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Title:
Debating immigration / edited by Carol M. Swain.
Author:
Swain, Carol M. (Carol Miller), editor.
Publication Information:
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

©2018
Call Number:
JV6483 .D423 2018
Abstract:
"Debating Immigration presents 21 original and updated essays, written by some of the world's leading experts and preeminent scholars that explore the nuances of contemporary immigration in the United States and Europe. This volume is organized around the following themes: economics, demographics and race, law and policy, philosophy and religion, and European politics. Its topics include comprehensive immigration reform, the limits of executive power, illegal immigration, human smuggling, civil rights and employment discrimination, economic growth and unemployment, and social justice and religion. A timely second edition, Debating Immigration is an effort to bring together divergent voices to discuss various aspects of immigration often neglected or buried in discussions"-- Provided by publisher.
Edition:
Second edition.
ISBN:
9781108470469

9781108454674
Physical Description:
xxvii, 417 pages ; 23 cm
General Note:
Edition statement from front cover.
Contents:
: Déjà vu / Race, immigration, and civil rights law in the low-skilled workplace / Comprehensive immigration confusion / Who got the jobs?: two-thirds of long-term employment gains have gone to immigrants, 2000-2017 / The Congressional Black Caucus and immigration reform / Will Hispanic and Asian immigrants save America? / The progressive argument for reducing immigration into the United States / What should comprehensive immigration reform encompass? / Unintended consequences and path dependencies: explaining the post-1965 surge in Latin American immigration / Alien rights, citizen rights, and the politics of restriction / Good neighbors and good citizens: beyond the legal-illegal immigration debate / Federalism and the politics of immigration reform / Barack Obama: testing the constitutional limits on the executive / Biblical prudence and American immigration / The moral dilemma of US immigration policy revisited: open borders vs. social justice? / Carved from the inside out: immigration and America's public philosophy on citizenship / The politics of citizenship and belonging in Europe / Globalization, migration and governance / The free economy and the Jacobin state, or how Europe can cope with large-scale immigration / Human smuggling and trafficking into Europe / Concluding thoughts
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