dc.contributor.author	Boucher, Anna
dc.contributor.author	Gest, Justin
dc.date.accessioned	2015-04-28T19:48:28Z
dc.date.available	2015-04-28T19:48:28Z
dc.date.issued	2014-08-22
dc.description	The Version of Record of this manuscript has been published and is available in Migration Studies, 2014. doi:10.1093/migration/mnu035. Supplementary data is available through the publisher.
dc.description.abstract	International migration and its scientific examination have reached a crossroads. Today, migrants are pursuing opportunities in new destination societies with growing economies and different forms of governance from democratic states—transformations that complicate established understandings about national immigration models and their evolution. In light of these transformations, this article reviews the field of migration studies and its sketching of immigration patterns in the contemporary period. It critically examines existing systems of classification in a way that creates space for revised approaches. In doing so, this article identifies three key limitations with existing approaches. First, existing classifications largely focus on Western states, and especially traditional destination countries. Second, existing classifications are weakened by unclear or poorly defined indicators. Finally, even those classifications with improved indicators are hindered by approaches that examine admission and citizenship/settlement regimes independently of each other, ignoring a possible migration integration policy nexus.
dc.description.sponsorship	This work was supported by the Institute of Social Studies and the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney, and the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences at Harvard University as well as the Belfer Centre at Harvard University.
dc.identifier.citation	Anna Boucher and Justin Gest. Migration studies at a crossroads: A critique of immigration regime typologies. Migrat Stud first published online August 22, 2014. doi:10.1093/migration/mnu035.
dc.identifier.other	doi:10.1093/migration/mnu035
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1920/9243
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Oxford University Press
dc.rights	Copyright 2014 Anna Boucher and Justin Gest
dc.subject	Migration
dc.subject	Integration
dc.subject	Regime
dc.subject	Typology
dc.subject	Crossroads
dc.subject	Global
dc.title	Migration Studies at a Crossroads: A Critique of Immigration Regime Typologies
dc.type	Article

Migration Studies at a Crossroads: A Critique of Immigration Regime Typologies

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