Throughout South Asia, questions of ‘illegal immigration’ combined with those of ‘national security’ have acquired politically explosive dimensions in recent years. Despite this, migration studies have remained, by and large, confined to the domains of economics and demography. Dealing with transborder migrations from Bangladesh to West Bengal, The Marginal Nation analyzes these iss…
This book provides a valuable contribution to the current debate about Asian immigration by discussing it in the context not of Asian actions but of longstanding New Zealand attitudes and policies.
Bringing together critics of immigration and multiculturalism, this work argues that the policies of the immigration-receiving countries are leading to cultural and ethnic problems. It contains both original work as well as material first published in the American journal The Social Contract. Contents: 1. Understanding the United States immigration problem 2. The costs of immigration to the…
Population mobility increases with economic development and globalization. The migration of people affects countries in many ways -- socially, economically and politically. However, there are fundamental tensions in efforts to manage international migration in a globalizing world. On the one hand, business is transnational as it necessitates the unrestricted flow of people internationally. On t…
Guests and Aliens presents a comprehensive analysis of worldwide immigration by one of the worlds leading experts on globalization. Putting the current crisis of immigration into a historical context for the first time, Sassen suggests that the American experience represents only one phase in a history of global border crossing. She describes the mass migrations of Italians and Eastern European…
This work on Islam and politics updates major country case studies and adds coverage of Tunisia, Algeria, the Taliban of Afghanistan and HAMAS. It also addresses the issues of democratization and the clash of civilization debate.
Tidak banyak diketahui tentang keadaan kependudukan Timor Timur selama dalam penjajahan Portugal sejak 1681 hingga 1976. Demikian pula, tidak banyak juga referensi tentang kependudukan Timor Timur yang dipublikasikan dia media ilmiah ataupun media umum. Dari publikasi U.N. (1975-1980) -Demographic Year Book-, misalnya, hanya ditemukan data kependudukan untuk Portuguese Timor atau East Timor ten…
This book examines the consequences of projected population decline and population aging as well as policy responses to address demographic change.
Becoming British Columbia is the first comprehensive, demographic history of British Columbia. Investigating critical moments in the demographic record and linking demographic patterns to larger social and political questions, it shows how biology, politics, and history conspired with sex, death, and migration to create a particular kind of society. John Belshaw overturns the widespread ten…
September 11 provided a vision and a strategy to a US Presidency that until then had been groping for fresh ideas and a relevant foreign policy. The 'global war on terror' now became an article of faith for the United States. The US Government, media and think-tanks turned their attention to Islam, the Arab world and Saudi Arabia, and held them responsible for the catastrophe unleashed upon the…