How do states in the Global South manage cross-border migration? This article identifies
Hollifield's “migration state” as a useful tool for comparative analysis yet notes that in its …

The evolution of migration policymaking across the Global South is of growing interest to
International Relations. Yet, the impact of colonial and imperial legacies on states' migration …

This essay (re-) introduces the concept of the migration state and its significance for
migration studies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, discussing its intellectual history …

Scholars of migration studies have only recently begun to focus on the interconnected
histories of empire, postcolonialism, and human mobility. The existing literature presents a …

This article develops the concept of 'entangled migration states' as a means of highlighting
the centrality of migration governance to state-building processes, the constitution of state …

This paper compares immigration reforms across democratic and autocratic states.
Mobilising two large-scale datasets, it first challenges the prevailing notion that political …

Hollifield's 'migration state'concept draws attention to the political tension between openness
and closure in liberal-democratic countries, arguing that domestic migration policy regimes …

Building on the notion of the migration state, this article introduces the concepts of 'migration
rent'and 'immigration rentier states' to describe how states that rely heavily on immigration …

In the past decade, theorising about migration policy has rapidly included more states
beyond Western Europe or North America. Expanding the temporal and geographical range …

Despite labour shortages and rapidly shrinking working-age populations, Japan, South
Korea, and Taiwan shared restrictive immigration policies and exclusionary practices toward …