Controlling Immigration: A Global Perspective

Book Overview

In the 1990s, immigration emerged as a central issue of public policy and a driving factor in democratic elections throughout the world. Modern democracies now all face the same questions: how many... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804724989
• ISBN13: 9780804724982
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.1" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

a nice work

this book is comprehensive review of the immigration policies in industrialized world. It is well-writen for both policy makers and political science students.

good account of global immigration

The editors of 'Controlling Immigration' have provided a detailed account of how various countries have dealth with immigration through assimilation, policy, legislation and why immigrants choose certain countries. The book is split up into 3 categories 1) contries of immigratino (U.S, Canada, and Australia) 2) Reluctant countries of immigration ( France, Germancy, Netherlands, and Britain) andd 3) latecomers to immigratin (Italy, Spain, Japan and South Korea. The book does provide a great deal of background to contemporary immigration.