Immigration Policy and Application

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This paper examines the controversial issue of immigration policy and legislation with particular focus on whether immigration law is specifically used to control external individuals from crossing borders or whether it is utilised by state sovereignty as a means of controlling individuals already within the state as well.

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"The application of immigration law and policy within a state, especially that of a European state, is a complex issue, the ideology that the national state utilises policy and law to exert a control measure over both internal and external populations is equally just, as is the argument that it is state sovereignty that, through application of enforcement, categorises a diverse contingent of migrants into either legal or illegal immigrant groups. Again, these groups are subject to change with policy reform, and it is possible for an 'illegal' immigrant to become 'legal' with the application of policy reform. One of the primary groups vulnerable to state control through application of immigration laws and policies is that of the migrant worker."

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