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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"illegal immigration"”.
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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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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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Looking at Illegal Immigration in the United States through the Lenses of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
… with the hopes for a better life. Consequently, immigration laws and the enforcement of the laws become a never-ending task. An essential job to those who legislate and enforce the laws is the integration of the moral components that undergird the shaping and exercising of immigration-related …
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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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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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Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Immigration Policy: How 9/11 Transformed the Debate Over Illegal Immigration
… home and abroad. This includes abuses of federal 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 …
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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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Immigrant inflows and public goods provision
… chapter 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 …
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The effect of media bias on legislation: a case study of Arizona's Senate Bill 1070 on immigration
… Senate Bill 1070, Arizona's bill to combat illegal immigration. The purpose of this study was to (a) examine whether the media coverage of Arizona Senate Bill 1070 initiated government action and (b) examine whether the media coverage presented emotional or legal arguments supporting or not …
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Italská politika vůči Libyi v letech 2007 až 2013
… of Italian interests in Libya - the issue of illegal immigration and economic cooperation. This bachelor thesis analyses, with the help of the theory Foreign Policy Analysis, the formation of Italian policy towards Libya in these categories. The comparison of results shows that Italian policy …
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Transnational Organized Crime in Latin America: Implications For U.S. National Security
… including the threat of a possibly overwhelming illegal immigration problem, TCO-terrorist collaboration, increasing gang violence, and economic difficulty, are explored. Recommendations for combatting the activity of TCOs are given, with an emphasis on international, multilateral intelligence …
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Essays on the effects of immigration on education and crime
This thesis estimates the effects of immigration on education and crime. In Chapter I, I use a reform in immigration policy as a natural experiment to estimate the effects of immigration on native-born student outcomes in Texas. OLS estimates suggest a negative association between immigration and …
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As fronteiras de Nord-Pas-de-Calais: um estudo de campo sobre a securitização da imigração em França
… through the prism of the securitization of immigration theory. This theoretical current comes from the school of critical security studies, and has as central concepts security threat, borders and boundaries. The securitization observes that immigration is conceptualized as a source of …
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A Model Approach for Effective Emergency Telecommunication Architecture for Texas Border Cities
… result of NAFTA, and the high rates of legal and illegal immigration that can be observed at any given time. Because of these reasons, the Texas-Mexico border is vulnerable to man-made or natural disasters. And because disasters can occur anywhere and at anytime, communities along the Texas-Mexico …
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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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Proximity, Politics and Policy Attitudes in the North American Context
… infrastructure, and attitudes toward immigration policy. Specifically, the thesis draws on survey data to investigate: (1) the mutual perceptions of the Canadian and American publics, (2) Canadian attitudes toward North American integration, (3) attitudes toward the Keystone XL …
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Reducing The Emergency Room Revolving Door Syndrome For The Poor, Uninsured And Chronically Ill Patient: Pilot Recommendations From A Process Improvement Evaluation
… medical insurance (due to unaffordability and/or illegal immigration status), and without a primary care provider (un-empaneled) to enroll with an affiliated primary care clinic and receive free healthcare – related services.1 Despite the launch of this initiative in October 2014, 35 percent of …
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Local Law Enforcement and Immigration: Lessons and Recommendations from Police Executives 2007-2021
Local Law Enforcement and Immigration: Lessons and Recommendations from Police Executives (2007-2021) Tonya D. Chapman ABSTRACT The Immigration and Reform Control Act (IRCA) of 1986 and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA) authorized the U.S. Immigration …
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(Re)embodying girlhood : collective autobiography and identity performance in Rude Mechanicals' Grrl action
… and covers topics as disparate as body image and illegal immigration, illuminates the ways that girls perform different, multiple, and shifting identities, both collectively and individually. This dissertation posits Grrl Action--part of a more general trend towards collective autobiography in …
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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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