Politics, not economic interests: Determinants of migration policies in the European Union

International Migration Review

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 182-205

  Hix, Simon ^a   Noury, Abdul ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN UNION; IMMIGRATION POLICY; MIGRATION DETERMINANT; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 33846804271     PISSN: 01979183     EISSN: 17477379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-7379.2007.00061.x     Document Type: Article

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