International migration and human rights : the global repercussions of U.S. policy / edited by Samuel Martinez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martinez, Samuel, Author.

Contributor:

Martínez, Samuel, 1959-

Series:

Global, area, and international archive.

Global, area, and international archive

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Emigration and immigration.

Immigrants--Civil rights.

Immigrants.

Immigrants--Civil rights--United States.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

United States.

United States--Foreign relations--1989-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A multidisciplinary group of scholars examines how the actions of the United States as a global leader are worsening pressures on people worldwide to migrate, while simultaneously degrading migrant rights. Uniting such diverse issues as market reform, drug policy, and terrorism under a common framework of human rights, the book constitutes a call for a new vision on immigration.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Political Economy of Migration in an Era of Globalization

2. Ports of Entry in the "Homeland Security" Era: Inequality of Mobility and the Securitization of Transnational Flows

3. The Treatment of Noncitizens after September 11 in Historical Context

4. Mexicans of Mass Destruction: National Security and Mexican Immigration in a Pre- and Post-9/11 World

5. The Demonization of Persons of Arab and Muslim Ancestry in Historical Perspective

6. Security and Insecurity in a Global "War on Terrorism": Arab-Muslim Immigrant Experience in Post-9/11 America

7. Policing the Borders in the Heartland

8. An Anatomy of Mexican Repatriation: Human Rights and the Borderlands of Complicity

9. Discourses on Danger and Dreams of Prosperity: Confounding U.S. Government Positions on "Trafficking" from the Former Soviet Union

10. "We Are Not Terrorists!" Uighurs, Tibetans, and the "Global War on Terror"

11. The Impact of Plan Colombia on Forced Displacement

12. Challenging U.S. Silence: International NGOs and the Iraqi Refugee Crisis

Conclusion

Afterword: Migration, Human Rights, and Development

Notes

References

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9780520942578

0520942574

OCLC:

808601089