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Responding to unauthorized residence: on a dilemma between ‘firewalls’ and ‘regularizations’

Schmid, Lukas

Comparative migration studies, 2024-12, Vol.12 (1), p.22-18, Article 22 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Cham: Springer International Publishing

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  • Title:
    Responding to unauthorized residence: on a dilemma between ‘firewalls’ and ‘regularizations’
  • Author: Schmid, Lukas
  • Subjects: Firewalls ; Immigrants ; Immigration ; Immigration control ; Immigration policy ; Inclusion ; Migration ; Moral dilemmas ; Original Article ; Policy making ; Population Economics ; Regularization ; Residence ; Rule of law ; Social Sciences ; Sociology ; The Ethics of Migration Policy Dilemmas ; Unauthorized
  • Is Part Of: Comparative migration studies, 2024-12, Vol.12 (1), p.22-18, Article 22
  • Description: Residence of unauthorized immigrants is a stable feature of the Global North’s liberal democracies. This article asks how liberal-democratic policymakers should respond to this phenomenon, assuming both that states have incontrovertible rights and interests to assert control over immigration and that unauthorized residence is nevertheless an entrenched fact. It argues that a set of liberal-democratic commitments gives policymakers strong reason to implement both so-called ‘firewall’ and ‘regularization’ policies, thereby protecting unauthorized immigrants’ basic needs and interests and officially incorporating many of them in society. It then explains that the background imperative of immigration control creates a dilemmatic tension between these policies, as regularization is envisaged alongside the removal of the ineligible, which is in turn hindered by the implementation of firewalls. This creates a dilemma between the pursuit of two policy goals that are both underwritten by the same value commitments. Though it cannot be entirely dissolved, I argue that the best way to mitigate this dilemma is to design regularization policy in a way that leaves only a small number of unauthorized immigrants subject to removal.
  • Publisher: Cham: Springer International Publishing
  • Language: English
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