International Migration and Security: Opportunities and Challenges

by Guild; Elspeth

• ISBN13: 9780415326544
• ISBN10: 0415326540
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-06-17
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Are immigrants an asset or a threat? Every day newspapers in the Western world carry articles about illegal immigrants, asylum seekers and other migrants. The focus of these articles varies greatly from migrants as a threat to one or another important social or societal interest, to migrants as an important asset to those same interests. International Migration and Security brings information and analysis to the immigration debate. Experts from a variety of different disciplines-ranging from urban planning to judicial reform-are collected n this volume to consider the impact that and the concept of immigration has on their field. The key question examined is how movement of persons affects areas as diverse as health, national security, the welfare of state, cuisine, identity, law and human rights, and the political, social and legal results. This innovative and interdisciplinary book provides new insight into the debates around immigration in the twenty-first century and will beof interest to all students and researchers in the area.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Notes on Contributors	x
Acknowledgements	xvii
Introduction	1	(8)
JOANNE VAN SELM
PART I Political and Legal Security	9	(90)
1 Immigration and Regional Security	11	(17)
JOANNE VAN SELM
2 Rights Spillovers	28	(23)
JACQUELINE BHABHA
3 Human Rights for Immigrants and Immigrants for Human Rights	51	(13)
MORTEN KJAERUM
4 From Foreigners to 'Abnormal Aliens'	64	(18)
DIDIER BIGO
5 Immigrants and the Host Polity	82	(19)
JEANNETTE MONEY
PART II Cultural and Identity Security	99	(58)
6 Cultural and Identity Security	101	(12)
ELSPETH GUILD
7 Immigrants, Refugees and Racism	113	(16)
ZRINKA BRALO AND JOHN MORRISON
8 Language and Immigration	129	(18)
SUSAN FORBES MARTIN
9 Global, National and Local Identities	147	(10)
MAGGIE ANN BOWERS
PART III Personal and Economic Security	157	(98)
10 Immigration and the Welfare State	159	(15)
ANDREW GEDDES
11 Migration: a Threat or an Asset to Health?	174	(17)
PETER POORE
12 Homeownership and the Integration of Immigrants in the United States	191	(26)
ANDREW I. SGHOENHOLTZ
13 Digestible Difference	217	(21)
SUSAN M. THOMPSON
14 Feeding the Festive City	238	(17)
JAN RATH
PART IV Conclusion	255	(16)
Conclusions	257	(14)
ELSPETH GUILD
Index	271