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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Immigration Legislation"”.
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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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Relationship Goals: A Social Network Analysis of the Relationships between Bill Sponsors and Cosponsors on Immigration Legislation from 1973-2016
… relationships between members of Congress on all immigration bills introduced between 1973 and 2016. The results indicate that there was a higher likelihood of bipartisanship on bills introduced until the mid-1990s when copartisanship was the predominate form of ties to present. In the second …
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Immigrant inflows and public goods provision
… studies the driving forces of state anti-illegal immigration legislation passed since 2005, focusing on a district's demographic structure. To accomplish this, I compile a novel dataset of legislative-district-level characteristics and match these data to votes on individual bills from each …
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u.s. Immigration in the 1970's: Settlement Patterns and Processes
… (1) to evaluate whether major United States immigration legislation has been used as a means of alleviating domestic labor shortages; (2) to assess the effect of emigration on the economic development of origin countries; (3) to document and explain the immigrant settlement pattern within the …
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Protection of Borders or Protection of Women? Recently arrived immigrant women in the UK, violence and immigration policies
… This focus allows an evaluation of current UK immigration legislation and it’s impact, if any, on ‘victims’ of violence. In order to accomplish this a feminist and human rights consciousness is utilised. The research considers men’s use of violence and exploitation as a potential form of …
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Service and Citizenship: Examining the Historical Relationship between Immigration and Military Service in the United States
… rights of citizenship. I begin with a history of immigration and military service, throughout American history. I particularly concentrate on World War II, a pivotal moment for immigration and the military. I will then cover the historiography that informed my research. I include some research on …
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The Erotic Work of Asian American Activism: Harnessing Kink, Queer, and Sex Worker Praxis
… parlors in Atlanta, Georgia in 2021 to historic immigration legislation such as the Page Act of 1875 that enshrined hypersexualized racism. The paper then analyzes the role of race and racial representation in the history of the BDSM (Bondage/Dominance, Dominance/Submission, and Sadomasochism) …
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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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SHIFTING DREAMS: INTERSECTIONS OF THE RHETORICAL IMAGINATION OF U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY AND THE WRITING PRACTICES OF DREAMERS
… is at once the most comprehensive progressive immigration legislation and a heavily weighted document that further marginalizes migrants through those four problem areas. I employ various frameworks to examine the intersections between the discriminatory rhetoric of the DREAM Act and the …
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Barriers to gender-based violence care: a qualitative study of migrant and refugee women
… xenophobia and increasingly restrictive immigration legislation, have limited this population's access to care. The study aims to explore the barriers encountered by female migrants when accessing care services following experiences of GBV. This qualitative, exploratory study was …
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Migrants access to the labour market and ethnic niching: case study of Zimbabweans employed in the Cape Town restaurant industry
… the state of the local labour market and the immigration legislation. It was found that it is beneficial to use theory in conjunction with the case context and immigrant characteristics. Thus a multidimensional approach focusing on job search methods, social and family networks, …
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Essays on the economic and political effects of immigration
… chapter, I show that political opposition to immigration can arise even when immigrants bring significant economic prosperity to receiving areas. I exploit exogenous variation in European immigration to US cities between 1910 and 1930 induced by World War I and the Immigration Acts of the …
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Merchant Seamen, Sailortowns, and the Shaping of U.S. Citizenship, 1843-1945
… emerging alongside restrictive and exclusionary immigration legislation from 1917-1936, and the alien seamen immigration raids that took place in New York in 1931.</p> <p>The dissertation concludes by addressing the question of how merchant seamen responded to the Great Depression through the …
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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 …