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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Immigration control"”.
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Public Law and Immigration Justice
What roles have lawyers played in the British immigration system? Have these roles made the system more just? This thesis tackles these questions by focusing on the doctrines and ideas of public law. Chapter 2 discusses 19th-century legal debates about immigration practices of the British colonies. …
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UK Immigration Policy and the Welfare of Children Seeking Asylum
… discourse that is focussed on problematizing immigration control and a 'managed migration' agenda. In response there is an emerging body of predominantly NGO commissioned and England based literature that tends to focus upon the incongruence of immigration control with children's psychosocial …
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Punishing the poor again?: irregularity, the 'criminalisation of migration' and precarious labour markets in the UK and Germany
The increasingly punitive nature of immigration control across the Western world and the overrepresentation of foreign nationals in European prisons has revitalised criminological interest in issues of migration. Alessandro De Giorgi (2010: 153) and others contend that restrictive, 'illegalising' …
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Voices of Latino/a immigrants in southeast Michigan: Beyond the criminal/Victim dichotomy
… thought, this study illuminates the history of immigration policy and discourse in America and the Latino community’s knowledge and expertise about life as an undocumented Latino immigrant in Southeast Michigan. The development of increasingly restrictive immigration policies is traced, paying …
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Impact of a Pandemic on Attitudes towards Immigrants
<p>Immigration control is an issue that figures prominently in public policy discussions and election campaigns throughout the world. Immigrants can be perceived as posing both realistic and symbolic threats to the host society. During the current global pandemic, these threats are amplified. This …
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The deported: how the forcibly removed are treated in their country of origin – evidence from Ghana
… practice of deportation has gained prominence in immigration policies, forming a crucial part of the immigration control armoury of many European and industrialised states. Some politicians across the political spectrum in these states often stoke xenophobic sentiments among sections of their …
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Refugee Status Determination in South Africa: A systematic literature review
… 1998. However, overtime newer and more stringent immigration policy, pervasive maladministration, and corruption have all contributed to an increase in clandestine migration into the country. These highlighted issues faced in the Refugee Status Determination Process have long been associated with …
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Seeking a Safe Space: Violence, Bureaucracy, and Citizenship in the Lives of Migrants in the United States
… violence and sexual assault advocacy alongside immigration legal services, a place I call Safe Space. I argue that despite the commitment and efforts demonstrated by both Safe Space staff and female migrants, the immigration programs and policies designed to support these women do not entirely …
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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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The Story of Our Journey
… during extensive travels, border crossings and immigration control, and integration into a new community. However, the resultant textual counterpoint among the interviewees is only one layer of semantic and musical interaction. The clarinet, synthesizers, and electronic processing 1) mimic the …
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Associative activism : organizing support for foreign workers in contemporary Japan
… rooted in Japanese government policies. The 1990 Immigration Control Law created a category of illegal foreign workers. Later, the Ministry of Health and Welfare excluded illegal foreigners from Japan's insurance system. Illegal foreign workers face challenges in dealing with employers, state …
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Gatekeepers of the Family : Regulating Family Migration to Finland
… The relationship between family norms and immigration control is mutually co-constitutive: while policymakers and bureaucrats rely on publicly accepted and common-sense understandings of acceptable family life, at the same time they themselves contribute to constructing these norms. The …
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Immigration in a Global Economy: Why the Left Should Embrace Open Borders
… explores the implications of discretionary control over immigration policies, arguing that the class-based selection that it facilitates plays a vital role in constructing and maintaining issues of global and domestic injustice. High-income countries have the authority and power to decide, …
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(Im)mobility, digital technologies and transnational spaces of belonging: an ethnographic study of Somali migrants in Cape Town
… a parallel rise in global trends towards anti-immigration, control of identities and fear of difference, which have manifested in South African society. This dissertation concludes that a combination of legal frameworks related to migrants and refugees, public infrastructures and cultural …