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The United States is presently characterized by rising anti-immigrant sentiment, repressive immigration enforcement …
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As often argued, a negative perception of immigration, or even emigration, prevails public opinions and governments in … of its multiple migration roles as a country of emigration, immigration and transit, over time; secondly because, this … ongoing flows of emigration and immigration involve various stages of a migration cycle; thirdly because, this migration cycle …
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opinion polls suggest that residents see controls on immigration as essential and that people would prefer to see existing …
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The main characteristic of the Latin American migration on the 20th century was the change of flow. Until the 1950s, Latin America received migrants from Europe and the Middle East. As a result of economic change, political instability, and economic crisis, Latin America started exporting...
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We analyze a newly available dataset of migration policy decisions reported by governments to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs between 1976 and 2007. We find evidence indicating that most governments have policies aimed at either maintaining the status quo or at...
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Often, immigration debates are conducted under the presumption that immigration policies must be justifiable only to … those who already live in the respective country. Alas, reflection on the justifiability of immigration policies to those … two approaches to the normative reflection on immigration at some depth, namely, the idea that restrictive immigration …
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immigration status. The archetypal precarious resident is the undocumented (or unlawful) migrant. However, there are many other …
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While everyone agrees that GDP per capita is an inadequate measure of a country’s overall “development” it is difficult to specify what, if anything, should take its place as a useful single summary number (or even just ranking). The Human Development Index is a prominent alternative which...
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new dataset on migration flows and stocks and on immigration laws for 14 OECD destination countries and 74 sending … stricter immigration laws. Third, we estimate the impact of immigration flows on employment, investment and productivity in the … receiving OECD countries using as instruments the ”push” factors only in the gravity equation. We find that immigration …
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immigration restrictions have a negative impact on migrants’ wellbeing as well as the poverty and inequality reducing potential of …
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