The Politics of Migration Policies: Towards an empirically grounded, comparative political theory of migration politics.
Workshop organised in the context of the research programme “Action Publique Ailleurs” in partnership with Agence Française de Développement (AFD).
The purpose of the workshop is to use comparisons across time and across countries in order to reflect on migration theories from a comparative empirical perspective. It investigates the impact of political variables such as regime change, political institutions, or policy practices on migration politics.
Our central question is: How do political variables shape the management of immigration and emigration?
Monday 17 December 2018
Immigration patterns
9h-10h: Welcome & Keynote
Hélène Thiollet, Sciences Po-CERI/CNRS et Katharina Natter, University of Amsterdam - Welcome and workshop roadmap
James Hollifield, Southern Methodist University - Keynote: The Emerging Migration State
10h00-10h30: Coffee break
10h30-12h30: Session 1 - The control gap debate revisited: the politics of immigration policymaking
Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas, CIDOB / UPF Barcelona - Beyond methodological Western-centrism: the control gap debate reconsidered from a global perspective
David FitzGerald, University of California San Diego - International Norms: When do they Shape Immigration Policies in the Americas?
Feline Freier, Universidad del Pacífico - The politics behind Latin America’s ‘generosity’ towards migrants
Virginie Guiraudon, CNRS CEE Sciences Po - European liberal democracies and the migration policy mix
Discussant: Catherine Wihtol de Wenden, Sciences Po-CERI/CNRS
12h30-13h30: Lunch
13h30-15h30: Session 2 - The control/implementation gap: de jure and de facto immigration and refugee policies
Erin Aeran Chung, Johns Hopkins University - The Side Doors of Immigration: Immigration Policy without Immigrants in East Asia
Oliver Bakewell, University of Manchester - The Locus of Migration Policy: reflections from two African case studies
Darshan Vigneswaran, University of Amsterdam - The Complex Character of Movement Control Regimes: How Non-Immigration Policies Determine Immigration Policy Outcomes
Daniel Naujoks, Columbia University - Immigration and Refugee Governance in India
Discussant: Hein de Haas, University of Amsterdam
15h30-16h: Coffee break
16h-17h30: Session 3 - Illiberal(ising) immigration and asylum politics: structures and policy changes
Céline Cantat, Central European University - The politics of post-socialist transition and migration in Hungary
Hélène Thiollet, Sciences Po-CERI/CNRS - Migrants, Markets and Monarchs. An anatomy of change in Saudi Arabia (1991-2018)
Gerasimos Tsourapas, University of Birmingham - The Refugee Rentier State in the Middle East
Discussant: Hélène le Bail, Sciences Po - CERI / CNRS
Tuesday 18 December 2018
Hybrid and emigration patterns
9h-10h30: Session 4 - Changing regimes, hybrid migration patterns: the multilayer politics of immigration and emigration policies
Els van Dongen, Nanyang Technological University - Four Key Points from Chinese Migration Policies
Amin Moghadam, Princeton University - Politics of Citizenship and Migration in a post-revolutionary Iran
Katharina Natter, University of Amsterdam - Tunisian migration politics throughout the revolution: The democratization-migrants’ rights nexus revisited
Discussant : Laurence Louer Sciences Po-CERI
10h30-11h: Coffee break
11h-12h30: Session 5 - The drivers and actors of emigration politics
Gaim Kibreab, London South Bank University - The Politics of Emigration in Eritrea
Fiona Adamson, SOAS University of London - Turkey’s ‘Diaspora Engagement’ Policies: Transnational Citizenship or ‘Remote Control’ Authoritarianism?
Stefan Rother, University of Freiburg - The ‘gold standard’ for labour export? The role of civil society in shaping Philippine migration policies
Discussant: Jim Hollifield, Southern Methodist University
12h30-13h30: Concluding discussion and publication prospects
Hein de Haas, University of Amsterdam
Hélène Thiollet Sciences Po-CERI / CNRS
Katharina Natter, University of Amsterdam
Workshop Program - The Politics of Migration Policies
Responsables scientifiques: Hélène Thiollet et Katharina Natter