Immigration worldwide: policies, practices, and trends

International migrants comprise one in 35 people, or 3% of the world's population. This sweeping sourcebook explores immigration policies and processes in 25 countries and two world regions, serving as a valuable reference for scholars and students seeking a wide-ranging yet nuanced survey of key issues salient to debates about how to best serve immigrant populations and their host countries. INDICE: I. Introduction; 1.: The Immigration Process; Uma A. Segal, Nazneen S. Mayadas & Doreen Elliott; 2.: Immigration Worldwide: Trends and Analysis; Doreen Elliott, Nazneen S. Mayadas & Uma A. Segal ; II. Nations with LargeImmigrant Populations; 3.: The Changing Face of the United States of America;Uma A. Segal; 4.: Immigration to Russia; Vladimir Iontsev, Irina Ivakhnyuk & Svetlana Soboleva; 5.: Immigration in Germany; Andrea Schmelz; 6.: Immigrationto France: The Challenge of Immigrant Integration; Ines Michalowski; 7.: Immigration to Canada; Usha George; 8.: The Dynamics of Hospitality; Ranabir Samaddar; 9.: Immigration in the United Kingdom; Will Somerville & Betsy Cooper; 10.: Spain: A 'New Immigration Centre'; David Corkill; 11.: A Land of Immigrants; Mel Gray & Kyile Agllias; 12.: Refugee History and Policies of Pakistan: An Afghan Case Study; Shireen S. Issa, Gail Desmond & Fariyal Ross-Sherif ; III. Nations with Increasing Immigrant Populations ; 13.: Immigration to Greece; Anna Triandafyllidou; 14.: From emigrant to immigrant society-transition and change in the Republic of Ireland; Treasa Galvin; 15.: The New Immigration to Israel: Becoming a de-facto Immigration State in the 1990s; Rebeca Raijman & Adriana Kemp; 16.: Amorphous Population Movements into Poland and Ensuing Policy Challenges; Aleksandra Grzymala-Kazlowska & Marek Okólski; 17.: Changing tides in the South Pacific: Immigration to Aotearoa New Zealand; Richard D. Bedford & Jacques Poot; 18.: Immigration to Portugal; João Casqueira Cardoso; 19.: TheImmigration and Integration Experience: the case of Sweden; Pieter Bevelander; IV. Nations with Low or Declining Immigrant Populations; 20.: Immigration to Egypt; Ayman Zohry; 21.: Immigration to Thailand: The Case of Migrant Workers from Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia; Supang Chantavanich & Ratchada Jayagupta; 22.: Immigration to Taiwan; Joseph S. Lee; 23.: China: a New Pole for Immigration; Kim-wah Chung, Ji Qi, & Wenruo Hou; 24.: Immigration to Post-Apartheid South Africa: Critical Reflections; Brij Maharaj; 25.: Immigration to Ghana; A. Essuman-Johnson; 26.: Experiences of Immigration in Nigeria; Adejumoke A. Afolayan; 27.: Immigration in Brazil: The insertion of different groups; Zeila de Brito Fabri Demartini; V. Regional Movements ; 28.: Return and Resettlement: A Survey of Refugee Law and Policy in Africa; Andrew J. Novak; 29.: Immigration and the European Union; Karen Lyons & Nathalie Huegler ; VI. Concluding Chapter; 30.: Emerging Themes and Implications; Doreen Elliott, Uma A. Segal & Nazneen S. Mayadas

• ISBN: 978-0-19-538813-8
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 492
• Fecha Publicación: 04/02/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés