The politics of international migration management edited by M. Geiger and A. Pécoud. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2010. No. of pages: v + 294. Price: $90.00 (hardback). ISBN 978 0 230 27258 3 (pages 698–700)

摘要

In early 2011, amid growing political unrestnin the Middle East and in North Africa, Italynbraced itself for a surge of immigrants and refugeesnfleeing their homelands for the relativensafety of the European Union (EU). Italian officialsnresponded in twoways: by pressing the EU to easenits burden by parcelling out migrants to othernmember countries and by asking Tunisia andnLibya, the staging grounds for these migrations,nto resume previous agreements with Italy tonmanage irregular movement. These sorts of immigrationndeals, thrown into unexpectedly starknrelief by the popular protests in the Arab world,nare coming under increasing scrutiny. How donsuch alliances develop, and who do they benefit?nWhat can we make of collaborative strategies tondeal with international mobility? The timelynedited volume The Politics of International MigrationnManagement (2010) seeks to answer these questionsnby critically assessing the migration managementnpolicy approach.