The EU’s immigration policy has again found itself at the centre of attention following the tragic events of April 2015, when
two shipwrecks
in the Mediterranean Sea took the lives of more than a thousand North African refugees making an illegal attempt to reach ...
... foreign labor accounts for more than two-thirds of those employed in the construction and restaurant industries in many European countries, as well as in the United States and Canada.
Second, the gap between the symbolic and instrumental levels of the immigration policy, i.e. between what officials say in public and their practical steps, is very large.
It turns out that the vocalizing of tough immigration policy does not necessarily entail subsequent actions. Moreover, the authorities can carry out ...