Top Research Papers on Immigration

The author develops his hypothesis that immigration benefits both the receiving country and the immigrants themselves. The focus is on the United States. An attempt is made to estimate the current level of U.S. immigration. The author also considers the effect of immigration on employment and productivity. (ANNOTATION)

Immigration has been a constant force shaping American life, both before and after national independence. Millions of individuals from around the world, with some degree of volition, decided that they could benefit from making the move to the United States or before that the British colonies of North America. Obviously, the lack of choice involved in the forcible enslavement of women and men from Africa renders their story different. But for the millions who calculated the advantages of emigration to America, economic concerns loomed large and linked those who arrived in the seventeenth centur...

How should liberal democracies treat noncitizens who are already physically present in their territory? This chapter holds that immigrants should get rights because they are here. Immigration scholars fear that this approach leads to the “soft inside, hard outside” view. If presence gives rights to immigrants (soft inside), current members have a strong incentive to keep newcomers out to protect the group’s identity (hard outside). However, when citizenship relies on respecting place-specific duties, it is possible to detach citizens’ rights from group identity. This makes citizenship compatib...

It is important to recognize and understand the psychology of being an immigrant from a psychodynamic and existential perspective. Immigration is about attachment, separation, and re-attachment, and therefore touches some of the deepest part of human existence. During the psychiatric or psychological evaluation of patients with migrant background, the caregiver asks a series of questions about their experience and socio-demographic details that have a quantitative nature. In this chapter, the focus is on the question of the quality of being an immigrant from a phenomenological perspective and ...

A class of immigration superprocesses (IMS) with dependent spatial motion is considered. When the immigration rate converges to a non‐vanishing deterministic one, we can prove that under a suitable scaling, the rescaled immigration superprocesses converge to a class of IMS with coalescing spatial motion in the sense of probability distribution on the space of measure‐ valued continuous paths. This scaled limit does not only provide with a new type of limit theorem but also gives a new class of superprocesses. Other related limits for superprocesses with dependent spatial motion are summarized.

In diese Richtung geht ein Text der ÖKONOMENSTIMME von Thieß Petersen, Migration – die neue Normalität (10.5.): Die hohen Flüchtlingszahlen des Jahres 2015 sind pr imär auf den Bürgerkrieg in Syrien zurückzuführen. Die Schlussfolgerung, dass ein Ende dieses Krieges die Migrationsbewegungen nach Europa beendet, ist g emäss diesem Beitrag jedoch ein Trugschluss. Der Beitrag besagt, die entwickelten Industrienatio nen Europas müssten sich "perspektivisch" auf dauerhafte hohe (Im)Migra tionsbewegungen vorbereiten.

This chapter analyzes the debate between advocates of open borders and defenders of the state’s right to control immigration. It examines four arguments for the former view. (1) As common owners of the earth, everyone has the right to enter any part of it. (2) Equality of opportunity at global level requires that people should be free to move between countries. (3) There is a human right to immigrate to any country one chooses. (4) States cannot coercively exclude immigrants unless they also allow them to participate democratically in the making of immigration policy. It then considers four ar...

Immigration control is an expression of national interest. The objective is to ensure that, of all those people who wish to come from abroad to work and settle here, we should accept only those whom it is in the national interest to accept. The process of selection must be operated in a way which does not delay or inconvenience the great generality of travellers. In more detail, the current objectives of the UK immigration control are: — (a) to prevent the entry of people who are personally unacceptable, for example, because of criminal record; (b) to protect and supplement the resident labour...

There is a deep irony about the current political moment. Though having an immigrant background is arguably a core feature of how most Americans understand themselves, the topic of immigration has in recent years risen to a fever pitch of political controversy and polarized views. Of course, the immigrant streams to the United States today differ substantially from those that characterized the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Instead of bringing in millions of South, Central, and Eastern Europeans looking for better opportunities than were available in their homelands, the curren...

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Coordinated by Pablo Yankelevich, this collection constitutes a significant step in the scholarship of immigrant communities in Mexico and Latin America. The volume presents a myriad of contributions with wide variations in focus, disciplinary field, and scope. The first two essays analyze immigration laws, institutional racism, eugenics and Pan-American ideologies in Latin America. David Scott-Fitzgerald and David CookMartin provide a detailed view of the legal context for the arrival of immigrant waves into the region, while Andrés Reggiani focuses on the ideological debates and policies sha...

Chapter 29 includes cases related to the rights of individuals subject to immigration proceedings, with particular focus on the right to be made aware of the potential immigration consequences of taking a guilty, competence to participate in the proceedings, and the related right to representation where competence is in question. While criminal case recommendations are beyond the purview of forensic practitioners, those involved in mental health diversion programs should be aware of the potential consequences of diversion participation for defendants at risk of deportation. In addition, forens...

Objectives Previous research has neglected to consider whether trends in immigration are related to changes in the nature of homicide. This is important because there is considerable variability in the temporal trends of homicide subtypes disaggregated by circumstance. In the current study, we address this issue by investigating whether within-city changes in immigration are related to temporal variations in rates of overall and circumstance-specific homicide for a sample of large US cities during the period between 1980 and 2010. Methods Fixed-effects negative binomial and two-stage least squa...

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The paper argues that the immigration of single European males to the Cape throughout the Dutch period has been overlooked in the debate about the expansion of the frontier. The presence of these immigrants affected the demography of the settlement and accounts for the consistently high free male sex ratio at the Cape. The paper challenges the mythology of large self-perpetuating pre-1707 settler families using up available land and pushing the frontier forward. It also draws attention to the fact that the Dutch East India Company, while not actively supporting immigration, was favorably dispo...

Book synopsis: Witness presents a new body of work in the field by an international cast of scholars who engage with a complex set of questions concerning notions of witnessing and attestation in twentieth- and twenty-first century Western culture. Providing insight into this vital yet relatively unexplored concept –and the wide range of media and subject areas to which it lends itself – the volume not only establishes links with existing, currently canonical contributions to witness literature – from Primo Levi through Victor Klemperer to Imre Kertesz – but also goes on to provide a set of an...

The Changing Face of Immigration Each year, hundreds of thousands of immigrants enter the United States in search of economic opportunity. Similar to the period at the turn of the nineteenth century, for the past thirty years cities across the country have experienced a rise in their immigrant population, particularly from Latin American and Asian countries. This continuous influx has created a demographic shift that is likel y to change the future of American cities, government, and politics forever. Today, in cities like Los Angeles, the foreign-born population accounts for more than 40 perc...

A nation of immigrants —but for the Ame r indians— the United States thinks a lot about the issue of immigration, and nor mally in terms of the assimilation of ethnic groups from distant lands into a national culture of complex identities under the ideal of individual citizenship. In the crisis mode produced by 9/11, the country’s security systems have been reordered, even threatening to refash ion much of the country around security issues. Yet it was not until 2006 that immigration —always a security issue— came to be the first order of political debate. The hard-nosed as pects (se dition an...

This entry explores migration as a family affair that propels people to cross borders to ensure their relatives' well-being. Through this process, migrants collectively contribute to a shifting social landscape in their new place of settlement. By locating a few key axes of stratification, the entry explores how these intersect with dynamics in immigrant families to produce a wide diversity of experiences. Whether or not they do so consciously or intentionally, immigrant families must negotiate macrostructural factors – including gender norms and expectations, labor market opportunities, the e...

Discusses trends in immigration in the United States, including the demographic makeup of today's newcomers, the status of undocumented workers, their impact on the economy and culture, and the trepidation felt by many native born citizens toward these new residents.