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The Politics of Immigration (2nd Edition)
Questions and Answers
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
A straightforward discussion of the issues surrounding immigration
U.S. immigration has been the subject of furious debates for decades. On one side, politicians and the media talk about aliens and criminals, with calls to “deport them all.” On the other side, some advocates idealize immigrants...
The Making of the Mosaic
A History of Canadian Immigration Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2010
Immigration policy is a subject of intense political and public debate. In this second edition of the widely recognized and authoritative work The Making of the Mosaic, Ninette Kelley and Michael Trebilcock have thoroughly revised and updated their examination of the ideas, interests, institutions,...
The Immigration Crisis
Nativism, Armed Vigilantism, and the Rise of a Countervailing Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2008
Immigration remains one of the most pressing and polarizing issues in the United States. In The Immigration Crisis, the political scientist and social activist Armando Navarro takes a hard look at 400 years of immigration into the territories that now form the United States, paying particular attention...
Beside the Golden Door
U.S. Immigration Reform in a New Era of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
'I lift my lamp beside the golden door!'_the last line of Emma Lazarus's famous poem invites immigrants to enter a land of economic opportunity. Many have accepted that invitation; today, foreign-born workers make up nearly 16 percent of the U.S. workforce and account for almost half of workforce...
Trust beyond Borders
Immigration, the Welfare State, and Identity in Modern Societies
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Will immigration undermine the welfare state? Trust beyond Borders draws on public opinion data and case studies of Germany, Sweden, and the United States to document the influence of immigration and diversity on trust, reciprocity, and public support for welfare programs. Markus M. L. Crepaz demonstrates...
by Margaret Phelan, James Gillespie
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Now in its eighth edition, the Immigration Law Handbook continues to bring together all the key materials relevant to immigration and asylum law in one volume, providing an essential reference tool for those working in the area. This new edition maintains the strengths of the handbook as a reference...
Laws Harsh As Tigers
Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Focusing primarily on the exclusion of the Chinese, Lucy Salyer analyzes the popular and legal debates surrounding immigration law and its enforcement during the height of nativist sentiment in the early twentieth century. She argues that the struggles between Chinese immigrants, U.S. government officials,...
Dream Chasers
Immigration and the American Backlash
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
How the immigration battle plays out in America, from curriculum disputes to federal raids to the civil rights activism of young “Dreamers.”
Illegal immigration continues to roil American politics. The right-wing media stir up panic over “anchor babies,” job stealing, welfare dependence,...
Immigration Policy in the Age of Punishment
Detention, Deportation, and Border Control
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
The events of 2016 catapulted immigration policy to the forefront of public debate, and Donald Trump’s administration has signaled a harsh turn in enforcement. Yet the deportation, detention, and border-control policies that North American and European countries have embraced are by no means new....
by Hiroshi Motomura
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
In 1975, Texas adopted a law allowing school districts to bar children from public schools if they were in the United States unlawfully. The US Supreme Court responded in 1982 with a landmark decision, Plyler v. Doe, that kept open the schoolhouse doors, allowing these children to get the education...
Just Immigration
American Policy in Christian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Few issues are as complex and controversial as immigration in the United States. The only thing anyone seems to agree on is that the system is broken. Mark Amstutz offers a succinct overview and assessment of current immigration policy and argues for an approach to the complex immigration debate that...
The New Immigrant Whiteness
Race, Neoliberalism, and Post-Soviet Migration to the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Explores the racialization of immigrants from post-Soviet states and the nuances of citizenship for this new diaspora.
Mapping representations of post-1980s immigration from the former Soviet Union to the United States in interviews, reality TV shows, fiction, and memoirs, Claudia Sadowski-Smith...
U.S. Immigration and Education
Cultural and Policy Issues Across the Lifespan
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
This handbook helps readers to both understand and craft policies to aid the successful acculturation of immigrants in the US. It is an excellent road map for researchers in immigration and education, as well as educational and developmental psychologists, sociologists, economists, and public policy...
by Gordon H. Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
With 11.9 million undocumented residents in the United States and illegal entrants accounting for nearly half of the low-skilled foreign workforce, there is widespread agreement that the current U.S. immigration system is broken. Past reform agendas have emphasized strengthening border security, increasing...