Inside the ‘efficacy gap’: Migration policy and the dynamics of encounter
| Published date | 01 June 2023 |
| Author | Jessica Hagen‐Zanker,Richard Mallett |
| Date | 01 June 2023 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13028 |
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International Migration. 2023;61:148–161.
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INTRODUCTION
Migration is one of to day's most visible policy age ndas. Across Europe, incre asingly hostile and polar ised political
environment s have culminated in a marked and quite generalised shift towards a more rest rictive regime of migra-
tion policy, at least with respe ct to refugees and other migrants co ming from the glob al South. Part icularly since
the contentio usly named ‘migrati on crisis’ of 2015, the re has been a cre eping institutiona lisation of containm ent
Received: 29 Jul y 2021
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Revised: 17 March 202 2
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Accepted: 3 May 2022
DOI: 10.1111/imig.13028
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Inside the ‘efficacy gap’: Migration policy and the
dynamics of encounter
Jessica Hagen- Zanker1,2 | Richard Mallett3
© 2022 The Auth ors. Internation al Migration © 2022 IO M.
1ODI, London , UK
2Global Fellow, Pe ace Research Inst itute
Oslo (PRIO), Osl o, Norway
3London Scho ol of Economics and Res earch
Associate, O DI, London, UK
Correspondence
Jessica Hage n- Zanker, ODI, London, U K.
Email: j.hagen- zanker@odi.org.uk
Funding information
This study wa s funded by UKRI Glo bal
Challenges Re search Fund (GCRF) ( ES/
S007415/1).
Abstract
In recent years , migration has become a n important policy
priority with in and beyond the European Union. W hile
the disco urse that surr ounds the conte mporary migratio n
policy agenda is one of the techn ocratic migr ation man-
agement, this overarching narrative conceals an underly-
ing goal of prevention. Preventive efforts are increasingly
geared tow ards stopping migr atory movements before
they have even begun. The effec tiveness of such an ap-
proach remains conteste d and unclear. This article b uilds
on the th eoretical work of C zaika and de Haas (Population
and Development Review, 2013, 39, 487) to explore the
limits of prevention strategies de signed to change minds,
alter plans and redirect behaviours. It does so by drawing
on insights from our own research into migration decision-
making, al ongside wider liter ature on individual se nse-
making, and connecting these to ongoing debates a round
policy eff ectiveness. In doing so, we show how the natu re
of lo calised encounter s between ‘target’ populations and
implemented policies can create potential source s of policy
failure.
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