This book discusses the demand for migrant labour both conceptually and empirically with a focus on the UK. With the number of migrant workers at a record high, the regulation of labour immigration is one of the most controversial public policy issues in high-income countries. …
"This book examines the ideas, interests, institutions, and rhetoric that have shaped Canada's immigration history." "Beginning their study in the pre-Confederation period, the authors tell of the dramatic transformations that have characterized Canadian attitudes towards immigr…
"This book examines the ideas, interests, institutions, and rhetoric that have shaped Canada's immigration history." "Beginning their study in the pre-Confederation period, the authors tell of the dramatic transformations that have characterized Canadian attitudes towards immigr…
"This book examines the ideas, interests, institutions, and rhetoric that have shaped Canada's immigration history." "Beginning their study in the pre-Confederation period, the authors tell of the dramatic transformations that have characterized Canadian attitudes towards immigr…
The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Here's a storyteller's tale of what they endured in a strange new land.
Examines the causes of European immigration to America prior to World War II and highlights the personalities whose intellectual and artistic achievements have contributed to the nation's culture.
"Globalization is not a new phenomenon, nor is it irreversible. In Globalization and History, Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson present a coherent picture of trade, migration, and international capital flows in the Atlantic economy in the century prior to 1914 - the first gr…
"Borjas presents the most comprehensive, accessible, and up-to-date account yet of the economic impact of recent immigration on America. He reveals that the benefits of immigration have been greatly exaggerated and that, if we allow immigration to continue unabated and unmodifie…
Introduction and Methodology PART I: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND AND COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS Theoretical Framework Comparative Analysis PART II: MIGRATION DISCOURSES AND PRACTICES IN ITALY AND LIBYA Italy and Migration Libya and Migration PART III: EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE BILATERAL AG…
International migration significantly affects relations of power between countries in the North versus those in the South. This book analyses the contested practice of states to shift border control measures outside their territory, i.e. externalisation. Special attention is dev…
"Immigration makes America what it is and is formative for what it will become. America was settled by three different models of immigration, all of which persist to the present. The Virginia Colony largely equated immigration with the arrival of laborers, who had few rights. Ma…
"Immigration makes America what it is and is formative for what it will become. America was settled by three different models of immigration, all of which persist to the present. The Virginia Colony largely equated immigration with the arrival of laborers, who had few rights. Ma…
