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SUMMARY:Immigration policy-making beyond 'Western liberal democracies' - K
 atherina Natter\, University of Amsterdam
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CONTACT:Julia Doyle
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Katharina Natter is a doctoral researcher within the 
 Migration as Development (MADE) project at the University of Amsterdam. Sh
 e holds a Research Master in Comparative Politics with a minor in Middle E
 ast-North African studies from Sciences Po\, Paris (2012). Her PhD focusse
 s on the politics of immigration in Morocco and Tunisia and more generally
  on the role of political systems and state formation in migration policym
 aking. From 2013-2015\, she worked at the International Migration Institut
 e (University of Oxford). Katharina is also actively involved in Asylos\, 
 an NGO researching country of origin information for lawyers representing 
 asylum seekers in European courts.\nSummary: How do political systems shap
 e immigration policy-making? Explicitly or implicitly\, existing immigrati
 on policy theories have suggested a ‘regime effect’ by linking specifi
 c dynamics of immigration policy to liberal democracy. Their focus on ‘W
 estern liberal democracies’ however has left immigration policy-making i
 n other political systems strikingly undertheorized. This presentation cal
 ls for a more nuanced theorizing of immigration policymaking by moving bey
 ond simplistic dichotomies of Western/non-Western and democratic/autocrati
 c. The need for such theoretical expansion beyond the ‘Western’ and 
 ‘liberal’ bubble is illustrated by an analysis of 21st century immigra
 tion policymaking in Morocco's monarchy as opposed to Tunisia's democratiz
 ing system. Investigating the role of political systems in immigration pol
 itics\, the paper seeks to contribute to a more global theorization of imm
 igration policies.\n
LOCATION:Alison Richard Building\, S3
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