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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790113203321

Autore

Ho Christine G. T. <1943->

Titolo

Humane migration [[electronic resource] ] : establishing legitimacy and rights for displaced people / / Christine G.T. Ho and James Loucky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sterling, Va., : Kumarian Press Pub., 2012

ISBN

1-56549-380-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LouckyJames

Disciplina

325

Soggetti

Emigration and immigration

Human rights

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""1 Seeing the Humanity of Migration in the Migration of Humanity""; ""The Emergence of Nation-States and Borders""; ""Mass Movements, Global Unease""; ""The Beneficence of Migration""; ""From Politics of Exclusion to Communities of Inclusion""; ""Goals and Outline of This Book""; ""2 Globalization and Why Migration Happens""; ""Economic Globalization and Migration""; ""The Unholy Trinity and Migration""; ""Labor Recruitment and Migration, Part I: Guest Worker Programs""

""Labor Recruitment and Migration, Part II: Direct Recruitment and Labor Exportation""""Human Smuggling, Trafficking, and the Migration Industry""; ""Colonization, Military Intervention, and Migration""; ""Mexico-US Migration: Up Close and Personal""; ""Family Sacrifices""; ""Fractured Families""; ""Creative Survival: Undocumented Migration and Smuggling""; ""3 The Global Immigration Panic""; ""Immigration: An Emotional Issue""; ""Job Theft, Depressed Wages, and Unemployment: Fact or Fiction?""; ""Tax Evaders and Welfare Magnets: Fact or Fiction?""

""American Identity and Cultural Loss: Fact or Fiction?""""Fear-Based US Immigration Laws of Yesterday""; ""Fear-Based US Immigration Laws Today""; ""Shadowed Lives""; ""Hate Crimes and Other Atrocities""; ""Border Games""; ""4 This Land Is My Land, This Land Is Not Your Land""; ""(B)ordering""; ""The American Border""; ""Death Along the US-Mexico Border""; ""The Economics of Nativism""; ""No Longer Distant Neighbors?""; ""The Immigration-Security Nexus""; ""Breaks in a Broken



System""; ""Borderblur""; ""To Be(long) or Not to Be(long): From Bordered Lands to Common Ground""

""5 Criminalizing Migrants, Containing Migration""""Institutionalized Hostility, Part I: The US Immigrant Detention System""; ""Institutionalized Hostility, Part II: The US Prison Industry""; ""The Technology of Governing Immigration""; ""Conflating US Immigration With Crime and Terrorism""; ""Racial Inequality in US Immigration Policies and Practices""; ""6 Learning From Others, Living With Others""; ""Paradoxes and Blind Spots""; ""Migration and the Politics of Inequality""; ""Cosmopolitan Canada""; ""Lessons From Down Under""; ""As Europe Goes . . .""; ""Caribbean Intraregional Migration""

""Lessons From One Caribbean Transnational Family""""Follow the Money: Transnational Connections and Transformed Communities""; ""Brain Drain or Brain Gain?""; ""Legal Remedies""; ""7 E Pluribus Unum""; ""Mesoamericans in Middle America""; ""DREAM Act or Dreams Hacked?""; ""Common Sense Versus Common Nonsense""; ""Challenges to Comprehensive Immigration Reform""; ""Integration Is Integral""; ""Contours of Sane and Humane Migration Policy""; ""American Mosaic""; ""8 Right to Move, Right to Be""; ""Be Here Now, Be There Soon""; ""War, Refugees, and Migration""

""If Corporations Can Be Persons, People Must Come First""

Sommario/riassunto

* Comprehensive and passionate exploration of the debates surrounding the politics, economics and ethics of international migration* Offers suggestions for humane and rational immigration policies. The popular discourse on immigration in North America and Western Europe is usually framed in terms of violations to national law, fueled by fear and propped up by the myths of nationhood. The rhetoric maintains that immigrants as individuals threaten jobs, the local economy and the cultural identity of a country. But these views fail to consider the ironic reality: that the developed world, which tri