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Migration Policy Institute
Nonprofit•Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States•
About: Migration Policy Institute is a nonprofit organization based out in Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Immigration & Population. The organization has 43 authors who have published 68 publications receiving 1131 citations. The organization is also known as: MPI.
Topics: Immigration, Population, Immigration policy, Refugee, European union
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01 Jan 2009
129 citations
TL;DR: This article reviewed a series of policy options that have been proposed to fill the governance gap in international migration; namely, to create a new agency, to designate a lead agency, and to bring the International Organization for Migration into the UN system.
Abstract: This article explains how the global governance of international migration has evolved as a policy issue on the international agenda over the past decade while noting that there is still no consensus on whether global governance is really required, what type of global governance would be appropriate, and how it should develop. The article reviews a series of policy options that have been proposed to fill the governance gap in international migration; namely, to create a new agency, to designate a lead agency, to bring the International Organization for Migration into the UN system, a coordination model, a leadership model, a World Trade Organization model, and an evolutionary model.
107 citations
TL;DR: In the academic literature, mainstreaming is conceptualized as a shift in policy focus (from specific to generic), as well as in governance (from state-centric to poly-centric). Whereas mainstreaming has been applied in various areas, such as gender, disability and environment, a more recent application concerns migrant integration, which has so far been understudied in academic circles as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: In the academic literature, mainstreaming is conceptualized as a shift in policy focus (from specific to generic), as well as in governance (from state-centric to poly-centric). Whereas mainstreaming has been applied in various areas, such as gender, disability and environment, a more recent application concerns migrant integration, which has so far been under-studied in academic circles. This article provides a critical analysis of mainstreaming as a supposed ‘trend’ in migrant integration policies. It provides a conceptual discussion of what mainstreaming might mean in the field of migrant integration in an effort to connect the concept of mainstreaming as used in other fields to the literature on migrant integration, and notably the emerging concept of interculturalism. Following this, it provides an empirical analysis of shifts in integration governance and policy in Denmark, France, Germany and the UK in an effort to explain whether mainstreaming, as conceptualized, is taking place. The article concl...
61 citations
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| Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Somerville | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| Elizabeth M. Grieco | 1 | 1 | 11 |
| Leighton C. Ku | 1 | 1 | 26 |
| Randolph C. Capps | 1 | 1 | 40 |
| Jessica Bolter | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Andrew Selee | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Laureen Laglagaron | 1 | 1 | 27 |
| Lena Kainz | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| Marc R. Rosenblum | 1 | 1 | 12 |
| Deborah Waller Meyers | 1 | 1 | 38 |
| Madeleine Sumption | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Karl-Ludwig Laugwitz | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Gregory A. Maniatis | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Hugo Beteta | 0 | 1 | 0 |