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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"immigration reform"”.
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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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Countering the DREAMer Narrative: Storytelling, Immigration Reform, and the Work of 67 Sueños
… been used in the current U.S. conflicts over immigration?</em></p> <p>Telling an effective story is an essential part of a complex strategy to bring about social change, but storytelling as a part of collective action has not been extensively studied. For activists in the United States …
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Congress and Immigration Policy: A Study of the Member-level Motivations and Agenda Setting Strategies Surrounding Immigration Reform
… 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 roll-calls that expand/contract immigration rights. I argue that the existing decision-making literature on immigration …
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Partisanship and Opportunities for Additional Bipartisanship in Tech Immigration and Privacy Reform
… in the legislative realms of tech privacy and immigration reform. Constituencies, committee assignments, fundraising and other environmental factors can help determine a politician's level of interest in tech issues. Specifically, upon analyzing these factors, bipartisanship appears to be more …
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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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Yo Hablo Ingles: The Influence of Motivation and Group Cohesion on Learning English in a Workplace Setting
<p>Immigration reform is a current and controversial issue in the United States and around the globe. Although it is unlikely that comprehensive immigration reform is immediately forthcoming in the United States, plans proposed by both liberal and conservative law-makers require those applying for …
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Layers of Identity & Privilege in Legislation: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Senate Bill 744
… Congress in an attempt to accomplish bi-partisan immigration reform. The bill was viewed (and still is) as a comprehensive compromise, in that neither Democrats nor Republicans were completely satisfied with its result. The outcome was that the legislators who were involved in S.744*s creation …
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Closed Borders: A Comparative Analysis Between the Immigration Detention Policies of the United States and Australia
… Australia are often regarded as being tough on immigration though the immigration concerns of the two countries are vastly different. This paper compares the mandatory detention policies in these two countries in terms of their motivation and authorization, immigration target, and facilities …
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Immigrants Facing Immigration Policy: State Laws Regulating Eligibility For In-State Tuition And Belonging Among Immigrant Youth In The United States
… design highlighting the role of policy images in immigration reform. This dissertation aims to develop a broader understanding of the subjective sense of belonging, which includes civic and political engagement along with various measures of assimilation. The contrasting cases of state-level …
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Border Narratives, Latino Health, and United States Media Representation: A Cultural Analysis
… in the 1990's of three issues in the media: immigration, the U.S.-Mexico border, and health care policy. I show that anxieties surrounding the U.S.-Mexico border are articulated to concerns about health, disease, and medical resources. I start with a qualitative analysis of selected texts …
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The Impact of Undocumented Immigration on Unfunded Mandates and Government Effectiveness
… study is to assess the impact of undocumented immigration on the United States, specifically the economic implications they may carry and the government effectiveness in managing this population. Utilizing the method of qualitative content analysis, this study examined the various aspects of …
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The Relations of Terror and Immigration: Preventive Solutions
… 11th attacks, the U.S. government implemented immigration reform to defend against terrorism, creating an institutional link between the two spuriously related issues of immigration and terrorism. This M.A. thesis examines the relationship between terrorism and immigration. It concludes that …
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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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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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Jus meritum : alien military service and naturalization in the United States
… development of American citizenship. Scholars of immigration and civil-military relations, too, only deal with the practice of alien enlistment and naturalization tangentially. Drawing on these related literatures, I argue that jus meritum is a foundational citizenship policy deserving of greater …
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Estimating Penalties for Violating the Minimum Wage and Hiring Illegal Immigrants: The Case of the U.S. Apparel Manufacturing Industry
… 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 minimum wage and the ban on …
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Literature and the Long Postwar: Recuperating the Post-45 Veteran
… of white veterans maladjusted to the racial reform of the postwar South. Read together, reentry novels reveal how postwar writers responded to the war and the movements it catalyzed – such as decolonization, immigration reform, and civil rights – through the figure of the demobilized veteran. …
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Transnationalizing Indian education: Diasporic networks, politics and participation
… in India. Surfaced after the period of post-1965 immigration act in general and the Immigration Reform and Control Act (1990) in particular, the space of skilled diasporic organizations is seen as an opportunity for knowledge transfer, economic development and transnational collaboration. Paying …
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