The Ashgate Research Companion to Migration Law, Theory and Policy

Abstract

This Companion is the latest in the ground-breaking Ashgate series, Law & Migration. Operating a ‘vastly expanded research agenda’ covering the current state of literature on migration law, theory and policy and its likely future developments, this book ranges far and wide. Despite the best efforts of its editor, Satvinder Juss, to give coherent structure to its contents, the diversity of its chapters - penned by some thirty-six contributors - leaves the impression of a vast, sprawling compendium. It is difficult to follow the ordering of its seven parts, which start with a critical analysis of the regional European context then move to a global-level discussion of several themes, with the more theoretical contributions left till last. The titles of some of the sections, eg, ‘Part IV: Emerging Paradigms of Legal Protection’, only weakly match their actual contents. Juss candidly acknowledges in his Preface that the book far outgrew...