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 immigrants to accept, what rights and special services to provide them, and how to control illegal immigration. This book provides a systematic, comparative study of immigration policy and policy outcomes in industrialized democracies. In-depth examinations of the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Japan have been updated for the second edition, and new chapters on Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, and South Korea have been added. Each profile addresses why certain immigration control measures were chosen (or not), and why these measures usually failed to achieve their stated objectives. The discussion has been expanded to address the growing trend of migration of highly skilled professional workers, a particularly hot issue in the United States.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804724970
• ISBN13: 9780804724975
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 456 Pages

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.