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Does immigration increase crime? : migration policy and the creation of the criminal immigrant
\"Butcher and Piehl (1998) provide the first systematic economic analysis of immigration and crime rates,showing that immigration did not lead to a significant increase in crime across U.S.cities over the period 1980-1990. Reid et al.(2005) and Wadsworth (2010) reach the same conclusion when looking at more recent periods.Moving to European countries, Bianchi et al.(2012) conclude that immigration did not increased crime across Italian provinces,while Alonso-Borrego et al.(2012) estimate a positive relationship between immigration and crime in Spain. Finally,Bell et al.(2013) focus on two large waves of recent UK immigration,namely the late 1990s /early 2000s asylum seekers and the post-2004 inflow from EU accession countries,respectively. They find that only in the former case there was a significant increase in (property) crimes. Legal status may profoundly affect criminal behaviour by changing the relative payoffs of legitimate and illegitimate activities. In most destination countries,legal status is a prerequisite for working in the official economy.Therefore,undocumented immigrants are excluded from legitimate economic activities or they may be able to work just in the shadow economy.In either case,they would face worse (legitimate) income opportunities compared to legal immigrants and thus a lower opportunity cost of crime. In spite of the importance of the relationship between immigration police and crime for the debate on immigration reforms currently taking place in the United States as well as in many European countries,there is very little empirical evidence on this topic\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The role of the state in migration control : the legitimacy gap and moves towards a regional model
Questioning the seemingly ossified premise that states have an absolute discretion to control migration, this research submits that measures of migration control must be justified on a rational-legal basis and offers a regional model as the most sustainable long-term option.
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Precarity and Belonging
Precarity and Belonging examines how the movement of people and their incorporation, marginalization, and exclusion, under epochal conditions of labor and social precarity affecting both citizens and noncitizens, have challenged older notions of citizenship and alienage. This collection brings mobility, precarity, and citizenship together in order to explore the points of contact and friction, and, thus, the spaces for a possible politics of commonality between citizens and noncitizens.The editors ask: What does modern citizenship mean in a world of citizens, denizens, and noncitizens, such as undocumented migrants, guest workers, permanent residents, refugees, detainees, and stateless people? How is the concept of citizenship, based on assumptions of deservingness, legality, and productivity, challenged when people of various and competing statuses and differential citizenship practices interact with each other, revealing their co-constitutive connections? How is citizenship valued or revalued when labor and social precarity impact those who seemingly have formal rights and those who seemingly or effectively do not? This book interrogates such binaries as citizen/noncitizen, insider/outsider, entitled/unentitled, \"legal\"/\"illegal,\" and deserving/undeserving in order to explore the fluidity--that is, the dynamism and malleability--of the spectra of belonging.
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Undocumented immigrants in an era of arbitrary law : the flight and the plight of people deemed 'illegal'
This book describes the experiences of undocumented migrants, all around the world, bringing to life the challenges they face from the moment they consider leaving their country of origin, until the time they are deported back to it. Drawing on a broad array of academic studies, including law, interpretation and translation studies, border studies, human rights, communication, critical discourse analysis and sociology, Robert Barsky argues that the arrays of actions that are taken against undocumented migrants are often arbitrary, and exercised by an array of officials who can and do exercise considerable discretion, both positive and negative. Employing insights from a decade-long research project, Barsky also finds that every stop along the migrant’s pathway into, and inside of, the host country is strewn with language issues, relating to intercultural communication, interpretation, gossip, hearsay, and the challenges of peddling of linguistic wares in the social discourse marketplace. These language issues are almost always impediments to anodyne or productive interactions with host country officials, particularly on the \"front-lines\" where migrants encounter border patrol and law enforcement officers without adequate means of communicating their situation or understanding their rights. Since undocumented people are categorized as ‘illegal’, they can be subjected to abuse and exploitation by host country officials, who can choose to either tolerate or punish them on the basis of unpredictable, changeable, and even illusory or \"arbitrary\" laws and regulations. Citing experts at every level of the undocumented immigrant apparatuses worldwide, from public defenders to interpreters, Barsky concludes that the only viable policy to address prevailing abuses and inequalities is to move towards open borders, an approach that would address prevailing issues and, surprisingly, provide security and economic benefits to both host and home countries.
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Undocumented : how immigration became illegal
In this illuminating work, immigrant rights activist Aviva Chomsky shows how \"illegality\" and \"undocumentedness\" are concepts that were created to exclude and exploit. With a focus on US policy, she probes how people, especially Mexican and Central Americans, have been assigned this status--and to what ends. Blending history with human drama, Chomsky explores what it means to be undocumented in a legal, social, economic, and historical context.
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Migration, Multilingualism and Schooling in Southern Europe
Migration, Multilingualism and Schooling in Southern Europe, edited by Sandro Caruana, Liliana Coposescu and Stefania Scaglione, deals with a highly current topic in Europe today, namely migration in Southern European countries and its impact on children in primary schooling. The volume deals with migration, both through the contribution of experts in the field, and through the results of an EU-funded project, MERIDIUM, which spanned over three years and touched on a number of topical issues.
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Immigration and the law : race, citizenship, and social control
A critical look at the mechanisms, beliefs, and ideologies that govern U.S. immigration laws, and the social impacts of their enforcement--Provided by publisher.
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The borders of punishment : migration, citizenship, and social exclusion
This book critically assesses the relationship between immigration control, citizenship,
and criminal justice. It reflects on the theoretical and methodological challenges posed
by mass mobility and its control and sets out a particular sub-field within criminology
— the criminology of mobility. Drawing together leading international scholars with
newer researchers, the book systematically outlines why criminology and criminal justice
should pay more attention to issues of immigration and border control. The chapters
consider how ‘traditional’ criminal justice institutions such as the criminal law,
police, and prisons are being shaped and altered by immigration, as well as examining
novel forms of penalty (such as deportation and detention facilities), which have until
now seldom featured in criminological studies and textbooks. In so doing, the book
demonstrates that mobility and its control are matters that ought to be central to any
understanding of the criminal justice system. Phenomena such as the controversial use of
immigration law for the purposes of the war on terror, closed detention centres,
deportation, and border policing, raise in new ways some of the fundamental and enduring
questions of criminal justice and criminology: What is punishment? What is crime? What
should be the normative and legal foundation for criminalization, for police suspicion,
for the exclusion from the community, and for the deprivation of freedom? And who is the
subject of rights within a society and what is the relevance of citizenship to criminal
justice?
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