We are pleased to inform you that a new special issue on Social Policies as a Tool of Migration Control, edited by Ilker Ataç and Sieglinde Rosenberger and published in the Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, is now available online. It contributes to academic debates on the intersection of migration control and social policies by providing new empirical analyses on policies and policy making towards irregular migrants and rejected asylum seekers in European countries.
Contents:
- Social Policies as a Tool of Migration Control by Ilker Ataç & Sieglinde Rosenberger
- Navigating the Representative-Politics–Liberal-Rights Dilemma: Social Policy Designs for Nonremoved Migrants by Sieglinde Rosenberger
- Municipal Activism on Irregular Migrants: The Framing of Inclusive Approaches at the Local Level by Sarah Spencer & Nicola Delvino
- Deserving Shelter: Conditional Access to Accommodation for Rejected Asylum Seekers in Austria, the Netherlands, and Sweden by Ilker Ataç
- Health Care Versus Border Care: Justification and Hypocrisy in the Multilevel Negotiation of Irregular Migrants’ Access to Fundamental Rights and Services by Reinhard Schweitzer
- Stuck in Mobility? Interrupted Journeys of Migrants With Precarious Legal Status in Europe by Anna Wyss
- Regularization of Irregular Migrants and Social Policies: Comparative Perspectives by Albert Kraler
