Focusing on the dynamics of irregular immigration in Southern EU Member States, this book
analyses how the phenomenon is managed at national and local levels in different legal and …

Despite many efforts to combat irregular immigration, there is a widespread perception of a
failure of public policies in this field. But because unauthorised immigrants are officially …

Scholarship has sought to develop theoretical frameworks to set order on the rather
muddled web of actors, interactions and tensions involved in asylum and immigration …

Italy has been the focus of the international community's attention for two reasons; firstly, due
to the number of irregular migrants who died in the Mediterranean Sea trying to reach Italy …

This article investigates the interconnections between migration to Europe for asylum and
the multiple 'crises' of the border regime that have occurred in recent decades. Drawing on …

The conventional wisdom, backed by legitimacy research, is that most people obey most of
the laws, most of the time. This turns out to not be the case in a study of state and local …

In 2018, more than eleven million undocumented immigrants lived in the United States. Not
since slavery had so many US residents held so few political rights. Many strove tirelessly to …

The article argues that the governance of immigration, especially at local level, can be
considered a “battleground” involving diverse actors. Beyond the idea of a “negotiated …

In the last decades, the European Union's migration policy has been increasingly criticized
for its imbalance towards border control and the fight against what policymakers define as …

A burgeoning line of research examines nonprofit advocacy, yet few have examined how
nonprofits advocate against policy objectives. We explore how groups serve client needs by …