Top Research Papers on Immigration

Abstract Public opinion polls conducted from 1964 to 1999 found that Americans' desire to reduce immigration increased dramatically, but there existed a wide variation regarding which nationalities were to be restricted. Furthermore, the majority believed that many immigrants wind up on welfare and raise taxes for Americans and, hence, cause problems for the United States. This article reports on these findings and their implications for current political attitudes toward immigration and recent change and proposed changes inimmigration laws and programs.

The concept of Refugee is a pseudo-concept since the whole world is one. Every human being can live where he wants. The world is one Nation State without any political power. What are the borders Southwards between Egypt and Sudan linked by the River-Nile? What are the borders Westwards between Egypt and Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania linked by the Northern-Desert? What are the borders north-east wards between Egypt and Greater Syria (Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon)? What are the borders between Greater Syria westwards and Iraq? What ate the borders between Iraq down-wards an...

This special issue includes papers presented at the Fourth Symposium in Demography held in Poitiers France October 25-27 1995. The topic of the symposium was immigrants and their children. The primary geographical focus is on France but several papers examine the situation in other developed countries. (SUMMARY IN ENG) (ANNOTATION)

This brief review clearly establishes the fact that, although hypersensitivity reactions to diazepam and other benzodiazepines are rare, they are far from being undocumented.

한국, 중국, 일본 등 동아시아국가들이 새로운 이민국으로 부상하고 있음에도 불구하고, 동아시아인들의 이민과 이민자에 대한 태도를 비교의 시각에서 분석하는 연구는 많지 않다. 이 연구는 PEW Global Attitudes Project의 2002년과 2007년 여론조사 데이터를 사용해한국, 중국, 일본 동아시아 3국에서의 이민과 이민자태도를 분석한다. 이 연구는 동아시아인들의 이민과 이민자에 대한 태도가 개인의 경제 이익에 관한 고려가 아닌, 이민과 이민자가 자국의 문화적 정체성 혹은 경제적 이익에 어떤 영향을 미치는가에 관한 사회변화적 관심에 의해 영향을 받는다는 것을 발견했다. 이 분석결과는 사회변화적 인식의 중요성을 강조하는 기존연구들의 결론과 일치하는 것이다. 그러나 더 나아가, 이 연구는 동아시아인들이 이민문제에 대해서는 문화적으로 반응하는 반면, 이민자에 대해서는 경제적으로 반응한다는 흥미로운 발견을 하였다. 즉, 동아시아인들은 이민문제가 자국의 문화적 정체성에 미치는 부정적 효과에 대해 우려하는 동시에, 이민자들이 자국경제에 미치는 긍정적 기여를 기대하는 이중적 태도를 보인다는 것이다. 향후 이민과 이민자태도의 분석적 구분에 대한 이론적 논의와 ...

The authors comment on how U.S. immigration and health policies are related, focusing on how stigma, discrimination, and stress experienced by immigrants can reduce health.

We investigate the importance of citizens’ opinions about economic impacts of immigration in their countries to their preferences for immigration restriction. We focus on personal views regarding how immigrants would affect the national labour market and the domestic public finance. Our analysis of survey data from 7 EU countries during the period 2002-2003 suggests that personal opinions about these issues do not explain individual preferences for immigration restriction. We find somewhat unexpectedly that employers were more likely to prefer immigration restriction than the rest. Those who r...

IN INDUSTRIAL COUNTRIES where fertility is below replacement, immigration can provide a substantial guarantee against the prospect of long-run population loss. In Austria in 1985, for example, net immigration of 7,300 persons was sufficient to offset a slight natural decrease and produce a small gain in total population. Deaths outnumbered births by 1 18,000 in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1985, but the country's 83,000 net immigrants were almost enough to prevent population from declining. And the United Kingdom's 50,000 net immigrants accounted for nearly 40 percent of its total popula...

Annually Norway sends a report to the OECD – Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The report “International Migration 2013-2014 – IMO report for Norway” is a contribution to the reporting system on migration for the OECD countries. T...

In this second article, the author presents the main problems which affect the immigrant population, planning out some adequate health care programs as one component in the professional work nurses have.

TEN YEARS AGO, IN THE BASEment of a yellow church in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Jeff Rubin, his wife, and three young daughters participated in a workshop held by the Movement of Rural Women Workers (MMTR). Jeff remembers the three-day workshop as being pivotal in framing his relationship with and establishing his level of access to the MMTR, which he attributes to the presence of his family. In a room in which nearly all of the women present were there because they had built the courage to defy a husband, father, or brother who did not support their choice to attend, Jeff—a father and husband...

Authored by historians, sociologists, and anthropologists, the essays collected here first cover American immigration history and law as they have developed since the late eighteenth century and then turn to consider some of the most prominent immigrant groups and the most striking episodes of nativism in American history. Distributed for George Mason University Press.

Historically in the United States, periods of large-scale immigration have been accompanied by perceptions of threat and stereotypes of the feared criminality of immigrants. A century ago major commissions investigated the connection of immigration to crime; each found lower levels of criminal involvement among the foreign-born. The present period echoes that past. Over the past quarter century, alarms have been raised about large-scale immigration, and especially about undocumented immigrants from Latin America. But over the same period, violent crime and property crime rates have been cut in...

Immigrants are less likely than natives to report suffering from a long-lasting health problem and the prevalence of health problems differs not only between natives and immigrants but also across groups of immigrants who moved to the UK for different reasons.

The impact of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) passed in the United States in 1986 is examined. An economic analysis of the effects of illegal aliens on the labor market is first presented with consideration given to the determinants of illegal migration and its impact on the economy. The major provisions of the IRCA and its probable consequences are then discussed. The author concludes that because the IRCA does not address economic realities it is not likely to accomplish its objectives. (ANNOTATION)

This report summarizes attitudes and opinions in the United States concerning aspects of immigration based on searches of survey archives and both published and unpublished sources. It includes information on attitudes toward legal and illegal immigrants and toward immigrants from different countries evaluation of immigrant characteristics why Americans are reluctant to admit more immigrants the perceived impact of immigrants on U.S. culture and language and evaluation of immigration policies. Particular attention is given to attitudes and opinions on immigration in California.

Research on gender and immigration has mainly examined how gender relations and the gendered division of labor have influenced patterns of migration and how immigration has affected gender relation ...

Danish immigration and immigrant integration policy has changed dramatically over the past forty to 50 years, from occupying one of the most liberal positions in Western Europe in the 1980s to becoming one of the most restrictive in 2019. This policy shift has not least attracted international attention and led commentators to suggest that the Danes must be exceptionally anti-immigrant. This chapter investigates the drivers of policy change. It demonstrates that Danish public opinion may have been a necessary but not a sufficient condition for pushing immigration and immigrant integration poli...

This article endeavours to take stock of the immigrant population as a whole, by covering the whole range of permanent, temporary, refugee and ¿illegal' immigrant status and populations.

In this second article, the author presents the main problems which affect the immigrant population, planning out some adequate health care programs as one component in the professional work nurses have.

The U visa program provides immigration status to noncitizen victims of crime, ensuring unauthorized immigrants do not become easy prey because they are too afraid to seek help from the police. But under the federal government’s structuring of the U visa program, a victim must also become an accuser to receive immigration benefits. Thus, the U visa implicates the rights of third parties: accused defendants. These defendants are often immigrants themselves who may be deported when U visa recipients level their accusations. Recent state court decisions have created complications in the program b...

The issues of immigration and the process of integr ating immigrants are relatively new phenomena in Romania, a country mainly known as a country of emigration. These incoming migrants can be split into two groups: voluntary an d forced. This article focuses on the case of asylum seekers and refugees who came to Romania after 1990.

Although parties to the immigration debate are bitterly divided over policy, virtually everyone agrees that the presence of a large class of unauthorized immigrants in the United States is undesirable. However, enactment of the kind of policies that would be required to fully eliminate the class of undocumented immigrants – whether through exclusion or through legalization – is politically unlikely and probably unachievable in the near term. The current population of undocumented immigrants in the United States is estimated to stand at 10–12 million, an all-time high. Even if Congress manages ...

Abstract This study has been designed to clarify some of the issues raised in the recent immigration debate. Specifically, the study focuses on three research questions: (a) What are the criteria deemed important by Australian-born residents as the yardstick for migrant selection and assessment?; (b) what are their attitudes toward the present level of immigration, and to the suggestion that the present level of immigration has exacerbated the current unemployment situation?; and (c) what are the correlates of these attitudes? In the first part of the study. 56 Australian-born respondents (bot...

Since the World War II, especially the unity of Germany in 1990s, Germany has become a virtual non-typical immigration country gradually, and the immigration issues have become the core of social issues. Disbelief and defence psychology has existed widely among the native Germany and the immigrators, therefore, a series of the violence and antialien actions have been generated. The reason behind is that the two classes, Germany political party government and the masses, are reluctant to admit Germany existing as a virtual non-typical immigration country. Since 2001, Germany has prepared to est...

Immigration reform is the most polarizing legislative issues in the US. Surprisingly, despite regular polling evidence of the American public's attitudes towards immigration reform proposals, little evidence has elicited the preferences of the group most affected by any policy changes - legal and illegal Hispanic immigrants. This study presents evidence from a survey and choice experiment of Hispanic immigrants who entered the US illegally on their preferences and willingness to pay for different immigration reform proposals. Policy attributes, which are based on current competing US Senate an...

After"Mukden Incident",Japanese immigration policy changed from"armed immigration"at the first stage to"A-million-in-20-year"immigration policy. Thus,the whole village immigration became an important feature for the"Manchuria immigrants". Two cities and three counties in Shonai area in Yamagata Prefecture were designed to be immigrated as a whole,which was a tremendous huge project called Shonai type of immigration. From immigrants transportation for daiwa village we can see that this type of immigration was in accordance with then Japanese national condition and could solve agricultural crisi...

Attitudes towards immigrants and immigration : - do attitudes towards immigrants and immigration differ between Norway and Sweden?

With the promotion of globalization and speed-up of social mobility,immigrant and immigrant society have become a universal phenomenon.As a human being’s life community,immigrant society has its own typical content,various life styles and values,which create many challenges to existent social structure,social cultures,social policies and social harmony.So,it is a significative exploration and attempt to construct theoretical system of immigration sociology and initiate a new branch of sociology to study issues of immigrant and immigrant society.

Immigration is a frequently debated topic in American politics and media, yet little work examined children's understanding of this issue. In order to explore how children's understanding of immigration may differ based on their immigration experience, 261 elementary school-aged children (M = 9 years; SD = 1 year, 1 month) answered open-ended questions regarding why people move to the United States and why it should be legal or not. The sample consisted of 196 immigrants (first and second generation Latino/a immigrants) and 65 nonimmigrants (non-Latino/a children living in America for at least...

Whether it be about population size, origin, or legal status, what ordinary citizens imagine about immigrants is often incorrect. Furthermore, these misperceptions predict greater dislike of foreigners. But, if one considers all the facts that people could get wrong, researchers have likely only scratched the surface. To advance toward a more complete catalog of misperceptions, the current study focuses on one commonly held stereotype: immigrants’ propensity for crime. Using original data from a sample of college students, we examine the crime perception alongside nine established components o...

This paper presents a discourse analysis of French language policies regarding the integration of immigrants. It traces the evolution of policy debates on language and analyzes how these have progressively mutated from immigrant integration to immigrant control, becoming the current dominant ideology and creating a linkage between these two previously separate domains. The paper empirically analyzes the compulsory language requirements adopted for immigrants seeking to enter France, or reside, be reunited with family or become naturalized there. It also conducts an empirical analysis of t...

This paper is an analysis of the determinants of self-reported health status of immigrants, with a particular focus on type of visa used to gain admission. The concept of “health capital” and an immigrant selection and adjustment model are employed. The empirical analysis uses the three waves of the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia (panel I). Immigrant health is greater for immigrants who are younger, more educated, male, more proficient in English, and living outside of an immigrant ethnic enclave. Immigrant health is poorest for refugees and best for independent (economic) migr...

This book (256 pages, written in Korean) is a critical essay that reviews, questions, and criticises Korean and Eastern immigrants’ thinking and behaviour styles in Australia from their cultural perspectives, and discuss and proposes a creative cultural dimension for their better life in a multicultural context. Multiculturalism is not supportive of Eastern cultures because of individualistic collection of cultures, while transculturalism facilitates nurture of their culture in a community-oriented way within multicultural circumstances. Korean and Eastern immigrants, sharing oriental cultural...

As we enter the second decade of the 21st Century the lives of millions of people are shaped by the experience of migration. Immigration is the human face of globalization – the sounds, colors, and smells of a miniaturized, interconnected, and fragile world. This lecture examines the challenges of making migration work with a focus on immigration's inter-generational echo and the transition of immigrant origin youth via education to the labor market, to belonging, to citizenship and to the narrative of the nation.

The aim of this paper is to reflect on the existence and relevance of the theme of migrations in contemporary Portuguese children's literature and to analyze the representations of immigrants and their cultures in those literary productions. We also question the way those portrayals may contribute to children's global citizenship, to cultural exchanges and to a world without boundaries.

Using the 2005-2014 waves of the American Community Survey –a period characterized by the rapid expansion of interior immigration enforcement initiatives across the United States, we evaluate the impact of a tougher policy environment on undocumented immigrants' fertility. We find that a one standard deviation increases in enforcement lowers childbearing among likely undocumented women by 5 percent. The effect emanates from police-based measures linked to increased deportations, which may raise uncertainty about the future of the family unit and its resources. Understanding these impacts is im...

This article consider's the politics of immigration from the perspective of one state grappling with divergent and confusing federal immigration policies. Although Maryland is not a state that attracts national attention for its treatment of immigrants, its many jurisdictions (with their varying histories and demographics) offer an interesting contrast in approaches taken in response to differing federal initiatives. When immigration regulation moves to the state-level, it reveals the sharp divides that exist within states; it does not resolve the federal-level contradictions, but simply shift...

Over the last few decades, and particularly after 9/11, we have witnessed the increasing criminalization of immigrants in the United States. Changing policies have subjected immigrants to intensified apprehension and detention programs. This essay provides an overview of the context and policies that have produced the rising criminalization of immigrants. We draw on the institutional theory of migration to understand the business of detention centers and the construction of the immigration-industrial complex. We link government contracts and private corporations in the formation of the immigra...

Millions of people have immigrated to Israel throughout the 1900s and before. Immigration waves are considered the most important social, political, and economical turning points in the history of Israel. This study analyzes the content of Israeli children's books dealing with immigrants and immigration to determine the image of immigrants and immigration, the realism of the image, and the attitudes of children's book authors toward this subject. More than 30 Hebrew children's books with immigrant problems as the central theme were analyzed. Approximately one-half the books were published duri...

This bibliography includes materials published before October 1979 concerned with immigrants and immigration to New Zealand. It updates and replaces two earlier bibliographies published by the same Department in 1975 and 1978. The bibliography is organized alphabetically by authors name and a subject index is included (ANNOTATION)

The United States has a long history in the Middle East. In order to secure the safety and success of U.S. troops, the Government relied on the dedication, hard work, and support of brave Iraqis and Afghans who risked their lives and the lives of their families to help American soldiers and the U.S. mission. These Afghans and Iraqis worked as contractors, and they participated at every level of the mission by serving as translators, architects, and comrades. In return for their help and keeping American troops safe, the United States Government promised security from reprisals and gave its wor...

India has been receiving large numbers of immigrants, mostly from the neighbouring countries of South Asia, and some from other parts of the world, and hence she needs to be seen as a major immigration country. The article provides a detailed discussion of the problems and concerns of cross-border migrants, and India’s policy stance in dealing with immigration. It argues that India needs to differentiate between the stocks and the fl ows of its immigrant population. Also, it would no doubt be in the larger interests of the country to control the unabated fl ows of migrants from across the bord...

39 Jazovo is a village situated in the northern part of Yugoslav Banat. According to the administrative and regional division it belongs to municipality of Coka. After the census which had been carried out on 31.03.1931, the village had 1945 inhabitants. From that time the number of inhabitants decreases. At the time of the last census (31.03.1991) Jazovo had 1118 inhabitants. This means 827 or (42.5%) less people than it had sixty years earlier. Depopulation is caused by the negatibe rate of population growth and migrations. The majority of inhabitants are Hungarians. At the last census, ther...

This guide contains information resources on executive orders, immigration history and policy, and materials written by and about refugees and individuals from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. Policy and history of immigration in the United States

A systematic theory on immigration and immigrant society has not been established so far as people in the academic circle have different views of it. A comparative study of the immigrant society between Taiwan and some other regions shows that there are some peculiar connotations for the definition, motivation, type and characteristics of migration and the social structure,internal and external relations and transformation of an immigrant society.

YOU LISTEN TO PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH, the only way Mexicans can avoid the deadly and illegal trip across the US border is to come as guest workers temporary contract laborers for US industry and agriculture. The 8-14 million immigrants already living in the US without visas, he says, must become guest workers themselves if they want to get legal documents. While the president's proposal is the most extreme of those before Congress (and has not yet been formally introduced) , all the other bills that would reform US

Immigrants and Immigration Policy in Ageing Finland The paper addresses the issue of current immigration to Finland in the context of population ageing. It is estimated that about 40% of the present labour force will have withdrawn from the Finnish labour market by the year 2020. The government of this rapidly ageing country is seeking possible remedies to the problem of a shrinking labour force. The necessity of attracting a new workforce as well as the growing number of immigrants in the ethnically homogeneous Finnish society create a need for more detailed and creative immigration policy. T...

This article, which provides an introduction to the issue, discusses the role of psychology in understanding the processes associated with immigrants and immigration, and in meeting the challenge of managing immigration successfullyά—in ways that facilitate the achievement and well-being of immigrants, that benefit the country collectively, and that produce the cooperation and support of members of the receiving society. It considers how the study of immigrants and immigration offers potential benefits to the discipline of psychology and describes how a psychological perspective on this topic ...

Since 1978 a new immigration law has been the basis of an annual immigration plan taking into account social, humanitarian, and economic criteria, and one of its consequences has been a shift towards a greater proportion of Asian immigrants.