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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"illegal immigrants"”.
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Estimating Penalties for Violating the Minimum Wage and Hiring Illegal Immigrants: The Case of the U.S. Apparel Manufacturing Industry
… Standards Act of 1938 and the ban on hiring illegal immigrants under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. The purpose of the present research was to estimate minimum penalties that would provide no monetary incentive for the average U.S. apparel manufacturing firm to violate the …
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From the lucky land to the beautiful country: Illegal immigration of Fujianese to the United States
… body of research, the life of Fujianese illegal immigrants has not been systematically explored. This study confirmed that people smuggling is a phenomenon that combines cultural, economic, and political factors. Furthermore, Fujianese who came to seek an American dream have lost …
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Immigration and Construction: An Analysis of the Impact of Immigration on Construction Project Costs
There are an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants currently residing in the United States. The construction industry is heavily dependent on immigrant labor, legal and illegal, for production. The construction industry, nationally, employs approximately 1,000,000 illegal immigrants; almost one …
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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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Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Immigration Policy: How 9/11 Transformed the Debate Over Illegal Immigration
… laws and policies that relate to legal and illegal immigration with Mexico. It is easily substantiated that thousands of Americans have died at the hands of illegal immigrants from Mexico through criminal activity in the United States or through illegal drug trafficking. This thesis …
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Income Inequality and Prejudice in the US
… non-racial low-status groups (homosexuals and illegal immigrants). The results are discussed in the context of group position theory (Blumer, 1958) and the Black exceptionalism hypothesis (Sears & Savalei, 2006). Whites' attitudes towards Blacks are deeply embedded into American political and …
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Territories of belonging: Citizenship and everyday practices of the state in Bodoland
… of Citizens, a process designed to identify illegal immigrants from neighbouring Bangladesh. I attempt to unpack the role of the state in the shaping of this relationship, looking at routine practices, as well as the ways in which the state represents itself in ordinary settings.
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Contemporary perceptions of music piracy in South Africa
… people are not able to operate the internet for illegal downloading of music, a certain percentage still turn to pirating music for sustenance. Also, a substantial number of illegal immigrants, seeking jobs in South Africa, add to the statistics of music infringement.
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The immigration challenge: the use of U.S. Military Force to control illegal immigration from Mexico
Controlling illegal immigration into the United States has become a major issue in U.S. politics. A February 1997 report released by the INS estimates that there are currently 5 million illegal aliens in the United States. In 1986, when the estimated number of illegal aliens was also 5 million …
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PREJUDICE TOWARD MUSLIM AMERICANS AND AMERICAN PUBLIC OPINION
… as blacks, Latinos, Asians, Jews, homosexuals, illegal immigrants, and people on welfare are prejudiced against Muslims as well. I find evidence that attitudes toward the Band of Others are highly stable and not radically altered by dramatic events. The ethnocentric structure that explains …
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Seeking solidarity : categorisation and the politics of alienism in the migration of Zimbabweans to South Africa
… categorisation by the South African state as "illegal immigrants." Based on fieldwork carried out in Harare and Cape Town in 2006 and 2007, it explores the effects of state-based categorisation of people within Zimbabwe on migration. The study argues that migrants had often been multiply …
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Irish Institutional Discourses of Illegal Immigration: A Critical Discourse Analysis Approach
This dissertation examines illegal immigration in the Irish context. Its principal aim is to investigate how illegal immigration was responded to and discursively represented in Irish institutional texts between 2002 and 2009. An analysis of institutional texts can cast light upon how power …
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"Speaking others, practicing selves: Power, identity, and communications in ""Apna Ghar"" (Our Home)"
… as ""shameless"" or ""dishonorable wives,"" ""immigrants,"" and ""illegal immigrants."" The project also examines how immigrant women in the context of domestic violence resist and transform both patriarchal power and the power of the American social order by reconstructing their identities as …
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The Lived Experiences of Nurses' Interactions with Ethnically Diverse Clients: A Phenomenological Perspective
… because of the ongoing influx of legal and illegal immigrants from diverse foreign geographic locales. Van Kaam's method for conducting phenomenological studies was employed for data gathering, categorizing and analyzing. Categories were stated in terms of perceptions and feelings. The most …
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POSSIBLE LINKAGES BETWEEN TRADE RESTRICTIONS AND WORKPLACE SAFETY
… large supply of labor, e.g., from an influx of illegal immigrants, trade restrictions may be imposed to help influence a country to reinforce working conditions, in compliance with the ILO and/or the country's labor legislation, by raising the injury tax rate and/or level of safety inspection. …
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Protection of the right of asylum-seeking children not to be unlawfully detained: a look into the laws of Botswana
… children, be held at the Francistown Centre for Illegal Immigrants pending transfer to the Dukwi Refugee Camp if their application for refugee status is successful or deportation if unsuccessful. Botswana is therefore notorious for detaining asylum seekers including children for prolonged …
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Negotiation of migratory and educational strategies of Polish families in Athens
… they struggle to deal with the increased flow of illegal immigrants. In this context it becomes necessary to examine diverse aspects of migration. In the following dissertation we focus on the processes of migratory and educational strategies’ negotiation of Polish families residing in Athens. …
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The greatest evangelizing opportunity of the century: the Southern Baptist Convention and Latino immigration politics, 1970-1994
… Recognizing the evangelizing potential Latino immigrants held, the SBC heralded them as the “greatest evangelizing opportunity of the century.” In an attempt to embrace Latino immigrants, the SBC advanced the American Mosaic program in 1971—a church planting strategy that promoted separate …
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Policy issues and regional integration: a case study of Nigeria'a policy in the economic community of West African States (ECOWAS) - 1979-1997
… of examination in this study: the expulsion of illegal immigrants most of whom were citizens of ECOWAS member states in 1983 and 1985, the land border closure of 1984-1985, and Nigeria 's role in ECOMOG. These policies are analysed in tandem with the Protocol on the free movement of goods; …
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Enabling security and risk-based operation of container line supply chains under high uncertainties
… and have been used, for example, to smuggle illegal immigrants, weapons, and drugs. The consequences of the use of a weapon of mass destruction or discovery of such a device in a container are serious. Estimates suggest that a weapon of mass destruction explosion and the resulting port …
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