Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: This Special Issue on 'Regime Interaction and "Unwanted Migration": From Hostility to Emancipation' problematises the ambivalence of law vis-à-vis 'unwanted migration' , building on discussions held during the MAPS Conference of December 2020.1 Contributors consider the treatment of 'unwanted migrants' , focusing on the difficulties they encounter to access their rights and interrogating the law's contradictory role in fostering hostility, while also providing a source of protection.Within this framework, migration politics, and the related effect of interests, values and ideology in the formation of policy preferences2 -particularly during crises3 -constitute an accelerator of (oppressive/emancipatory) regulation and management strategies of 1 Conflicting Responses to Refugees and Migrants in Covid-19 Europe, Queen Mary Law School, 11 December 2020 <https://www.qmul.ac.uk/law/events/items/maps-conference-conflicting
Authors: Violeta Moreno-Lax, Niovi Vavoula
Institution: Queen Mary University of London
Language: English
Subfield: Urban Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4292666558