Labour's Immigration Policy : The Making of the Migration State.

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Puzzle of Managed Migration -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Unpacking the Migration State -- 1.3 Multiple Lenses -- 1.4 Plan of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: A Framework for Understanding Immigration Policy -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.1.1 Defining Policy Change -- 2.2 Organised Interests: Non-governmental Actors and Policy Networks -- 2.2.1 Policy Context: Organised Interests and Immigration Policy Change -- 2.3 Do Parties Matter: Political Parties and Party Ideology -- 2.3.1 Political Parties and the Politics of Immigration -- 2.4 Historical Institutionalism: Institutional Change, Policy Framings and Critical Junctures -- 2.4.1 Institutions and Immigration Policy -- 2.5 Methodology and Research Design -- References -- Chapter 3: Making the Migration State: The History of Britain's Immigration Policy -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Maintaining Fortress Britain: 1948-1970 -- 3.3 1970-1980: Joining the Community -- 3.4 1980-1997: Swamping Britain and the Asylum Crisis -- 3.5 Immigration Policy Under New Labour -- 3.6 Dealing with the Asylum Crisis: 1997-2000 -- 3.7 2000-2005: The Making of Managed Migration -- 3.7.1 Our Competitive Future: High-skilled Migration -- 3.7.2 Work Permits -- 3.7.3 Low and Semi-skilled: SAWS, SBS and Working Holidaymakers -- 3.7.4 Student Immigration: PMI and Post-study Work Visa -- 3.7.5 A8 Accession -- 3.7.6 Managed Migration: Points-based System -- 3.8 2005-2010: Rowing Back -- 3.9 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: In Whose Interest? Organised Interests, Policy Networks and Collective Action -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Lobbying Strategies -- 4.3 Britain's Immigration Policy Network -- 4.3.1 Trade Associations/Employer Associations -- 4.3.2 Professional Bodies and Sectional Interest Groups -- 4.3.3 Labour Unions.

4.3.4 Think Tanks -- 4.3.5 Charities and Humanitarian NGOs -- 4.4 Organised Interests: Power to Change? -- 4.5 The Agenda-shaping Stage: Development of the Points-based System -- 4.6 Consolidation of the Policy Community -- 4.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Do Parties Matter? Party Ideology and Party Competition -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Old Labour and the 'Wilderness Years' -- 5.3 New Party, New Labour -- 5.4 The Third Way and Immigration -- 5.5 Cosmopolitan Pluralism -- 5.6 Control and Continuity: The Other Side of Immigration Policy -- 5.7 Constraints on Party Action: Internal Dissent and External Competition -- 5.7.1 Dissent and Intra-party Conflict -- 5.7.2 External Constraints: 'This Will Be a Bipartisan Policy that I Hope Will Last for Many Years' (Letwin 2002) -- 5.7.2.1 1997-2005: Asylum Crisis -- 5.7.2.2 2005 Break Point: It's Not Racist to Impose Limits on Immigration -- 5.8 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Bringing the State Back In: Institutional Change and the Administrative Context -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Departmentalism and Home Office Culture -- 6.2.1 Home Office: 'A Culture of Caution' -- 6.3 The Politics of New Labour: Changing Institutional Settings -- 6.4 From Control Thinking to Economic Thinking: Immigration Policy and Joined-Up Government -- 6.4.1 The Treasury -- 6.4.2 Business-Orientated Departments -- 6.4.3 Foreign and Commonwealth Office -- 6.4.4 Communities and Health -- 6.4.5 Departmental Tensions -- 6.4.6 Policy Entrepreneurs -- 6.5 Evidence, Knowledge and Policy Transfer -- 6.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: An Unintended Consequence… -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Summary and Key Findings -- 7.2.1 Organised Interests -- 7.2.2 Party Politics -- 7.2.3 Administrative Context: Institutions, Policy Frames and Knowledge -- 7.3 Pulling the Threads Together: Complex Causality.

7.4 Explanatory Insights for Policy Change -- References -- Chapter 8: Beyond New Labour -- 8.1 Feedback Effects: State Enhancing and Interest Group Formation -- 8.2 The Politics of Immigration: Unintended Developments of the A8 Decision -- 8.2.1 UKIP and the Fusion Strategy -- 8.2.2 Tories: Accommodative Strategy -- 8.2.3 Labour and Immigration: The Elephant in the Room -- 8.3 New Labour's Legacies -- 8.3.1 Immigration and Labour's Identity Crisis -- 8.3.2 New Labour's Legacies: The Backlash Against Globalist Policies -- References -- Appendix 1: Overview of Economic Immigration Policy Reforms and Rhetoric, 1997-2010 -- Index.

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