Born out of place Constable, Nicole
2014., 20140404, 2014, 2014-03-14
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Hong Kong is a meeting place for migrant domestic workers, traders, refugees, asylum seekers, tourists, businessmen, and local residents. In Born Out of Place, Nicole Constable looks at the ...experiences of Indonesian and Filipina women in this Asian world city. Giving voice to the stories of these migrant mothers, their South Asian, African, Chinese, and Western expatriate partners, and their Hong Kong–born babies, Constable raises a serious question: Do we regard migrants as people, or just as temporary workers? This accessible ethnography provides insight into global problems of mobility, family, and citizenship and points to the consequences, creative responses, melodramas, and tragedies of labor and migration policies.
In a New Land Foner, Nancy
2005, 2005-08-01, 20050101
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2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title!
According to the 2000 census, more than 10% of U.S. residents were foreign born; together with their American-born children, this group constitutes one fifth ...of the nation's population. What does this mass immigration mean for America? Leading immigration studies scholar, Nancy Foner, answers this question in her study of comparative immigration. Drawing on the rich history of American immigrants and current statistical and ethnographic data, In a New Land compares today’s new immigrants with the past influxes of Europeans to the United States and across cities and regions within the United States. Foner looks at immigration across nation-states, and over different periods of time, offering a comprehensive assessment and analysis.
This original approach to the study of recent U.S. immigration focuses on race and ethnicity, gender, and transnational connections. Centering her analysis on the groups that have come through and significantly shaped New York City, Foner compares today’s Latin American, Asian, and Caribbean newcomers with eastern and southern European immigrants a century ago and with immigrants in other major U.S. cities. Looking beyond the United States, Foner compares West Indian immigrants in New York with those in London. And, more generally, the book views the process of immigrants' integration in New York against other recent immigrant destinations in Europe.
Drawing on a wealth of historical and contemporary research, and written in a clear and lively style, In a New Land provides fresh insights into the dynamics of immigration today and the implications for where we are headed in the future.
What happens to a country when its skilled workers emigrate? The first book to examine the complex economic, social, and political effects of emigration on India, Diaspora, Development, and Democracy ...provides a conceptual framework for understanding the repercussions of international migration on migrants' home countries.
A través de una serie de entrevistas e investigación de campo, este trabajo examina el fenómeno de la inmigración coreana en Argentina en las últimas décadas, destacando sus aristas culturales, que ...constituyen nuevas formas de desmontar la identidad argentina tradicional entendida como "blanca" o "europea". Se analizan también las distintas actitudes de coreanos y descendientes de coreanos en Argentina, así como las de argentinos, y específicamente porteños, en la construcción mutua de imaginarios colectivos que se muestran más porosos a la alteridad que las identidades originarias (y no menos imaginarias) de las que parten. Through a series of interviews and field investigations, this work examines the phenomenon of Korean immigration in Argentina in the last decades, highlighting the cultural aspects which constitute new ways of dismantling the traditional Argentinean identity as "white" or "European." The paper also analyzes the distinct attitudes of Korean and Korean descendents in Argentina, as well as those of Argentineans—and especially porteños—in the construction of mutual collective imaginarles. These have proven to be more porous to the alterity than the native identities (which are no less imaginary) on which they are based.
Distinguishing population processes by external monitoring Jakeman, E.; Hopcraft, K. I.; Matthews, J. O.
Proceedings of the Royal Society. A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences,
03/2003, Volume:
459, Issue:
2031
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
We investigate the statistical and correlation properties of two stochastic population models that give rise to identical first-order probability densities. We assume that the processes are monitored ...indirectly through measurement of the rate at which individuals emigrate from the population. Formulae characterizing the integrated statistics of these counting processes are derived, and it is shown how they may be used to distinguish the population models.
Delegating Responsibility explores the politics of migration in the European Union and explains how the EU responded to the 2015–17 refugee crisis. Based on 86 interviews and fieldwork in Greece and ...Italy, Nicholas R. Micinski proposes a new theory of international cooperation on international migration. States approach migration policies in many ways—such as coordination, collaboration, subcontracting, and unilateralism—but which policy they choose is based on capacity and on credible partners on the ground. Micinski traces the fifty-year evolution of EU migration management, like border security and asylum policies, and shows how EU officials used “crises” as political leverage to further Europeanize migration governance. In two in-depth case studies, he explains how Italy and Greece responded to the most recent refugee crisis. He concludes with a discussion of policy recommendations regarding contemporary as well as long-term aspirations for migration management in the EU.
Although ambivalence characterizes the stance of scholars toward the desirability of close opinion-policy linkages in general, it is especially evident with regard to immigration. The controversy and ...disagreement about whether public opinion should drive immigration policy are among the factors making immigration one of the most difficult political debates across the West. Leading international experts and aspiring researchers from the fields of political science and sociology use a range of case studies from North America, Europe and Australia to guide the reader through the complexities of this debate offering an unprecedented comparative examination of public opinion and immigration.
part one discusses the socio-economic and contextual determinants of immigration attitudes across multiple nations
part two explores how the economy can affect public opinion
part three presents different perspectives on the issue of causality - do attitudes about immigration drive politics, or do politics drive attitudes?
part four investigates how several types of framing are critical to understanding public opinion and how a wide range of political factors can mould public opinion, and often in ways that work against immigration and immigrants
part five examines the views of the largest immigrant group in the U.S. - Latinos - as well as how opinions are shaped by contact with and opinions about immigrants in the U.S. and Canada.
An essential read to all who wish to understand the nature of immigration research from a theoretical as well as practical point of view.
Les migrations transsahariennes sont replacées dans le cadre des contextes de la mobilité historique, des évolutions des politiques internationales d’accueil des migrants et de la réactivation des ...routes transsahariennes. Les fondements des dynamiques migratoires sont d’abord explorés à travers l’ancienneté des courants migratoires puis au travers de leurs soubassements sociaux. L’évolution des migrations nous amène ensuite à replacer le volume des migrations africaines dans le contexte international et à analyser les politiques. La variété et les réorientations des itinéraires migratoires rendent complexes les suivis des migrations. En Afrique comme en Europe, les espaces d’accueil des migrants sont de plus en plus difficiles d’accès. La mise en place de politiques plus restrictives va à l’encontre de la fluidité traditionnelle, oblige à de nouvelles stratégies et renforce les courants de migrations illégales. Le Nord du Mali, espace de grande pauvreté, est à la fois un pôle d’émigration et un espace de transit incontournable. Les conditions de traversée du désert sont épouvantables. Les villes sahéliennes de Gao et de Tombouctou sont des portes migratoires mais l’ambition est d’en faire des nœuds de structuration de l’espace. Elles sont à la fois des points de transit et dotées d’une histoire urbaine prestigieuse qui pourrait leur redonner des avantages décisifs, dans le cadre d’un développement local bien pensé.
Mexico and the United States exist in a symbiotic relationship: Mexico frequently provides the United States with cheap labor, illegal goods, and, for criminal offenders, a refuge from the law. In ...turn, the U.S. offers Mexican laborers the American dream: the possibility of a better livelihood through hard work. To supply each other's demands, Americans and Mexicans have to cross their shared border from both sides. Despite this relationship, U.S. immigration reform debates tend to be security-focused and center on the idea of menacing Mexicans heading north to steal abundant American resources. Further, Congress tends to approach reform unilaterally, without engaging with Mexico or other feeder countries, and, disturbingly, without acknowledging problematic southern crossings that Americans routinely make into Mexico. In Run for the Border, Steven W. Bender offers a framework for a more comprehensive border policy through a historical analysis of border crossings, both Mexico to U.S. and U.S. to Mexico. In contrast to recent reform proposals, this book urges reform as the product of negotiation and implementation by cross-border accord; reform that honors the shared economic and cultural legacy of the U.S. and Mexico. Covering everything from the history of Anglo crossings into Mexico to escape law authorities, to vice tourism and retirement in Mexico, to today's focus on Mexican border-crossing immigrants and drug traffickers, Bender takes lessons from the past 150 years to argue for more explicit and compassionate cross-border cooperation. Steeped in several disciplines, Run for the Border is a blend of historical, cultural, and legal perspectives, as well as those from literature and cinema, that reflect Bender's cultural background and legal expertise.
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