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Assessment of National Migration Policies: An emerging picture on admissions, treatment and enforcement in developing and developed countries

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  • Jeni Klugman

    (Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Programme)

  • Isabel Medalho Pereira

    (Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Programme)

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This paper presents an internationally comparable assessment of several dimensions of migration policies as of early 2009. For a selected set of 28 countries, both developed and developing, we analyse the admission criteria, policies on integration and treatment of migrants, and efforts to enforce those policies. Irregular migration is a particular area of focus. The analysis distinguishes between different entry regimes, namely: labour migrants (high or low skilled, with a permanent or a temporary permit), those who move with a family-related visa, humanitarian migrants (asylum seekers and refugees), international visitors and international students. The data is drawn from an assessment by country experts as well as by desk-research of HDRO staff.

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  • Jeni Klugman & Isabel Medalho Pereira, 2009. "Assessment of National Migration Policies: An emerging picture on admissions, treatment and enforcement in developing and developed countries," Human Development Research Papers (2009 to present) HDRP-2009-48, Human Development Report Office (HDRO), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), revised Oct 2009.
    • Handle: RePEc:hdr:papers:hdrp-2009-48
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    1. Matthew Cummins & Francisco Rodriguez, 2010. "Is There a Numbers versus Rights Trade-off in Immigration Policy? What the Data Say," Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 11(2), pages 281-303.
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    1. Helbling, Marc & Bjerre, Liv & Römer, Friederike & Zobel, Malisa, 2017. "Measuring immigration policies: the IMPIC database," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 16(1), pages 79-98.
    2. Berger, Valentin & Bjerre, Liv & Breyer, Magdalena & Helbling, Marc & Römer, Friederike & Zobel, Malisa, 2024. "The Immigration Policies in Comparison (IMPIC) Dataset: Technical Report V2," Discussion Papers, various Research Units SP VI 2016-201r, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, revised 2024.
    3. Bjerre, Liv & Helbling, Marc & Römer, Friederike & Zobel, Malisa Zora, 2016. "The Immigration Policies in Comparison (IMPIC) Dataset: Technical Report," Discussion Papers, various Research Units SP VI 2016-201, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
    4. Pedroza, Luicy, 2020. "A comprehensive framework for studying migration policies (and a call to observe them beyond immigration to the West)," GIGA Working Papers 321, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies.
    5. Dilfuza Rasulova, 2010. "Theoretical Aspects Of Studying The Migration Processes," Perspectives of Innovation in Economics and Business (PIEB), Prague Development Center, vol. 4(1), pages 86-87, February.
    6. Schmid, Samuel D. & Helbling, Marc, 2016. "Validating the Immigration Policies in Comparison (IMPIC) dataset," Discussion Papers, various Research Units SP VI 2016-202, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
    7. Francesco Pasetti & Carmine Conte, 2021. "Refugees and Beneficiaries of Subsidiary Protection: Measuring and Comparing Integration Policies," Global Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 12(3), pages 350-360, May.

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    Keywords

    Migration policies; admission; treatment; enforcement;
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    JEL classification:

    • O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
    • J0 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General
    • F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration

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