%0 Journal Article
%T External action as innovation in Spain¡¯s immigration policy
%A Leticia M. Delgado
%J Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals
%D 2010
%I CIDOB
%X The design of Spain¡¯s immigration policy has been transformed since the year 2000; the concepts of change and innovation in policy are applied to examine the transformations that have happened. These transformations are explained and systematised as a reinforcing of the function of immigration prevention in parallel with an increase in dependency between functions, instruments and actors; some of the factors that define the context of innovation are identified; and the innovation is illustrated with an analysis, firstly, of the ¡°Africa Plan¡±, which was conceived as an immigration prevention plan, and secondly, of the improvements that have been introduced into the Spanish system of repatriation.
%K Spain
%K immigration policy
%K change and innovation in policy
%K foreign policy
%U http://www.cidob.org/en/content/download/24685/304783/file/3_LETICIA+DELGADO.pdf