The Foreign Policy of Irregular Migration Governance: State Security and Migrants’ Insecurity in Italy and Australia (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics)

Irregular migration is one of the most momentous phenomena of the 21st century.While it is a life-changing process for migrants themselves, it also entails a number of significant challenges for destination countries and their local populations.Consequently, irregular migration is now a heavily debated and polarising issue in most receiving states.However, the multiple perspectives on this phenomenon are rarely assessed together, and states’ role in shaping national and international responses remains understudied, which hinders a comprehensive understanding of irregular migration governance.To address this issue, this innovative book investigates irregular migration by concurrently analysing the viewpoints of migrants, states, and their local populations.To that end, it builds on multidisciplinary insights from international relations, migration studies, political science, and other disciplines, and adopts Italy and Australia as two highly relevant yet rarely compared case studies, wi