low-skilled labor migrants. These patterns illustrate the IMPALA data and methods but are also of intrinsic importance to understanding immigration regulation.
AB - This paper introduces a method and preliminary findings from a database that systematically measures the character and stringency of immigration policies. Based on the selection of that data for nine countries between 1999 and 2008, we challenge the idea that any one country is systematically the most or least restrictive toward admissions. The data also reveal trends toward more complex and, often, more restrictive regulation since the 1990s, as well as differential treatment of groups, such as lower requirements for highly skilled than low-skilled labor migrants. These patterns illustrate the IMPALA data and methods but are also of intrinsic importance to understanding immigration regulation.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84929936645&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/imre.12169
DO - 10.1111/imre.12169
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AN - SCOPUS:84929936645
SN - 0197-9183
VL - 50
SP - 827
EP - 863
JO - International Migration Review
JF - International Migration Review
IS - 4
ER -
