LEADER 04679oam 2200769I 450 001 9910458210003321 005 20210504231340.0 010 $a1-135-23052-8 010 $a1-135-23053-6 010 $a1-282-73347-8 010 $a9786612733475 010 $a0-203-87172-3 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203871720 035 $a(CKB)2560000000009773 035 $a(EBL)446871 035 $a(OCoLC)642660932 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000421148 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12172132 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000421148 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10407457 035 $a(PQKB)11560197 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC446871 035 $a(PPN)198455046 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL446871 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10394349 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL273347 035 $a(OCoLC)712991256 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000009773 100 $a20180706d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aIrregular migration from the former Soviet Union to the United States /$fSaltanat Liebert 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2009. 215 $a1 online resource (164 pages) 225 1 $aRoutledge Transnational Crime and Corruption 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-97230-4 311 $a0-415-77692-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [140]-149) and index. 327 $a1 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 330 $aThis book is the first in English to examine irregular migration from post-Soviet states, focusing in particular on migration to the United States. Due to globalization and the end of the Cold War, citizens of the former Soviet Union are on the move as never before. The political, economic, and social changes that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union resulted in widespread poverty and unemployment and also created a large pool of potential migrants. Thousands of individuals from poor post-Soviet countries migrate to the West in search of better-paid work in an effort to provide for themselves and their families both through legal channels, and in their absence, undocumented. In recent years immigration has become a topic of heated debate in many Western countries: the estimated number of undocumented immigrants in the United States has reached 11 million, precipitating a new legislative focus on reforming the immigration system, culminating in the highly controversial Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act passed by the House of Representatives in 2005 but eventually "killed" in the Senate. This book examines all these issues, discussing the reasons for migration, the profile of the migrants, how the process of migration works and how the migrants obtain their U.S. visas, where they work once in the United States and their intentions with regards to their possible return home. This book explores the reality of post-Soviet migration where the mostly well-educated former professionals end up in low-wage unskilled jobs as domestic workers, child care givers, and construction workers, sometimes in exploitative labor situations. Overall, this book provides a detailed account of post-Soviet illegal migration to the United States, focusing in particular on Central Asian and Georgian migrants, and will be of interest to scholars of US politics as well as Russia, Central Asia,and the Caucasus specialists.-adapted from Amazon.com 410 0$aRoutledge transnational crime and corruption series 606 $aImmigrants$zAsia, Central 606 $aImmigrants$zCaucasus 606 $aImmigrants$zFormer Soviet republics 606 $aUndocumented immigrants$zUnited States 607 $aAsia, Central$xEmigration and immigration 607 $aCaucasus$xEmigration and immigration 607 $aFormer Soviet republics$xEmigration and immigration 607 $aUnited States$xEmigration and immigration 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aImmigrants 615 0$aImmigrants 615 0$aImmigrants 615 0$aUndocumented immigrants 676 $a304.8/73047 700 $aLiebert$b Saltanat.$0907844 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458210003321 996 $aIrregular migration from the former Soviet Union to the United States$92030716 997 $aUNINA