The Political Economy of Border Drawing

"The author relates in an inspiring way [how] - capitalism, the welfare regime, and citizenship [relate] to migration policies, and analyzes the logics of labor migration regulations in three cases. The book makes a key contribution to the academic debate by pointing light on the normative basis of migration policies and the seeming contradictions between the logics of migrant admissions." * Lisa-Marie Heimeshoff, University of Kassel "This is one the most innovative books on labor migration I have read in a decade. Regine Paul's precise mastery of, among others, comparative political economy and rigorous constructivist sociology allows her to go beyond traditional accounts of labor migration policy - [This]book is a wake-up call for political economists, who too often take notions such as skills, shortage or legality for granted instead of studying them as objects of political struggles and stakes in contested boundary-making processes." * Sebastien Chauvin, University of Amsterdam