International Migration and Security: Opportunities and Challenges

ISBN-13: 9780415326544 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 282 str.

Elspeth Guild; Joanne van Selm

Opis

Are immigrants an asset or a threat?
Every day newspapers in the Western world carry articles about illegal immigrants, asylum seekers and other migrants. The focus of these articles varies greatly from migrants as a threat to one or another important social or societal interest, to migrants as an important asset to those same interests.
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International Migration and Security" brings information and analysis to the immigration debate. Experts from a variety of different disciplines-ranging from urban planning to judicial reform-are collected n this volume to consider the impact that and the concept of immigration has on their field. The key question examined is how movement of persons affects areas as diverse as health, national security, the welfare of state, cuisine, identity, law and human rights, and the political, social and legal results.
This innovative and interdisciplinary book provides new insight into the debates around immigration in the twenty-first century and will be of interest to all students and researchers in the area.

Recenzje

'For reasons of the breadth of issues the book covers and the detail and quality of the analyses in many of the chapters this book should be high on the reading list of those interested in migration.' - Political Studies Review

Spis treści

1. Immigration: Opportunities and Challenges for the Developed World Joanne van Selm 2. Immigration and Regional Security  3. Rights Spillovers: The Impact of Migration on the Legal System of Western States  4. Human Rights for Immigrants and Immigrants for Human Rights  5. From Foreigners to 'Abnormal Aliens': How the Faces of the Enemy Have Changed Following September the 11th  6. Immigrants and the Host Polity: Immigrant Voters as an Electoral Counterweight to Extreme Right Parties  7. Cultural and Identity Security: Immigrants and the Legal Expression of National Identity 8. Immigrants, Refugees and Racism: Europeans and Their Denial  9. Language and Immigration  10. Global, National and Local Identities: The Transformative Effects of Migrant Literature 11. Immigration and the Welfare State  12. Migration; A Threat or an Asset to Health?  13. Homeownership and the Integration of Immigrants in the United States  14. Digestible Difference: Food, Ethnicity and Spatial Claims in the City  15. Feeding the Festive City: Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Tourist Industry  Conclusions

O autorze

Elspeth Guild, Joanne van Selm