Date: 2016
Type: Book
Policy frames on spousal migration in Germany : regulating membership, regulating the family
Wiesbaden : Springer, 2016, Studien zur Migrations- und Integrationspolitik
BLOCK, Laura, Policy frames on spousal migration in Germany : regulating membership, regulating the family, Wiesbaden : Springer, 2016, Studien zur Migrations- und Integrationspolitik
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/41284
Retrieved from Cadmus, EUI Research Repository
Laura Block asks how liberal democracies manage to restrict migration in spite of liberal constraints. She analyses the political debates surrounding spousal migration policies from 2005-2010 in Germany and reveals government strategies that restrict spousal migration while staying within the discursive realm of individual rights. By circumscribing and scrutinising both the membership status necessary to access the right to family protection and the family ties in question, restricting spousal migration is legitimised.
Table of Contents:
-- 1. Introduction -- 2. A theoretical framework for the analysis of spousal migration policies -- 3. Empirical and legal realities of spousal migration to Germany -- 4. 2005-2010: Spousal migration comes into focus -- 5. The European dimension of family migration policies -- 6. Political and institutional frames on spousal migration -- 7. The "other" side: Transnational couples' and migrant advocates' perspectives -- 8. Conclusions
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/41284
Full-text via DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-13296-5
ISBN: 9783658132965; 9783658132958
Publisher: Springer
Initial version: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/22685
Version: Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2012