From border control to migration management: The case for a paradigm change in the western response to transborder population movement

Social Policy and Administration

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 563-586

  Taylor, Savitri ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Border control; Immigration policy; International cooperation; Liberal democracy

Indexed keywords

CROSS-BORDER RELATIONS; IMMIGRATION POLICY; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; POPULATION MIGRATION;

EID: 33745275593     PISSN: 01445596     EISSN: 14679515     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9515.2005.00457.x     Document Type: Article

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