In recent decades, governments have made labour markets sites of immigration enforcement through employer sanctions and other measures. In some countries, unions and employers’ associations facilitate implementation of these initiatives, while in others they openly or tacitly resist cooperation. This paper explores these patterns of cooperation and resistance through analysis of six countries. The method used is qualitative comparative analysis, using primary and secondary sources that include newspaper coverage, government reports, union documents and scholarly accounts. The explanation centres on the degree of social partner embeddedness in government decision-making and economic management. In countries with institutionalized, coordinated relationships between the social partners and the state, this coordination extends to implementation of employers’ sanctions. In systems with less institutionalized cooperation, employers and unions are less likely to assist the immigration control objectives of state officials. These practices also affect migrants’ ability to live within a society, making them not only a form of immigration control, but also important for migrant wellbeing.

在最近几十年中，政府通过雇主制裁和其他措施使劳动力市场成为移民执法场所。在一些国家，工会和雇主协会促进了这些举措的实施，而在另一些国家，它们则公开或默认地拒绝合作。本文通过对六个国家的分析，探讨了这些合作与抵制的模式。使用的方法是定性比较分析，使用的主要和次要来源包括报纸报道，政府报告，工会文件和学术报告。解释集中于社会伙伴在政府决策和经济管理中的嵌入程度。在社会伙伴与国家之间制度化，协调的关系的国家，这种协调延伸到了雇主制裁的实施。在制度化合作较少的系统中，雇主和工会不太可能协助实现国家官员的移民控制目标。这些做法还会影响移民在社会中的生活能力，不仅使移民成为一种移民控制手段，而且对移民福祉也很重要。