Lecture 'Meet the Expert: Migration policies as an electoral ploy too often based on myths'

Without migrants’ political agency, migration policies remain mired in myths and stereotypes. Indeed, migrants cannot provide the reality check of their lived lives in order to shape migration policies which correspond to their reality on the ground. In particular, it is politically impossible at present to sanction all the employers who exploit undocumented migrants and thus provide the essential pull factor for undocumented migration, a pull factor without which the latter would be considerably reduced.