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Policy towards asylum seekers has been a controversial topic for more than a decade. Rising numbers of asylum applications have been met with ever-tougher policies to deter them. Following a period of policy harmonisation, the EU has reached a crucial stage in the development of a new Common...
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Australia’s policies towards asylum seekers hit the headlines when it refused to admit those aboard the Tampa in September 2001. This tough stance and the raft of legislation that followed became known as Australia’s ‘Pacific Solution’. It was clearly intended to deter those who might...
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Policy towards asylum seekers has been a controversial topic for more than a decade. Rising numbers of asylum applications have been met with ever-tougher policies to deter them. Following a period of policy harmonisation, the EU has reached a crucial stage in the development of a new Common...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822265
There is a large econometric literature that examines the economic assimilation of immigrants in the United States and … that history matters in immigrant assimilation: the stronger is the tradition of immigration from a given source country …
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Historical experience suggests that when a period of rising immigration is followed by a sudden slump, this can trigger a policy backlash. This has not occurred in the current recession. This paper examines three links in the chain between the slump and immigration policy. First, although...
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The number of refugees worldwide is now 12 million, up from 3 million in the early 1970s. And the number seeking asylum in the developed world increased tenfold, from about 50,000 per annum to half a million over the same period. Governments and international agencies have grappled with the twin...
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Most labor scarce overseas countries moved decisively to restrict their immigration during the first third of the 20th century. This autarchic retreat from unrestricted and even publiclysubsidized immigration in the first global century before World War I to the quotas and bans introduced...
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prominent in Africa today, but do or can Africans respond to them with the same elasticity as in the days of ?free? migration …? Our new estimates of net migration and labor market performance for the countries of sub-Saharan Africa suggest that … exactly the same forces are at work driving African across-border migration today. Rapid growth in the cohort of young …
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the evolution of policy: the decline in the costs of migration and its impact on immigrant selectivity, a secular switch … explanations for the between-country variance in voter anti-trade and anti-migration attitude, and links this to the fundamentals …
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organised around six themes that include: the forces driving migration, over time and across space; the assimilation of migrants …This is a survey of some of the key studies in the literature on international migration in history that may be … migrations. Here I focus on the period 1850 to 1940 and chiefly on migration from Europe to the New World. The survey is …
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