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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Immigration Law"”.
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Mapping the denial of space : Latinos and United States immigration law
Immigration legal spaces such as courtrooms and national borders are constructed by the geopolitical tensions that exist between U.S. nationalism and foreign bodies traversing its territory. Mexican, Guatemalan, Salvadorian, and Hondurans—referred to as Latinos in this research—constitute nearly …
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U.S. immigration law: children as a unifying means to immigration reform
<p>This thesis seeks to evaluate U.S. immigration law and policy in light of their observable impact on children. My purpose is to review and assess the efficacy of current family reunification law specifically as regards minors: its clarity or ambiguity, consistency in application, and its effects …
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Law Without Recognition: The Lack of Judicial Discretion to Consider Individual Lives and Legal Equities in United States Immigration Law
<p>Law is not separate and apart from society but exists as a unique institution within society both being directed by social change and affecting social change. The history of U.S. immigration law shows that immigrants were welcomed or rejected depending on economic, political, and social factors …
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The Mexican Power to Expel Aliens in Light of Its International Limitations and the Dimensional Theory of Law : with Some Comparative References to U.S. Immigration Law)
… aliens is one of the two fundamental pillars of immigration law. To be sure, the other is the power of the host State to admit them into its territory. The expulsion of aliens might inflict an enormous harm not only upon them but also upon other persons, e.g., their family members. When aliens …
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Obtaining Legal Status in the United States: Undocumented Latinas Near Chicago and the Strategic Use of Mental Health
Caught between abusive partners and restrictive immigration law, many undocumented Latina women are vulnerable to domestic violence in the United States. This thesis analyzes the U-Visa application process experienced by undocumented immigrant crime victims and their legal advisors in a suburb of …
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Spanish leadership in developing a 'common' European immigration policy: Intergovernmentalist supranationalization approach
… EXAMINE THE DEVELOPMENT OF A "COMMON" EUROPEAN IMMIGRATION POLICY (SINCE THE 1980S) WITHIN THE LINES OF TWO MAJOR EUROPEAN INTEGRATION THEORIES: INTERGOVERNMENTALISM AND SUPRANATIONALISM. APPLICATION OF ANDREW MORAVCSIK'S LIBERAL INTERGOVERNMENTALIST APPROACH TO THE CASE STUDY OF THE SPANISH …
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States of discretion: Black migrating bodies and citizenship in the United States
… in the construction and implementation of U.S. immigration law such that institutions of higher education in the United States now function as de facto extension offices of the Department of Homeland Security. Historically situating the changes wrought by the Immigration and Nationality Act of …
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The Legislature in Immigration Policy-Making: A Liberal Constraint?
Over the last thirty years, research on the immigration policy-making of liberal democratic states has been preoccupied with the puzzle of why migrant inflows have reached unprecedented levels in Western countries, despite popular calls for restrictionism. A common response of scholars to this …
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The Neoliberal Construction of Immigration as Crisis
… Americans have been concerned with immigration, with a particular emphasis on Mexican immigration arising toward the end of the twentieth century. The purpose of this research is to question the framing of current immigration patterns as crises and argue that they are better …
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A Portrait of Chinese Americans: From the Perspective of Assimilation
… United States has been shaped by four waves of immigration, and unlike previous waves, in the past 50 years immigrants have come from Latin America and Asia more than other regions of the world. Chinese immigration is the focus of this thesis. Chinese people have been present in this society …
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Muslim Women on the Catholic Campus: The Search for Identity, Community, and Understanding
… diversity has expanded since the 1960s when immigration law changed the geographical map of our immigrant pipeline from Europe to Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (Smith, 2002). This demographic change in immigration patterns has affected the population of students not only coming from …
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American sanctuary : architecture & (in)justice
… has a long history of harsh and discriminatory immigration policies, which has often been in tension with those who believe in the nation's promise to take in the "tired, . . . poor, . . . huddled masses." This tension has led to a growing Sanctuary Movement across the country, as people have …
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“Neither Colorblind, Neutral, nor Meritocratic”: A Critical Examination of South Korea’s E-2 Visa Policy Through the Lens of the Excluded
… racial and linguistic hierarchies through immigration law (Jenks, 2017). This dissertation addresses how the policy functions as a gatekeeping mechanism that privileges Western educators while excluding qualified teachers from outer and expanding circle countries, postcolonial contexts …
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Law and Rights in the Lives of Undocumented Migrant Women in the UK
… state has introduced increasingly restrictive immigration legislation in recent years, as part of an effort to create a hostile environment for undocumented migrants. For instance, the 2014 and 2016 Immigration Acts further criminalise working without papers, renting property, and driving as an …
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Closing “The Mediterranean Cemetry”: whether the European agenda on migration (immediate action) aimed at curbing the Africa-EU migration “crisis” is International Law compliant?
… migration “crisis” complies with international law. The thesis commences by arguing that migration today is a bastion of state sovereignty though fettered to a very limited extent by human rights, international law and states’ inter-dependence. The thesis then discusses the right to asylum and …
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US Labor Demand: a Discourse Analysis on the "Hidden Force" behind Illegal Immigration
The dominant ideology within the illegal immigration discourse in the US primarily faults illegal workers for the problem by highlighting the act of illegally entering the US as the origin of the problem. As the dominant ideology goes, illegal immigrants evade law enforcement at the border; they …
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Exile and Home: Narrative Identity in the Central American Community of the San Francisco Bay Area
… workshops, 2) a call for reform of United States immigration law and policy, 3) a call for communicative action on an international level.</p> <p>The interpretation of the narratives of immigrants following critical hermeneutic protocol can also be useful to individuals who work with immigrants, …
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Transcending Borders: The Experience of Six Undocumented Immigrant Mothers in the United States
… stigmatized by the media, are criminalized by immigration law and exploited by their employers. Historically, children originating from immigrant homes have not been successful in American schools. Educational research has detailed this historical failure in the literature; however there is …
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The crossroad : experiences of non-EU/EEA international Masters students in their last year of study in the UK
… while abroad, and could be exacerbated by immigration laws. Thus, the crossroad can be a phase of psychological struggle, which can be of interest to mental health professionals. There is limited qualitative evidence on this sub-phase of CS on IS and this research attempts to address this …
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