Migration Question

This authoritative book proposes a freshperspective on international migration, offeringdecisive answers to the big questions, anddismantling the main myths surrounding one ofthe most salient issues of todays global politics.Who are these migrants? Do they steal our jobs?Can we help them in their home countries? Doborder controls improve security? Are openborders desirable? Leila Simona Talani andMatilde Rosina address these issues and more intheir deeply researched study of migration intoboth Europe and the United States.Assessing globalisations impact on internationalmigration, the authors find that it is virtuallyimpossible to stop contemporary flows from theGlobal South to North. In this context, policiesdesigned to control, limit or deter immigrationsimply transform some or all regular migrantsinto irregular onesexacerbating insecurity forcitizens of the receiving state, and criminalisingthe migrants.Through empirical research including originalsurveys and interviews, Talani and Rosinademonstrate conclusively that the only solutionto this short-circuit world of securitisation andcriminalisation is for the Global North to open itsdoors to the migrants already, inevitably, comingthroughparticularly since the evidence showsthat regularising migration is a positive-sumgame, in economic, social and security terms.