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Immigrants : your country needs them /
"Immigration divides our globalizing world like no other issue. We are swamped by illegal immigrants and infiltrated by terrorists, our jobs stolen, our welfare system abused, our way of life destroyed- or so we are told. At a time when National Guard units are deployed alongside vigilante Minu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2007.
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| Edición: | First Princeton edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. Migration isn't just for the birds : it's time for fresh thinking about immigration
- 1. War on our borders : the hidden costs of immigration controls
- 2. Border crossing : how migrants got to where they are now
- 3. Why we need the huddled masses : the case for low-skilled migration
- 4. The global talent contest : the pros and cons of high-skilled migration
- 5. Cosmopolitan and rich : the economic benefits of diversity
- 6. Stealing our jobs? : do immigrants displace local workers?
- 7. Snouts in our trough? : are immigrants a burden on the welfare state?
- 8. 'Our heroes' : how migration helps poor countries
- 9. Brain drain of brain gain? : the costs and benefits of skilled emigration
- 10. It needn't be forever : the case for temporary migration
- 11. Alien nation? : does immigration threaten national identity?
- 12. Huntington and Hispanics : is Latino immigration splitting America in two?
- 13. Stranger, can you spare a dime? : does immigration threaten social solidarity
- 14. Learning to live together : how to integrate immigrants into society
- 15. Illiberal Islam? : do Muslim immigrants threaten our security and our way of life?
- 16. Open borders : let them in.