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International migration and human rights : the global repercussions of U.S. policy /

A multidisciplinary group of scholars examines how the actions of the United States as a global leader are worsening pressures on people worldwide to migrate, while simultaneously degrading migrant rights. Uniting such diverse issues as market reform, drug policy, and terrorism under a common framew...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Martínez, Samuel, 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
Colección:Global, area, and international archive.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The political economy of migration in an era of globalization / Douglas S. Massey
  • Ports of entry in the "Homeland Security" era: inequality of mobility and the securitization of transnational flows / Josiah McC. Heyman
  • The treatment of noncitizens after September 11 in historical context / J.C. Salyer
  • Mexicans of mass destruction: national security and Mexican immigration in a pre- and post-9/11 world / Leo R. Chavez
  • The demonization of persons of Arab and Muslim ancestry in historical perspective / Susan M. Akram and Kevin R. Johnson
  • Security and insecurity in a global "war on terrorism": Arab-Muslim immigrant experience in post-9/11 America / Christopher Dole
  • Policing the borders in the heartland / Nancy A. Naples
  • An anatomy of Mexican repatriation: human rights and the borderlands of complicity / Tricia Gabany-Guerrero
  • Discourses on danger and dreams of prosperity: confounding U.S. government positions on "trafficking" from the former Soviet Union / Alexia Bloch
  • "We are not terrorists!" Uighurs, Tibetans, and the "global war on terror" / Julia Meredith Hess
  • The impact of Plan Colombia on forced displacement / Maria Teresa Restrepo-Ruiz and Samuel Martínez
  • Challenging U.S. silence: international NGOs and the Iraqi refugee crisis / Kathryn Libal and Scott Harding.