The state and the regulation of migration

P. 54–73.

Korneev O., Geddes A.

The chapter develops an approach that has two key elements. The first is a focus on states as the key locations for the regulation of migration. However, rather than seeing international migration as a challenge to these states (as some kind of external threat or challenge), this chapter explores the ways in which states, relationships between states and the constitution of governance systems play a key role in shaping international migration. The second is a focus on what has been called ‘boundary build-up’, which explores the dynamics of regulation by looking at how and why greater openness to certain flows such as of goods, capital and services can be accompanied by attempts to exert tighter controls on movement of people. In short, the chapter seeks not to assess how states respond to international migration (which tends to construe the role of states as relatively passive) but, instead, to look at ways in which states shape international migration.

Keywords: постсоветское пространство, Европа, Europe, государство, state, post-Soviet space, границы, регулирование миграции, North America, borders, Северная Америка, governance challenges, boundary build-up, regulation of migration, управленческие вызовы, конструирование границ

In book

Handbook of the International Political Economy of Migration

Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015.