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Migrant Rights at Work
Law's precariousness at the intersection of immigration and labour
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Public debates about the terms of membership and inclusion have intensified as developed economies increasingly rely on temporary migrant labour. While most agree that temporary migrant workers are entitled to the general protection of employment laws, temporary migrants have, by definition, restricted...
Right to DREAM
Immigration Reform and America’s Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The DREAM Act, bipartisan legislation first introduced in Congress in 2001, would provide conditional residency for undocumented youth brought to the United States as children. It recognizes that undocumented youth have done nothing wrong and that they should be allowed to work, to go to school, and...
What Have the Immigrants Ever Done For Us?
(Provocations)
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Right now, immigration is a central point of discussion in both political debate and cultural discourse. With the growth of right-wing parties in Britain, it seems that animosity towards outsiders is increasing every day - after all, immigrants come to our country, steal our jobs and exploit our public...
The Boundaries of Belonging
Online Work of Immigration-Related Social Movement Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
This book addresses an issue currently making political headlines in the United States—immigration. Immigrants have long engendered debates about the boundaries of belonging, with some singing their praises and others warning of their dangers. In particular, the 11 million unauthorized immigrants...
The Borders of Punishment
Migration, Citizenship, and Social Exclusion
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
The Borders of Punishment: Migration, Citizenship, and Social Exclusion critically assesses the relationship between immigration control, citizenship, and criminal justice. It reflects on the theoretical and methodological challenges posed by mass mobility and its control and for the first time, sets...
Alienated
Immigrant Rights, the Constitution, and Equality in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Throughout American history, the government has used U.S. citizenship and immigration law to protect privileged groups from less privileged ones, using citizenship as a “legitimate” proxy for otherwise invidious, and often unconstitutional, discrimination on the basis of race. While racial discrimination...
Japan's Demographic Revival
Rethinking Migration, Identity and Sociocultural Norms
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Japan's Demographic Revival shifts discussions about employing immigration as the "best" or "sole" solution to assuaging Japan's demographic quagmire to a more systematic approach that identifies structural, organizational and cultural impediments that contribute to Japan's (and...
Ethical Borders
NAFTA, Globalization, and Mexican Migration
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
In his topical new book, Ethical Borders, Bill Ong Hing asks, why do undocumented immigrants from Mexico continue to enter the United States and, what would discourage this surreptitious traffic? An expert on immigration law and policy, Hing examines the relationship between NAFTA, globalization,...
Three Worlds of Relief
Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2012
Three Worlds of Relief examines the role of race and immigration in the development of the American social welfare system by comparing how blacks, Mexicans, and European immigrants were treated by welfare policies during the Progressive Era and the New Deal. Taking readers from the turn of the twentieth...
Fear, Anxiety, and National Identity
Immigration and Belonging in North America and Western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Fifty years of large-scale immigration has brought significant ethnic, racial, and religious diversity to North America and Western Europe, but has also prompted hostile backlashes. In Fear, Anxiety, and National Identity, a distinguished multidisciplinary group of scholars examine whether and how...
Immigration and Citizenship in an Enlarged European Union
The Political Dynamics of Intra-EU Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
A distinctive contribution to the politics of citizenship and immigration in an expanding European Union, this book explains how and why differences arise in responses to immigration by examining local, national and transnational dimensions of public debates on Romanian migrants and the Roma minority in Italy and Spain.
by Grete Brochmann, Anniken Hagelund
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
This book explores the historical development of post-war immigration politics in Norway, Sweden and Denmark from the perspective of the welfare state, examining how welfare states with high ambitions, generous and inclusive welfare schemes and a strong sense of egalitarianism cope with the pressures of immigration and growing diversities.
Welcoming the Stranger
Justice, Compassion & Truth in the Immigration Debate
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
World Relief staffers Matthew Soerens and Jenny Yang move beyond the rhetoric to offer a Christian response to immigration. With careful historical understanding and thoughtful policy analysis, they debunk myths about immigration, show the limits of the current immigration system, and offer concrete ways for you to welcome and minister to your immigrant neighbors.
The Accidental American
Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2008
The Accidental American advocates a bold new approach to immigration: a free international flow of labor to match globalization’s free flow of capital. After all, corporations are encouraged to move anywhere in the world they can maximize their earnings. People shouldn’t have to risk exploitation,...