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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810946303321

Titolo

International migration and security : opportunities and challenges / / edited by Elspeth Guild and Joanne van Selm

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2005

ISBN

1-134-33953-4

1-134-33954-2

0-203-39034-2

1-280-14711-3

0-203-23658-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Collana

Transnationalism

Altri autori (Persone)

GuildElspeth

SelmJoanne van

Disciplina

325

Soggetti

Emigration and immigration - Government policy

Immigrants - Government policy

National security

Terrorism - Prevention

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

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Immigration and Regional Security; 2 Rights Spillovers; 3 Human Rights for Immigrants and Immigrants for Human Rights; 4 From Foreigners to 'Abnormal Aliens'; 5 Immigrants and the Host Polity; 6 Cultural and Identity Security; 7 Immigrants, Refugees and Racism; 8 Language and Immigration; 9 Global, National and Local Identities; 10 Immigration and the Welfare State; 11 Migration: A Threat or an Asset to Health?

12 Homeownership and the Integration of Immigrants in the United States13 Digestible Difference: Food, Ethnicity and Spatial Claims in the City; 14 Feeding the Festive City; Conclusions; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Every day newspapers in the Western world carry articles about illegal immigrants, asylum seekers and other migrants. The focus of these articles varies greatly from migrants as a threat to one or another



important social or societal interest, to migrants as an important asset to those same interests. The tone is most often emotional - whichever way the focus goes. The overall impact is to confuse: is migration good or bad? In this book Guild and van Selm seek to investigate these value assessments regarding migrants in Europe, the USA, Canada and Australia. While looking at issues such as sec