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The Political Economy of Border Drawing
The conditions for non-EU migrant workers to gain legal entry to Britain, France, and Germany are at the same time similar and quite different. To explain this variation this book compares the fine-grained legal categories for migrant workers in each country, and examines the interaction of economic, social, and cultural rationales in determining migrant legality. Rather than investigating the failure of borders to keep unauthorized migrants out, the author highlights the different policies of each country as \"border-drawing\" actions. Policymakers draw lines between different migrant groups, and between migrants and citizens, through considerations of both their economic utility and skills, but also their places of origin and prospects for social integration. Overall, migrant worker legality is arranged against the backdrop of the specific vision each country has of itself in an economically competitive, globalized world with rapidly changing welfare and citizenship models.
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Tomorrow We're All Going to the Harvest
Intro -- Maps, Figures, and Tables -- Acronyms -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Contract Labor Migration in Theory and Practice -- 1. Agricultural Crisis, Migration, and Contract Labor: Tlaxcala, Mexico, and Ontario, Canada -- 2. The Dual Process of Constructing Mexican Contract Workers -- 3. \"Tomorrow We're All Going to the Harvest\": Case Studies of Contract Labor Migration -- 4. Interrogating Racialized Global Labor Supply: Caribbean and Mexican Workers in Canada's SAWP -- 5. The Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program and Mexican Development -- 6. The Political Economy of Contract Labor in Neoliberal North America: Cheap Labor and Organized Labor -- 7. Globalization and Temporary Migrants: Post-National Citizens, Realpolitik, and Disposable Labor Power -- Appendix. The SAWP: Saving the Family Farm or Feeding Corporate Enterprise? -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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Cities and Labour Immigration
Using a unique analytical framework based on host-stranger relations, this book explores the response of cities to the arrival and settlement of labour immigrants. Comparing the local policies of four cities - Paris, Amsterdam, Rome and Tel Aviv - Michael Alexander charts the development of migrant policies over time and situates them within the broader social context. Grounded in multi-city, multi-domain empirical findings, the work provides a fuller understanding of the interaction between cities and their migrant populations. Filling a gap in existing literature on migrant policy between national-level theorizing and local-level study, the book will provide an important basis for future research in the area.
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Managing Labor Migration in the Twenty-First Century
Why have ninety million workers around the globe left their homes for employment in other countries? What can be done to ensure that international labor migration is a force for global betterment? This groundbreaking book presents the most comprehensive analysis of the causes and effects of labor migration available, and it recommends sensible, sustainable migration policies that are fair to migrants and to the countries that open their doors to them.
The authors survey recent trends in international migration for employment and demonstrate that the flow of authorized and illegal workers over borders presents a formidable challenge in countries and regions throughout the world. They note that not all migration is from undeveloped to developed countries and discuss the murky relations between immigration policies and politics. The book concludes with specific recommendations for justly managing the world's growing migrant workforce.
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Help (not) wanted : immigration politics in Japan
\"In Help (Not) Wanted, Michael Strausz offers an original and provocative answer to a question that has long perplexed observers of Japan: Why has Japan's immigration policy remained so restrictive, especially in light of economic, demographic, and international political forces that are pushing Japan to admit more immigrants? Drawing upon insights that he developed during twenty-two months of intensive field research in Japan, Strausz ultimately argues that Japan's immigration policy has remained restrictive for two reasons: first, Japan's labor-intensive businesses have failed to defeat anti-immigration forces within the Japanese state, particularly those in the Ministry of Justice and the Japanese Diet); and second, no influential strain of elite thought in postwar Japan exists to support the idea that significant numbers of foreign nationals have a legitimate claim to residency and membership. This book is particularly timely at a moment shaped by Brexit, the election of Trump, and the rise of anti-immigrant political parties and nativist rhetoric across the globe\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Migration policymaking in Europe
This important work analyses immigration and immigrant inclusion policies in ten European countries, examining how such policies are formed and subsequently implemented. The study singles out the important role of usually overlooked factors and actors that significantly affect policymaking alongside the formal legal framework. It also identifies similarities and diversities in European immigration policies. This title is available in the OAPEN Library - http://www.oapen.org.
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