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Inside Immigration Law
Migration Management and Policy Application in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Inside Immigration Law analyses the practice of implementing immigration law, examining the different political and organisational forces that influence the process. Based on unparalleled academic access to the German migration management system, this book provides new insights into the ’black box’...
Inventing the Immigration Problem
The Dillingham Commission and Its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
In 1907 the U.S. Congress created a joint commission to investigate what many Americans saw as a national crisis: an unprecedented number of immigrants flowing into the United States. Experts—women and men trained in the new field of social science—fanned out across the country to collect data...
The Immigration Crucible
Transforming Race, Nation, and the Limits of the Law
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
In the debate over U. S. immigration, all sides now support policy and practice that expand the parameters of enforcement. Philip Kretsedemas examines this development from several different perspectives, exploring recent trends in U.S. immigration policy, the rise in extralegal state power over the...
Naturalizing Mexican Immigrants
A Texas History
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a majority of the Mexican immigrant population in the United States resided in Texas, making the state a flashpoint in debates over whether to deny naturalization rights. As Texas federal courts grappled with the issue, policies pertaining to Mexican...
by Joshua Woods, C. Damien Arthur
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
This book offers a broad interdisciplinary approach to the changes in the U.S. immigration debate before and after 9/11. A nation’s reaction to foreigners has as much to do with sociology as it does with political science, economics and psychology. Without drawing on this knowledge, our understanding...
Immigration Regulation in Federal States
Challenges and Responses in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
The book examines the phenomenon of immigration federalism: its main characteristics, why and how it has developed, its implications for immigration systems (in general) and non-citizens’ rights (in particular). The book introduces the reader to theoretical perspectives on immigration federalism...
Globalization, Migration and Social Transformation
Ireland in Europe and the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
In the space of around ten years Ireland went from being a traditional labour exporter to a leading European economy, and thus an attractive destination for immigrants from Eastern Europe and further afield. This produced a singular social laboratory, which this book explores in all its complexity...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Immigration has significant consequences for all Americans, but especially for African Americans.áThe sheer magnitude of immigration--it is the primary factor driving population growth--is so large that it directly or indirectly affects the economic, political, social, and environmental circumstances...
Framing Immigrants
News Coverage, Public Opinion, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
While undocumented immigration is controversial, the general public is largely unfamiliar with the particulars of immigration policy. Given that public opinion on the topic is malleable, to what extent do mass media shape the public debate on immigration? In Framing Immigrants, political scientists...
Beyond Deportation
The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Cases
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
The first book to comprehensively
describe the history, theory, and application of prosecutorial discretion in
immigration law
When Beatles star John Lennon faced deportation from the U.S. in the 1970s, his lawyer Leon Wildes made a groundbreaking argument. He argued that Lennon should be granted...
by Kitty Calavita
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
The acclaimed socio-legal study of the Bracero labor program, why it failed, and what that means to immigration policy and organizational theory. By Kitty Calavita, professor of criminology, law and society at UC-Irvine and author of 'Invitation to Law & Society' (U. of Chicago, 2010), now with...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Scholarship on immigration to America is a coin with two sides: it asks both how America changed immigrants, and how they changed America. Were the immigrants uprooted from their ancestral homes, leaving everything behind, or were they transplanted, bringing many aspects of their culture with them?...
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Transforming America: Perspectives on U.S. Immigration [3 volumes]
Perspectives on U.S. Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Transforming America: Perspectives on U.S. Immigration covers immigration to the United States from the founding of America to the present. Comprising 3 volumes of 31 original scholarly essays, the work is the first of its kind to explore immigration and immigration policy in the United States throughout...
by Rory Dunlop, Graham Denholm, Lisa Giovannetti QC
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
The UK has some of the largest immigration detention facilities in Europe, holding as many as 3000 individuals at any point in time. Foreign nationals are held under immigration powers in a variety of circumstances including on arrival pending examination, whilst an asylum claim is considered in the...