The Power and Morals of Policy Makers: Reassessing the Control Gap Debate.

• Autores: Saskia Bonjour
• Localización: International migration review, ISSN 0197-9183, Vol. 45, Nº. 1, 2011, págs. 89-122
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • For more than 15 years, there has been a lively debate among migration scholars in Europe and North America about how to explain 'why liberal states accept unwanted migration.' This paper assesses existent hypotheses in the 'most-likely' case of the making of Dutch family migration policies. This empirical test raises serious doubts as to the validity of the broadly shared assumption that national policy makers have lost the power to regulate migration flows. Accounts that focus on the mechanisms of domestic politics do yield valuable insights, but fail to capture the crucial role of immaterial values in the decision-making process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]