Controlling a New Migration World explores the factors that drive recent migration control policies and, in turn, sheds light on the unintended consequences of policies for the new character of migration. This book asks how we can account for the immigration policies of liberal states. Is the recent linkage between migration and security a rhetorical invention of elites or a reflection of changing migrant profiles? Are states' control policies effectively containing or only redirecting unwanted migration flows? This increasingly relevant issue will be of great use to anyone working in comparative politics, sociology and studying ethnicity or international migration, as well as professionals working in the migrant/asylum and public law fields.

Virgini e Guiraudon is permanent research fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research in France and the author of Les politiques d'immigration en Europe (2000). Christian Joppke is Professor of Sociology at the European University Institute, Florence; his book publications include Immigration and the Nation-State: the United States, Germany, and Great Britain (1999).

Part I: Reforming Migration Control
Part II: Linking Migration and Security Part III: New Migration World