Migration and public policy [Book] / edited by Vaughan Robinson.

"An Edward Elgar collection."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

An economic audit of contemporary immigration / Allan Findlay -- Ethics, national sovereignty and the control of immigration / Myron Weiner -- Pakistani workers in the Middle East: volume, trends and consequences / Nasra M. Shah -- Toward a structural analysis of illegal (undocumented) immigration / Alejandro Portes -- Economic growth and immigration in Venezuela / Saskia Sassen-Koob -- From "white Australia" to "part of Asia": recent shifts in Australian immigration policy towards the region / James Jupp -- International migration of professionals / Judith A. Fortney -- From settlers to skilled transients: the changing structure of British international migration / A.M. Findlay -- The changing nature and European perceptions of Europe's refugee problem / Vaughan Robinson -- Problems and policies regarding the socio-economic integration of returnees and foreign workers in Greece / Nicholas P. Glytsos -- Population movement in Zhejiang Province, China: the impact of government policies / Xiushi Yang and Sidney Goldstein -- Population redistribution policies in Great Britain / James H. Johnson and John Salt -- The transmigration programme in Indonesian national development strategy: current status and future requirements / Thomas R. Leinbach -- Settling for war: Soviet immigration and Israel's settlement policy in east Jerusalem / Joost R. Hiltermann -- Comprehensive segregation: the origins of the Group Areas Act and its planning apparatuses / Alan Mabin -- "Ethnic cleansing": a metaphor for our time? / Akbar S. Ahmed -- Europe, Africa, and international migration: an uncomfortable triangle of interests / Kimberly A. Hamilton -- The impact of western European border policies on the control of "refugees" in eastern and central Europe / Mike King -- Internal refugee flows and development-induced population displacement / Michael M. Cernea -- Government policies and international migration of skilled workers in sub-Saharan Africa / William T.S. Gould -- Public housing as a barrier to long-distance migration / Paul Boyle -- The commitment to refugee resettlement / Barry N. Stein -- Admission policy, patterns of migration and integration: the German and French case compared / Wolfgang Seifert -- Value-oriented parameters in migration policies in the 1990s: the Israeli experience / Tamar Horowitz -- Out of place in the country: travellers and the "rural idyll" / Keith H. Halfacree -- The practice of racial dispersal in Birmingham, 1969-1975 / Hazel Flett, Jeff Henderson and Bill Brown -- Up the creek without a paddle?: Britain's boat people ten years on / Vaughan Robinson -- The development of policies for the resettlement of quota refugees in the UK, 1945-91 / Vaughan Robinson -- Migrant remittances and development / Sharon Stanton Russell -- Environmental concerns and international migration / Graeme Hugo -- Indochinese refugees in Canada: sponsorship and adjustment / Gertrud Neuwirth and Lynn Clark -- Labelling refugees: forming and transforming a bureaucratic identity / Roger Zetter.

This work brings together significant papers on international and internal migration. It investigates the role of governments in enouraging, discouraging or forcing migration. The book critically approves the motivation for state intervention under a variety of headings.

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