Migration Policy in the United Kingdom : A Case Study of Jordan and Duvell's Work

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This paper discusses the economic theory on international migration and its limitation in analyzing the changing issues of national identity, citizenship and the concept of nation state. The starting point is a framework proposed in 2002 by Bill Jordan and Franck Duvell which analyses a group of topics-irregular migration, migration control and the effect of migration-that provides a theoretical framework for the analysis of transnational migration and the policy issues in the UK and other European Union (EU) member states. This paper also considers some of the key theoretical and conceptual issues raised by Jordan and Duvell against the historical and empirical realities over the last two centuries. This paper argues that while there is no comprehensive generally accepted migration theory, there is a need for better targeted research to examine the effects and impacts of new migrant flows as a fundamental paradigm shift, long-term causes and effects of previous migrations and structurally-embedded nature of economic, demographic, historical, legal and political structures in each of countries and a growing diversity of world migration patterns as a result of national, supra-national and global factors as distinct from the static, a-historic analysis of neo-classical economic theory on migration.
2004-09-30