Interpreting the immigration policies in Spain from the debate transnationalism -methodological nationalism

The sociological interpretation of immigration policyin Spain has gone through several phases as the analysis of political discourses or socio-legal analysis. These interpretation shave not fi nished answering some paradoxes that are observed at the different levels of government: European Union, st...

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Main Author: Álvaro Morcillo Espina
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad Pontificia Comillas 2013-05-01
Series:Migraciones
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Online Access:https://revistas.upcomillas.es/index.php/revistamigraciones/article/view/1021
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Summary:The sociological interpretation of immigration policyin Spain has gone through several phases as the analysis of political discourses or socio-legal analysis. These interpretation shave not fi nished answering some paradoxes that are observed at the different levels of government: European Union, state and regional level. The debate transnationalism-methodological nationalism provides a conceptual framework of «Weberian ideal types» that allows us a new interpretation of immigration policies in Spain getting encompass and surpass previous interpretations.This theoretical framework, barely used for the Spanish context, sheds light on the power relations between State and the Marketand its influence in shaping immigration policy.
ISSN:1138-5774
2341-0833