"This book challenges the "model minority" stereotype of Asian American students as a critical step toward educating all children well. Focusing on Korean American youth in New York City schools, Jamie Lew compares high-achieving students attending an elite magnet high school wi…
In the current political context, immigration law is being addressed primarily as a security issue. Gender is addressed as an issue from the State's perspective, leading to restrictive policies. This book analyzes and evaluates current devlopments in immigration law in Europe fr…
In the current political context, immigration law is being addressed primarily as a security issue. Gender is addressed as an issue from the State's perspective, leading to restrictive policies. This book analyzes and evaluates current devlopments in immigration law in Europe fr…
The Series is a venue for books on European immigration and asylum law and policies where academics, policy makers, law practitioners and others look to find detailed analysis of this dynamic field. Works in the series will start from a European perspective. The increased co-ope…
This intriguing book looks at issues of immigration, postmodern identity and difference through the lives of South Asians in Britain.
An exploration of ethnic minority cultural change, this text examines first- and second-generation middle-class South Asian families living in London. It argues that the nostalgia for culture obscures the complexities of change in migrant minority lives.
"When we think of illegal immigrants, we typically think about people from developing countries - Mexico, El Salvador, Peru, Pakistan, Nigeria - entering developed countries - the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France, Germany. According to conventional wisdom, those who …
Acknowledgements. List of Acronyms. Introduction: A Paradox: Illegal Immigrants As Citizens. Part 1: The Process. 1. Searching for Illegal Immigrants. 2. Networks of Complicity. 3. Blurred Membership. 4. Documentary Citizenship. Part II: The Proof. 5. Voters Across Borders. 6. T…
"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,…
