Securitizing Immigration deals with the growing concern for immigration as a matter of security at the EU level. It combines an analysis of the way bureaucratic and political processes have interacted in the integration process with an analysis of how these practices are located in a context shaped by the preoccupation with risk.

A Twogenerational Approach in Germany. .

When restrictive immigration laws were introduced in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, they involved new requirements for photographing and documenting immigrants - regulations for visually inspecting race and health. This work looks at the history of immigration policy in the United States through the prism of visual culture.

How does the process of globalisation relate to the increase of migratory flows from less developed countries to western ones? This book explores the impact of globalisation upon migration from an international political economy perspective, paying attention to the dynamics of migration from the Middle East and North Africa area.

This title depicts how immigrant women use international migration as a strategy to challenge existing patriarchal hegemonies operative both in the United States and Africa. It also weaves together the multidimensional strands of how African immigrant women shape and are shaped by the process of international migration.

Argues that immigration was a defining feature of early-twentieth-century France. This book examines the political, cultural, and social issues implicated in public debates about immigration and national identity at the time.

What does it take to become a citizen of a particular nation? Is it justified to restrict membership of a society, and if so, on what grounds? This book explores a series of pressing, controversial issues surrounding the acquisition of citizenship, in theory and practice.

Explores the lives and testimonies of three generations of African women in Cape Town during the apartheid (1948-94) and post-apartheid periods. Through life histories, this title considers how African women differently experienced apartheid, offering an intimate account of their attempts to locate 'home' in the urban setting.

When restrictive immigration laws were introduced in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, they involved new requirements for photographing and documenting immigrants - regulations for visually inspecting race and health. This work looks at the history of immigration policy in the United States through the prism of visual culture.

This work examines the increasing trend in transnationalism. Through ethnographic studies of immigrant populations from St Vincent, Grenada, Haiti and the Philippines to the United States, it aims to demonstrate that transnationalism challenges the concepts of citizenship and nationhood.

As Europe struggles to control immigration from the developing world, the EU's southern flank is perceived as the weak flank of Fortress Europe . This book examines the many facets of the impact and implications of Southern Europe's new immigrants.

International migration has come to play a central role in the social, economic and demographic dynamics of both immigrant-sending and immigrant-receiving countries. This text aims to present a comprehensive theory of international migration, examining various hypotheses and propositions.

Intends to present the difficulties that researchers working with migrants in precarious situations have to contend with, and to contribute to the development of methodological and ethical discussions relevant to the topic of migration as an interdisciplinary field of research. This book is suitable for those dealing with vulnerable migrants.

The period 1337 to 1750 has been widely regarded as a crucial one in the forging of a new sense of national identity. Topics covered include the foundations of immigrant communities, legal and economic statue, wealth and poverty, economic and cultural impacts and assimilation.

The story of the exodus of Jews from Lithuania to South Africa and then on again to Australia is one of the most extraordinary. This book presents a study of a double translocation. It follows the footsteps of Lithuanian and Latvian-descended Jews from their ancestral European homes to South Africa and then again, to Australia and New Zealand.

Advanced media technologies have transformed immigrants' relations with their departure and arrival societies. This title explores how Muslim-Arab religious scholars have developed over the years a theory that tasks Muslims living in the West with specific duties within the framework of their anticipated global Muslim nation.

On February 17, 2005, two border patrol agents fired at a suspected drug smuggler. The two were sentenced to jail. The federal prosecutor in Texas declared that the conviction upheld the rule of law. But many in Congress and the media contend that the agents were just doing their jobs. This book details the issue.

Examines a region of Mexico whose citizens have been migrating to the United States for more than a century. This book states that emigrant citizenship does not signal the decline of the nation-state but does lead to a form of citizenship, and that bureaucratic efforts to manage emigration are based on the membership model of the Catholic Church.

Explores the nature and complexity of the movement of people, cultures, and ideas in historical context. This volume contains articles that examine population movements and their demographic, social, political, legal, and cultural causes and consequences in Medieval and Modern Europe, South Asia, Israel, and China.