1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990002507110403321

Titolo

Component and correspondence analysis : dimension reduction by functional approximation / edited by Jan L.A. van Rijckevorsel, Jan de Leeuw

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester : John Wiley, 1988

ISBN

0-471-91847-4

Descrizione fisica

xiii, 146 p. ; 23 cm

Collana

Wiley in probability and mathematical statistics

Disciplina

519.535 4

519.5

Locazione

FSPBC

MAS

Collocazione

VI E 336

XI-B-10

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458210003321

Autore

Liebert Saltanat

Titolo

Irregular migration from the former Soviet Union to the United States / / Saltanat Liebert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2009

ISBN

1-135-23052-8

1-135-23053-6

1-282-73347-8

9786612733475

0-203-87172-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (164 pages)

Collana

Routledge Transnational Crime and Corruption

Disciplina

304.8/73047

Soggetti

Immigrants - Asia, Central

Immigrants - Caucasus

Immigrants - Former Soviet republics

Undocumented immigrants - United States

Electronic books.

Asia, Central Emigration and immigration

Caucasus Emigration and immigration

Former Soviet republics Emigration and immigration

United States Emigration and immigration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [140]-149) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1 Introduction; 2 Kyrgyzstan within a Central Asian perspective: Historical background and migration trends; 3 Migration policies in the United States and in Kyrgyzstan; 4 Leaving the homeland; 5 In the Golden Land; 6 Conclusion

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the first in English to examine irregular migration from post-Soviet states, focusing in particular on migration to the United States. Due to globalization and the end of the Cold War, citizens of the former Soviet Union are on the move as never before. The political, economic, and social changes that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union resulted in widespread poverty and unemployment and also



created a large pool of potential migrants. Thousands of individuals from poor post-Soviet countries migrate to the West in search of better-paid work in an effort to provide for themselves and their families both through legal channels, and in their absence, undocumented.  In recent years immigration has become a topic of heated debate in many Western countries: the estimated number of undocumented immigrants in the United States has reached 11 million, precipitating a new legislative focus on reforming the immigration system, culminating in the highly controversial Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act passed by the House of Representatives in 2005 but eventually "killed" in the Senate. This book examines all these issues, discussing the reasons for migration, the profile of the migrants, how the process of migration works and how the migrants obtain their U.S. visas, where they work once in the United States and their intentions with regards to their possible return home. This book explores the reality of post-Soviet migration where the mostly well-educated former professionals end up in low-wage unskilled jobs as domestic workers, child care givers, and construction workers, sometimes in exploitative labor situations. Overall, this book provides a detailed account of post-Soviet illegal migration to the United States, focusing in particular on Central Asian and Georgian migrants, and will be of interest to scholars of US politics as well as Russia, Central Asia,and the Caucasus specialists.-adapted from Amazon.com