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International migration and security : opportunities and challenges / edited by Elspeth Guild and Joanne van Selm.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Transnationalism.
- Transnationalism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Immigrants--Government policy.
- Immigrants.
- National security.
- Terrorism--Prevention.
- Terrorism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (299 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Every day newspapers in the Western world carry articles about illegal immigrants, asylum seekers and other migrants. The focus of these articles varies greatly from migrants as a threat to one or another important social or societal interest, to migrants as an important asset to those same interests. The tone is most often emotional - whichever way the focus goes. The overall impact is to confuse: is migration good or bad? In this book Guild and van Selm seek to investigate these value assessments regarding migrants in Europe, the USA, Canada and Australia. While looking at issues such as sec
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Immigration and Regional Security; 2 Rights Spillovers; 3 Human Rights for Immigrants and Immigrants for Human Rights; 4 From Foreigners to 'Abnormal Aliens'; 5 Immigrants and the Host Polity; 6 Cultural and Identity Security; 7 Immigrants, Refugees and Racism; 8 Language and Immigration; 9 Global, National and Local Identities; 10 Immigration and the Welfare State; 11 Migration: A Threat or an Asset to Health?
- 12 Homeownership and the Integration of Immigrants in the United States13 Digestible Difference: Food, Ethnicity and Spatial Claims in the City; 14 Feeding the Festive City; Conclusions; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-33953-4
- 1-134-33954-2
- 0-203-39034-2
- 1-280-14711-3
- 0-203-23658-0
- 9780203236581
- OCLC:
- 252982126
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