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Author	K. Apostolatou
Title	Immigrant and immigration policy-making: a review of the literature of the Greek case
Publisher	IMISCOE
Place	Amsterdam
Title series	Working paper
Year	2005
Institute/dept.	FIERI - Forum Internazionale ed Europeo di Ricerche sull'Immigrazione
Keywords	Cities/Countries; Policies local/national/international; Comparative theory/case studies
Abstract	The creation of public policy is a dynamic process. Events, actors, and political institutions combine and conflict in a wide array of unpredictable ways (Gerston 1997: 20). The process that has led to immigrant and immigration policies in Greece, the actors involved and the levels at which they are made, is a topic that has been ignored by the academic community. The following literature review covers this area to show the need for future research. First, the extent and type of recent migration flows to Greece will be shortly presented, as well as the main immigration legislation since the beginning of the 1990s. Secondly, the existing literature will be reviewed, giving emphasis to studies which have put in the centre of their analysis not so much the content of immigrant and integration policies, but the process that has led to them. In this review of the literature we will focus on the national decision-making level of immigrant and integration policies in Greece. Studies that deal with the local, intermediate and supranational level are almost non-existent.
Document type	Report
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