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The Immigration Act of 1952; A Case Study in Political Sociology
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Progressive Paradox in Political Rhetoric: The Hart-Celler Immigration Act of 1965
… and concretized through political discourse and action.</p> <p>These dynamics are demonstrated in a case study of the discourse surrounding the Hart-Celler Immigration Act of 1965, a landmark bill that claimed to end racial discrimination in immigration policy. Through an analysis of the …
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An Archaeological Analysis of Canadian Immigration Legislation: From Welfare State Liability to Neo-Liberal Subject
… the three most recent pieces of Canadian immigration legislation: the Immigration Act of 1952, the Immigration Act of 1976, and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act of 2001 (herein referred to collectively as the documents). The intent is to contribute to the archaeology of …
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From Persecution to Detention: A reflection on the non-application of Article 31(1) of the 1951 Refugee Convention on asylum seekers in Zambia
… and exit of persons in Zambia, these are the Immigration and Deportation Act No. 18 of 2010 (hereinafter referred to as the Immigration Act) and the Refugees Act No. 1 of 2017 (hereinafter the Refugees Act). Although these two pieces of legislation apply to different types of migrants, there …
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Exploring the impact of South Africa's immigration policy (2000-to 2006) on the medical doctors' shortage—a critical realist perspective
… of reliance of foreign skills known as skilled immigration. The government and the national Department of Health (DoH) have implemented a variety of intervention measures in order to alleviate the negative impact of this shortage caused by medical skills shortage in the sector. However, the …
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20,000 Fewer: The Wagner-Rogers Bill and the Jewish Refugee Crisis
… the United States's government's strict immigration laws and allow persecuted children to come to the United States and live in American homes. The Wagner-Rogers Bill, named for Senator Robert Wagner of New York and Representative Edith Rogers of Massachusetts and introduced in February …
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Discourses of Disability and Sexuality: Barriers to Sexual Citizenship
… that prevent disabled people from being sexually active citizens. I begin my looking to the historical, political, and cultural construction of disabled people’s sexuality as a problem. Next, I take a cross-cultural perspective. I provide a cultural history of disability and sexuality in 20th …
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Clothing acculturation history of Korean immigrants: 1903-1950
… as a result of continuous firsthand contact between the cultural group to which he or she belongs and another cultural group". The Purpose of this research is to discover and present the clothing acculturation process of the early Korean immigrants. On January, 1903, 101 Koreans first …
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LIKE A DUCK ON WATER: CHINESE ACADEMIC MIGRANTS IN THE U.S. AND THEIR SUBURBAN WEEKEND CHINESE SCHOOL
… jobs and suburban residences. After the Immigration Act of 1990, many of them have become visible experts in science and engineering. Yet their struggles as Chinese academic migrants simultaneously privileged by their educational backgrounds and disadvantaged by their outsider status in …
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Immigration, Anti-Terrorism and Islam: Capitalist State Control of Muslim Populations in Contemporary Britain
… provides a Marxist analysis of New Labour's immigration and antiterrorism policy. The analysis focuses on the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 and the Nationality and Immigration Act 2002. The introduction of these two pieces of legislation came as part of New Labour's response to …
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Transnationalizing Indian education: Diasporic networks, politics and participation
… the center of my inquiry. The entry of non-state actors and capital flows in Indian education provides a broader context to situate the three diasporic organizations I study: Asha for Education, Pratham-USA, and Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation. The three organizations are involved in supporting a range …
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The Criminalisation of Asylum Seekers: Arbitrary Detention in South Africa
… African continent. South Africa’s post-apartheid immigration and refugee system were based on a human-rights approach and aimed at creating a culture of inclusion and tolerance. Despite a progressive Refugee Act, the most prominent aspect of the South African asylum system is its use of arbitrary …
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Narrators, Navigators and Negotiators: Foreign Service Officer Life Stories from Canada's Africa Refugee Resettlement Program, 1970 to 1990
… a hitherto under-represented part of Canada's immigration history. The research argues that the context and conditions of refugee selection can be more fully understood by explaining: the material and ideational structures within which the officers (hearers) navigated; the many types of …
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Open hearts, closed doors : native Protestants, pluralism, and the "foreigner" in America, 1924-1965.
… Council of Churches, also promoted immigration policy reform. During the four decades following the restrictive Immigration Act of 1924, progressive Protestants worked to overturn Asian exclusion and, by the 1950s, to challenge discriminatory quotas against eastern and southern …
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An examination of bureaucratic Home Office systems relating to mixed immigration-status families, including the use of Section 55 (Borders, Immigration and Citizenship Act, 2009): a mixed methods study
… children when their parents are detained under immigration powers. Very little is published in this field, and what is published, explores the existence and frequency of parental immigration detention in the UK. Family courts safeguard and prioritise the parental relationship, with children …
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The householder defence in Canada and England and Wales: between proportionality and penal populism
… sections 34 and 35 in 2012. This reform was enacted by Bill C-26: The Citizen's Arrest and Self-defence Act and positioned the householder defence as unanchored and undifferentiated from the general law of self-defence. In E&W, reform of the householder defence was done through the Crime and …
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Sesotho immigrant minority group and language rights in South Africa: a case study
… the linguistic rights of minority groups, their actual implementation may be inconsistent. The accessibility of qualified Sesotho mediators is irregular, and their capability levels change, influencing the constancy of interpretation and levels of understanding during court procedures. The …
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Korean emergent bilingual students’ language use and translanguaging
… to examine bilinguals’ translanguaging practices when they utilized their full language resources from their two languages (e.g., Bauer, Presiado, & Colomer, 2017; García & Godina, 2017; Palmer, Martínez, Mateus, & Henderson, 2014). However, because most of the translanguaging research has …