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. Mas…
The immigration policies of France have led to very widespread burnings of automobiles and rioting. Its millions of Arab citizens with their high birth rates and high unemployment rates have reached the level of ignition. This book examines those policies themselves as well as F…
This volume traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in US immigration policy - a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race and state authority in t…
In the context of the growing politicization of migration a debate has emerged in policy and academia on the need to develop global governance on migration to facilitate better inter-state cooperation. This book provides an introduction to the institutions, politics, and normati…
