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Borders and belonging / Hiroshi Motomura.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Motomura, Hiroshi, 1953- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emigration and immigration.
- Boundaries.
- Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
- Immigrants.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (208 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- Hiroshi Motomura offers a complex and fair-minded account of immigration, its root causes, and the varying responses to it. Taking stock of the issue's complexity, while giving credence to the opinions of immigration critics, he tackles a series of important questions that, when answered, will move us closer to a more realistic and sustainable immigration policy.
- Contents:
- Why National Borders, and Why Not?
- What Are Better Responses to Forced Migration?
- Who can say that they belong?
- Who Should Get In, and Be Kept Out?
- Should Newcomers Stay Temporarily or Indefinitely?
- What About People Without Lawful Status?
- What Should Enforcement Do, and Not Do?
- How Can We Take Skeptics Seriously, and Why?
- What Does It Mean to Address Migration's Root Causes?
- What's the Big Picture?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 18, 2024).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-774373-0
- 0-19-774375-7
- 0-19-774374-9
- OCLC:
- 1474243070
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