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As debates about migrants and refugees reverberate around the
world, this book offers an important first-hand account of how
migration is being approached at the highest levels of
international governance. Whereas refugees have long been protected
by international law, migrants have been treated differently, with
no international consensus definition and no one international
migration system. This all changed in September 2016, when the 193
members of the United Nations unanimously adopted the New York
Declaration on Refugees and Migrants, laying the groundwork for the
creation of governance frameworks for migrants and refugees
worldwide. This book provides a fly on the wall analysis of the
opportunities and challenges of the two new Global Compacts on
Refugees and Migration as governments, international NGOs,
multilateral institutions and other actors develop and negotiate
them. Looking beyond the compacts, the book considers migration
governance over time, and asks the bigger questions of what the
international community can do on the one hand to affirm and
strengthen safe, orderly and regular migration to help drive
economic growth and prosperity, whilst on the other hand responding
to the problems caused by increasing numbers of refugees and
irregular migrants. This highly engaging and informative account
will be of interest to policy-makers, academics and students
concerned with global migration and refugee governance.
As debates about migrants and refugees reverberate around the
world, this book offers an important first-hand account of how
migration is being approached at the highest levels of
international governance. Whereas refugees have long been protected
by international law, migrants have been treated differently, with
no international consensus definition and no one international
migration system. This all changed in September 2016, when the 193
members of the United Nations unanimously adopted the New York
Declaration on Refugees and Migrants, laying the groundwork for the
creation of governance frameworks for migrants and refugees
worldwide. This book provides a fly on the wall analysis of the
opportunities and challenges of the two new Global Compacts on
Refugees and Migration as governments, international NGOs,
multilateral institutions and other actors develop and negotiate
them. Looking beyond the compacts, the book considers migration
governance over time, and asks the bigger questions of what the
international community can do on the one hand to affirm and
strengthen safe, orderly and regular migration to help drive
economic growth and prosperity, whilst on the other hand responding
to the problems caused by increasing numbers of refugees and
irregular migrants. This highly engaging and informative account
will be of interest to policy-makers, academics and students
concerned with global migration and refugee governance.
In this volume of The ANNALS the editors argue that illegal
immigration arose as feature of capitalist globalization in the
20th century. The collected research papers explore the origins of
undocumented migration in our contemporary global economy, and show
the consequences of so-called illegal immigration both for migrants
and for a number of host countries. The methodological challenges
involved in studying clandestine population movements are also
advanced by example.
Since Mexico-U.S. migration represents the largest sustained
migratory flow between two nations worldwide, much of the
theoretical and empirical work on migration has focused on this
single case. In the last few decades, however, migration has
emerged as a critical issue across all nations in Latin America and
the Caribbean, with the region seeing its position changed from a
net migrant-receiving region to one that now stands as one of the
foremost sending areas of the world. In this latest volume of the
ANNALS, leading migration scholars seek to redress the imbalance
offered when only studying a single case with the first systematic
assessment of Latin American migration patterns using ongoing
research on the Mexican case as a basis for comparison. Each
chapter examines specific propositions or findings derived from the
Mexican case that have not yet been tested for other Latin American
or Caribbean nations. Using a common framework of data, methods,
and theories, they offer a new perspective on the causes and
consequences of migration in the Western Hemisphere. The authors
examine four fundamental questions: What are the individual
determinants and basic processes of movement? How do we identify
and understand the larger structural causes that ultimately
underlie individual and household decisions to move? What are the
consequences of migration for individuals, households, and
communities in sending and receiving nations? And what effect do
governmental attempts to control the quantity and quality of
immigrants have on the actual size and composition of the resulting
international flows? Using comparable data from the Mexican
Migration Project (MMP) and the Latin American Migration Project
(LAMP), the most comprehensive and reliable source of data on
immigration from Latin America and the Caribbean, the volume offers
valuable insight into 118 Mexican communities and 35 communities
from seven other nations of Latin America and the Caribbean,
including Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Peru, Paraguay, Argentina, Haiti,
and the Dominican Republic, as well as Puerto Rico. In this volume,
comparative research is shown to be critical to building an
accurate theoretical and substantive understanding of migration.
Through the authors' findings, we are shown what is possible when
researchers are able to draw on a common source of comparable data
to study migratory decision-making and outcomes across diverse
origin countries. Specific outcomes help the authors to identify:
common characteristics of pioneer migrants; gender effects on
migration; the role that political shocks and violence can play in
promoting emigration during times of political and economic
transition; differences in the education profiles of emigrants from
Latin American countries that lie at different ends of the migrant
selectivity continuum; the important influence of remittances sent
home by migrants and the migrants' occupational prospects once they
return home; and the effect of U.S. immigration policies on the
behavior and characteristics of immigrants. This comparative
approach to the study of migration represents a unique and
innovative contribution to scholarship on international migration-a
topic of considerable interest in the twenty-first century.
Political scientists, sociologists, and policy-makers will find
much value in these compelling and timely readings. For all social
scientists who are interested in ethnic studies and migration, this
volume provides inspiration for future research.
The second edition of The Sociology of Katrina brings together the
nation's top sociological researchers in an effort to deepen our
understanding of the modern catastrophe that is Hurricane Katrina.
Five years after the storm, its profound impact continues to be
felt. This new edition explores emerging themes, as well as ongoing
issues that continue to besiege survivors. The book has been
updated and revised throughout--from data about recovery efforts
and environmental conditions, to discussions of major social issues
in education, health care, the economy, and crime. The authors
thoroughly review the important topic of recovery, both in New
Orleans and in the wider area of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. This
new edition features a new chapter focused on the Katrina
experience for people in the primary impact area, or "ground zero,"
five years after the storm. This chapter uncovers many challenges
in overcoming the critical problems caused by the storm of the
century. From this important update of the acclaimed first edition,
it is apparent that "the storm is not over," as Katrina continues
to generate political, economic, community, and personal
controversy.
The second edition of The Sociology of Katrina brings together the
nation's top sociological researchers in an effort to deepen our
understanding of the modern catastrophe that is Hurricane Katrina.
Five years after the storm, its profound impact continues to be
felt. This new edition explores emerging themes, as well as ongoing
issues that continue to besiege survivors. The book has been
updated and revised throughout from data about recovery efforts and
environmental conditions, to discussions of major social issues in
education, health care, the economy, and crime. The authors
thoroughly review the important topic of recovery, both in New
Orleans and in the wider area of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. This
new edition features a new chapter focused on the Katrina
experience for people in the primary impact area, or "ground zero,"
five years after the storm. This chapter uncovers many challenges
in overcoming the critical problems caused by the storm of the
century. From this important update of the acclaimed first edition,
it is apparent that "the storm is not over," as Katrina continues
to generate political, economic, community, and personal
controversy.
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