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Showing 1 to 20 of 105 for “"immigration policy"”.
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British Citizenship and Immigration Policy, 1945 - 1962.
… thesis charts the evolution of citizenship and immigration policy in Britain between 1945 and 1962. These years were marked by the movement of small but growing numbers of British citizens and British subjects, Black and Asian, to Britain. At the start of this period, British subjects from the …
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Money and Migration: Firm Behavior and Labor Immigration Policy
What shapes labor immigration policies? This dissertation explores in particular the macroeconomic environment and the influence of firms as key determinants. It argues that monetary policy plays a pivotal role in shaping labor immigration policy through its influence on the economic and political …
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The Legislature in Immigration Policy-Making: A Liberal Constraint?
Over the last thirty years, research on the immigration policy-making of liberal democratic states has been preoccupied with the puzzle of why migrant inflows have reached unprecedented levels in Western countries, despite popular calls for restrictionism. A common response of scholars to this …
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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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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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UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY: EXPLOITING UNDOCUMENTED MIGRANTS FOR POLITICAL GAIN
The U.S. Congress has not passed significant immigration reform legislation since 1996. Congress’s inaction has enabled presidential administrations to amass power and shape immigration policy according to their political priorities. This thesis explores how political tribalism and ever-changing …
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Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070: A Case Study on State-Sponsored Immigration Policy
… the origins of Arizona’s state-sponsored immigration policy. It attempts to identify the social dynamics within Arizona that contributed to the overwhelming public support for SB 1070. Since it has been two years after the law was passed, this analysis determines what impact the law has …
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An Analysis of Japan’s Immigration Policy on Migrant Workers and Their Families
… attempts to provide an analysis of Japan’s immigration policy on migrant workers and their families. I am interested in exploring the interactions between the Japanese government and foreigners during 1960-2014. I have three research questions: (1) What is the Japanese government policy for …
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SHIFTING COHERENCE OF IMMIGRATION POLICY: STATE-SOCIETY RELATIONS IN JAPAN AND SINGAPORE
… ELEMENTS WITHIN? IN THIS THESIS I EXAMINE THE IMMIGRATION POLICIES OF TWO DISSIMILAR COUNTRIES, JAPAN AND SINGAPORE. THEY ARE DISSIMILAR PARTICULARLY IN TERMS OF ETHNIC COMPOSITION, POPULATION SIZE, AND MIGRATION HISTORY, BUT BOTH ARE EXPERIENCING A SIMILAR OUTCOME. JAPAN IS KNOWN TO HAVE HAD A …
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Spanish leadership in developing a 'common' European immigration policy: Intergovernmentalist supranationalization approach
… EXAMINE THE DEVELOPMENT OF A "COMMON" EUROPEAN IMMIGRATION POLICY (SINCE THE 1980S) WITHIN THE LINES OF TWO MAJOR EUROPEAN INTEGRATION THEORIES: INTERGOVERNMENTALISM AND SUPRANATIONALISM. APPLICATION OF ANDREW MORAVCSIK'S LIBERAL INTERGOVERNMENTALIST APPROACH TO THE CASE STUDY OF THE SPANISH …
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Attitudes Toward Immigrants and Immigration Policy in the United States: A Structural Approach
Immigration has recently become an important national issue due in large part to the rise in numbers of immigrants entering the United States (starting around 1965), the shift in the national origins of immigrants, and wage stagnation and economic restructuring occurring as immigrants arrive. In …
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Immigration policy and Colombian textile workers in New England : a case study in political demography
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1984.
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Higher education, immigration & policy: a case study of highly educated African immigrants living in Central Illinois
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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Nativism as an Influencing Force on Immigration Policy in North America from the 1850s to the 1930s
… between the 1850s and the 1930s. Observing immigration waves and their reception in the aforementioned countries proves that certain immigrant groups that were considered to be undesirable were received with discrimination, based on nativist grounds.
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SHIFTING DREAMS: INTERSECTIONS OF THE RHETORICAL IMAGINATION OF U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY AND THE WRITING PRACTICES OF DREAMERS
… is at once the most comprehensive progressive immigration legislation and a heavily weighted document that further marginalizes migrants through those four problem areas. I employ various frameworks to examine the intersections between the discriminatory rhetoric of the DREAM Act and the …
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The Dynamics of Language in the Valencian Community from the Context of Immigration Policy and Refugee Programs
… country of reception. The role of language with immigration will be analyzed in the Valencian Community of Spain. Immigration and integration data from Spain are discussed alongside data from 4 other European countries to serve as comparative analysis.</p>
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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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Congress and Immigration Policy: A Study of the Member-level Motivations and Agenda Setting Strategies Surrounding Immigration Reform
… party agenda setting strategies, existing in policy contexts that generate internal divisions within political parties. In particular, I do this through the lens of immigration reform. At the micro-level, I explore the district-level mechanisms that drive House members’ voting behavior on …
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