Controlling Immigration
A Global Perspective
Published on 1. December 1994
Book
Hardback
456 pages
978-0-8047-2497-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a systematic, comparative, multidisciplinary study of immigration policy and policy outcomes in nine industrialised democracies: the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain, and Japan. It has two central theses. The first, the 'convergence hypothesis', is that there is a growing similarity in immigration policy, results, and public reaction within these nine countries. The second thesis, the 'gap hypothesis', argues that the gap between the goals of immigration policy and its outcomes is wide and growing wider. Beyond testing these hypotheses against new evidence, the book seeks to explain the declining effectiveness of immigration control measures in today's labour-importing democracies. In each of the country profiles, the author explains why certain measures were chosen, and why they usually failed to achieve their stated objectives.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Palo Alto
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
appendix
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
766 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8047-2497-5 (9780804724975)
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11/2004
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Stanford University Press
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Content
PART I. INTRODUCTION; 1. Introduction. WAYNE A. CORNELIUS, PHILIP L. MARTIN, AND JAMES F. HOLLIFIELD; PART II. COUNTRIES OF IMMIGRATION: THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA; 2. U.S. Immigration and policy responses: the limits of legislation. KITTY CALAVITA; 3. The United States: benign neglect toward immigration. PHILIP L. MARTIN; 4. Canada: flexibility and control in immigration and refugee policy. MANUEL GARCjA Y GRIEGO; PART III. RELUCTANT COUNTRIES OF IMMIGRATION: FRANCE, GERMANY, BELGIUM, BRITAIN; 5. Immigration and republicanism in France: the hidden consensus. JAMES F. HOLLIFIELD; 6. Germany: reluctant land of immigration. PHILIP L. MARTIN. 7. Anxious neighbors: Belgium and its immigrant minorities. MARCELO M. SUgREZ-OROZCO; 8. Britain: the would-be-zero-immig ration country. ZIG LAYTON-HENRY; PART IV. LATECOMERS TO IMMIGRATION: ITALY, SPAIN, AND JAPAN; 9. Italy and the new immigration. KITTY CALAVITA; 10. Spain: the uneasy transition from labour exporter to labour importer. WAYNE A. CORNELIUS; 11. Japan: the illusion of immigration 'control'. WAYNE A. CORNELIUS; PART V. STATISTICAL APPENDIX