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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"immigration laws"”.
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Safeguarding the illegal rethinking the interface between labour and immigration laws
… because their employment contract violates immigration laws. Unauthorized workers are formally excluded from access to certain legal institutions and economic benefits as most of the protective labour laws are centred on an existing employer-employee relationship.
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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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In Pursuit of Nativism: Is it in Arizona?
… this study is Arizona Senate Bill 1070. Its anti-immigration laws, when coupled with involvement by privatized prison corporations in its formation, most notably the Corrections Corporation of America, is implicated in fostering and maintaining an atmosphere of nativism. Blackian analysis will …
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The Impact Of Immigration Policies On Local Enforcement, Crime And Policing Efficiency
Following a period of increasing immigration enforcement under George W. Bush's administration, the Obama administration reversed immigration policies and issued strict new guidelines to relax enforcement in 2011. The purpose of this paper is to exploit this natural experiment in the enforcement of …
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Whose Nation is it? A Critical Analysis of the Impacts of Conservative Nationalism and Migration Security on Marginalized Groups in America
… threat (von Rosen, 2019). The framing of immigration and migrants as a threat to the United States is not a new occurrence and has served to bolster conservative politicians and construct anti-immigration laws and practices intended to target undocumented immigrants (Hajnal, 2021). The …
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From Persecution to Detention: A reflection on the non-application of Article 31(1) of the 1951 Refugee Convention on asylum seekers in Zambia
… and exit of persons in Zambia, these are the Immigration and Deportation Act No. 18 of 2010 (hereinafter referred to as the Immigration Act) and the Refugees Act No. 1 of 2017 (hereinafter the Refugees Act). Although these two pieces of legislation apply to different types of migrants, there …
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A study on the right of family life of refugees and persons with subsidiary protection in Malta
… perspective of local legislation, transposed EU laws and from the international legal instruments which lead to the discourse on human rights. This approach has resulted in a comparative exercise of refugee laws which apply to asylum seekers on the one hand and human rights laws with universal …
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20,000 Fewer: The Wagner-Rogers Bill and the Jewish Refugee Crisis
… the United States's government's strict immigration laws and allow persecuted children to come to the United States and live in American homes. The Wagner-Rogers Bill, named for Senator Robert Wagner of New York and Representative Edith Rogers of Massachusetts and introduced in February …
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The legal aspects of international labour migration: a study of national and international legal instruments pertinent to migrant workers in selected Western European countries.
… framework to regulate and harmonize the national immigration policies of States. Chapter Two examines the economics of international labour migration, the economic function and the social status of migrant labour in the receiving States. The focus is on the post Second World War migratory flow to …
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The Intervention for Peace and Border Control Safety in South Africa
… This paper analyses challenges of illegal immigration that poses danger and threats into South Africa which triggered the intervention of peace and border control for safety and security as a measure. The illegal migration and refugee crisis in South Africa post 1996 has reached the stage …
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Looking at Illegal Immigration in the United States through the Lenses of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
… is a larger community comprised of borders and laws for the protection and flourishing of its people. For many in the world, the U.S. represents a model country—not a perfect country, but a democratic country— where people from various parts of the world long to come with the hopes for a better …
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Balancing Two Worlds: Female Indo-Fijian Immigrant Youth in Their Public and Private Domains and the Emergence of the New Hybridity
In the last 20 years immigration in Canada has increased due to the relaxed immigration laws. With such an increase it is vital to understand immigrant youth experiences in terms of how they express their national and cultural identity, how they negotiate different expectations of their host and …
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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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The crossroad : experiences of non-EU/EEA international Masters students in their last year of study in the UK
… while abroad, and could be exacerbated by immigration laws. Thus, the crossroad can be a phase of psychological struggle, which can be of interest to mental health professionals. There is limited qualitative evidence on this sub-phase of CS on IS and this research attempts to address this …
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Organised social networks and the positive resettlement of female forced migrants: A case study of the Scalabrini Women's Platform and Congolese women in Cape Town
… challenges. Using the theory of embeddedness and immigration (Portes and Sensenbrenner, 1993), the Scalabrini women’s platform offers enforceable trust which provides economic resources in the form of knowledge and networks. Data was gathered through a review of the literature and semi-structured …
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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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Inequality of opportunity: the plight of foreign workers in South Africa
… position primarily because of their irregular immigration status. They are more likely to be subjected to exploitative and unsafe employment practices in terms of benefits and conditions. This study examines the protection available to this category of migrant workers in South Africa, …
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Governing Irregular Migration: Logics and Practices in Spanish Immigration Policy
Since the first substantive changes to Spanish immigration laws in the 1980s, immigration to Spain and the policies designed to govern it have changed greatly. The pace of this continuous transformation has recently slowed down, offering a good opportunity to reflect on the ways in which irregular …
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Sustaining Threat Narratives about Muslims and Arabs in Germany in The Post 9/11 Era: An Analysis of Showtime?s Homeland
… securitisation of Muslims in the form of immigration laws, anti-terror legislation, and restrictions on religious freedoms. My hypothesis is that televisual texts play a major role in the cultural production of knowledge and that threat narratives about Muslims are particularly sustained …
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