he Peopling of Hawaii by Eleanor C. Nordyke offers a comprehensive historical and demographic overview of how Hawaii’s population was formed across centuries. The book traces the arrival of the earliest Polynesian settlers, followed by successive waves of immigrants from Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Nordyke explains the cultural, economic, and political forces that shaped migration pattern…
Covers the period from 1950 to 1989. Focuses on the impact of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) on the volume of undocumented immigration into the USA. Includes a chapter on emigration pressure in Europe and Africa.
Working from an interdisciplinary perspective that draws on the social sciences, legal studies, and the humanities, this book investigates the causes and effects of the extremities experienced by migrants. Firstly, the volume analyses the development and political-cultural conditions of current practices and discourses of 'bordering,' 'illegality,' and 'irregularization.' Secondly, it focuses o…
Europe is facing a wave of migration unmatched since the end of World War II - and no one has reported on this crisis in more depth or breadth than the Guardian's migration correspondent, Patrick Kingsley. Throughout 2015, Kingsley travelled to 17 countries along the migrant trail, meeting hundreds of refugees making epic odysseys across deserts, seas and mountains to reach the holy grail of Eu…
Written from various perspectives, this collection of essays explores the migration experiences of a spectrum of people, from professional and managerial elites to contract workers and refugees. In addressing the nature of these Asian migrations, it demonstrates how mobility in the world has transformed notions of citizenship and identity.
On Immigration and Refugees draws together his thoughts on this major issue for the first time. Clearly but passionately written, he begins by reflecting on some of the fundamental issues underlying the confused and often highly unjust thinking about immigration. He questions what rights opponents of immigration are invoking, what principles govern a state's policies on immigration, and how suc…
Immigration phobia is a paradoxical global phenomenon: neither theories that link conflict to symbolic and realistic threats, nor the 'contact hypothesis' can systematically explain intense anti-migrant alarmism and exclusionism toward marginally small migrant minorities. Through a careful comparative study of immigration attitudes in the Russian Far East, the EU, and the United States, this bo…
The concepts of 'citizenship' and 'border' have rarely been systematically brought together. New Border and Citizenship Politics challenges this, examining the intersections and dynamics of bordering processes and citizenship politics. Case-studies from the United States, Europe, the Mediterranean and Australia illuminate the connections, exploring the politics of redesigning borders, technolog…
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…