Political Economy of Border Drawing

Regine Paul is a postdoc scholar with the HowSAFE project on comparative risk regulation at the University of Bielefeld. She has published a number of scholarly articles and contributed to edited volumes on migration and mobility policies in Europe. She is also board member of the research network "European Integration and the Global Political Economy" at the Council for European Studies.

• List of Figures, Tables and Boxes Preface Abbreviations Introduction: Labor Migration Management: A Case for Interdisciplinary and Interpretive Policy Studies PART I: BORDER-DRAWING AS A FRAMEWORK FOR MIGRATION POLICY Chapter 1. Labor Migration Management as Meaningful Border-Drawing Chapter 2. Border-Drawing across Capitalist Economies, Welfare States and Citizenship Regimes Chapter 3. Contextualized Border-Drawing: Profiling Migration Histories and Policy Legacies for Comparative Analysis PART II: BORDER-DRAWING IN GERMAN, FRENCH AND BRITISH LABOR MIGRATION POLICIES Chapter 4. What Makes Migrant Workers 'Legal'? Mapping Entry RegulatioN Chapter 5. A "Tool for Growth"? The Shared Cultural Political Economy of Labor Migration Policies Chapter 6. "Poles Don't Even Play Cricket!" Embedding Labor Migration Policies in National Socio-Cultural Norms Conclusion: Border-Drawing, Policy Analysis, and the Governance of Mobility in Europe Documents and Interviews References Index

"The author relates in an inspiring way [how] - capitalism, the welfare regime, and citizenship [relate] to migration policies, and analyzes the logics of labor migration regulations in three cases. The book makes a key contribution to the academic debate by pointing light on the normative basis of migration policies and the seeming contradictions between the logics of migrant admissions." * Lisa-Marie Heimeshoff, University of Kassel "This is one the most innovative books on labor migration I have read in a decade. Regine Paul's precise mastery of, among others, comparative political economy and rigorous constructivist sociology allows her to go beyond traditional accounts of labor migration policy - [This]book is a wake-up call for political economists, who too often take notions such as skills, shortage or legality for granted instead of studying them as objects of political struggles and stakes in contested boundary-making processes." * Sebastien Chauvin, University of Amsterdam