The Effectiveness of Immigration Policies

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International Migration: Trends, Determinants, and Policy Effects (2019, background): “Migration policies can be defined as rules (i.e., laws, regulations, measures, and procedures) that national states enact with the explicit objective of affecting the volume, origin, direction, and composition of migration (Czaika and de Haas 2013).”
The Globalization of Migration: Has the World Become More Migratory? 1 (2014, background): “Immigration policies have increasingly been about selection migrants in terms of their national origin, occupation, and wealth, rather than about curbing volumes per se (Ortega and Peri, 2009; Czaika and de Haas, 2013).”
Growing Restrictiveness or Changing Selection? The Nature and Evolution of Migration Policies1 (2014, neutral): “This challenges the rather widespread idea that these migrants are more and more shunned and points to a significant “discursive gap” (Czaika and de Haas 2013) between the “tough talk” of politicians aiming to attenuate public fears about immigration and the actual policies on paper, which are…”