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Circumventing deadlock through venue-shopping: Why there is more than just talk in US immigration politics in times of economic crisis
Fabian GülzauNatascha ZaunChristof Roossubject
Immigration reformmedia_common.quotation_subjectVenue shopping05 social sciencesImmigrationLegislatureDeadlock (game theory)JK Political institutions (United States)0506 political scienceJV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migrationPoliticsArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)Immigration policyState (polity)LawPolitical economy0502 economics and business050602 political science & public administrationdeadlock economic crisis immigration policies multiple streams USA venue-shoppingSociology050207 economicsDemographymedia_commondescription
This article addresses the question of how the financial and economic crisis that hit the US in the late 2000s impacted immigration policies. We find that the crisis has not significantly changed dynamics. Instead, it has highlighted and aggravated persisting trends. Drawing on Kingdon’s multiple streams model and combining it with the notion of two-level games, we find that while the policy stream and the problem stream would call for both restrictive and liberalising changes, the political stream impedes change: The fact that Congress has been divided for a long time over Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR) impedes any restrictive or liberalising changes. With problems resulting from current policies being intensified through the global economic crisis, however, actors favouring either restrictive or liberal policy change look for alternative venues to pursue their policy aims. Through legislative changes on the state level or via executive orders by the president, policies can be changed on a lower level without CIR.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-03-22 |