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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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ARE NON-PROFIT IMMIGRATION ORGANIZATIONS READY FOR A COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM?
… of this study was to explore whether non-profit immigration organizations are ready for a comprehensive immigration reform. Social workers need to recognize that a lack of readiness among non-profit immigration organizations for a comprehensive immigration reform will lead to a lack of required …
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Essays in immigration economics
… second essay introduces a novel instrument for immigration, which is the predicted number of immigrants from the push factors of origin countries that induce emigration. The construction of the instrument uses the fact that when a push factor “raises the tide of immigration” from a country of …
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Immigration and Construction: An Analysis of the Impact of Immigration on Construction Project Costs
… immigrants works in construction (Passel, 2006). Immigration reform legislation will undoubtedly reduce the supply of illegal immigrants by encouraging enforcement of current laws and by enacting new legislation with harsher penalties for illegal immigration. Immigration reform may also guarantee …
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Essays in Immigration and Migration
… However, many new immigrants come with pre-immigration experience with the local culture which decreases learning costs. I insert investment into the matching model of Konya (2007). All immigrants face a cost to assimilating by investing in a process of cultural assimilation, but some new …
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Immigration Enforcement and Student Outcomes
<p>During the past 20 years, immigration enforcement increased dramatically in the U.S. interior. There is a growing recognition that immigration enforcement in the U.S. interior has spillover effects onto U.S. citizens, particularly the family of unauthorized immigrants. U.S. citizen children in …
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The immigration problem in Illinois
Open Restriction set for Item 114814 on 2020-06-11T14:58:02Z with date null by lac7@illinois.edu.
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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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Immigration and the labor market
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1993.
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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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Immigration and Crime: A Microeconometric Study
Although the relationship between immigration and crime has been a very controversial subject in the UK, the empirical evidence is limited. This thesis intends to narrow this gap by providing a comprehensive investigation for England and Wales of immigrants’ both active and passive involvement in …
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Italian Immigration in the United States
… studies) in order to describe Italian immigration in America. The research is focused on Italian-American communities in the areas of Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, New York City and Boston.</p><p> Between 1880 and 1920, Italian-Americans became one of the largest ethnic groups in the United …
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Dr. John Dunmore Lang and immigration
A Sydney reporter remarked on the death of Dr. John Dunmore Lang in August 1878, "Posterity will not be at any loss for materials of his political career." The Doctor prided himself on a lifetime which would leave indelible "footprints on the sands of time in Australia", as a contemporary noted, …
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Dr. John Dunmore Lang and immigration
A Sydney reporter remarked on the death of Dr. John Dunmore Lang in August 1878, "Posterity will not be at any loss for materials of his political career." The Doctor prided himself on a lifetime which would leave indelible "footprints on the sands of time in Australia", as a contemporary noted, …
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Political Economy of Immigration and Lobbying
… model, countries simultaneously choose both an immigration quota and a level of ""scrutiny"" that would-be immigrants face, and then immigrants choose to which countries to apply. I analyze the subgame-perfect equilibrium of this model and derive policy implications. The third chapter analyzes a …
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Essays on immigration and international trade
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