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Do Immigrants Ever Oppose Immigration?
This paper analyses immigrants' views about immigration, filling an important void in the immigration literature. In particular, it explores the role of statistical discrimination as a cause of possible opposition to immigration in absence of stringent immigration policies and large volumes of undocumented immigration.
Tani Bertuol, Massimiliano +1 more
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Reason for immigration and immigrants' health [PDF]
The existing literature on the health trajectories of the UK immigrants has mainly focussed on the relationship between ethnicity and health. There is little information on the role of immigration status and no previous information on the role of reason for immigration to the country.
Giuntella, O +3 more
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Dual Allegiances? Immigrants’ Attitudes toward Immigration [PDF]
This article develops a model of immigrants’ attitudes towards immigration. We focus on two competing motivations to explain these attitudes: while kinship, solidarity, and shared experiences with other immigrants should lead to more favorable attitudes towards immigration, formal integration into a new society may create a new allegiance to the host ...
Just, Aida, Anderson, Christopher J.
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Immigrant Selection Systems and Immigrant Health [PDF]
This paper is an analysis of the determinants of self‐reported health status of immigrants, with a particular focus on the type of visa used to gain admission. The empirical analysis uses the three waves of the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia (panel I).
Chiswick, B., Lee, Y., Miller, Paul
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AbstractImmigration is highly salient for voters in Europe and the USA and has generated considerable academic debate about the causes of preferences over immigration. This debate centers around the relative influences of sociotropic or personal economic considerations, as well as noneconomic threats.
Hix, Simon +2 more
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Immigration Amnesty and Immigrant's Earnings [PDF]
We review the role immigration amnesties have played in US immigration policy, placing them in the context of similar programs embarked upon by other nations. The theory of amnesties suggests rent-seeking, bargaining, and costs as reasons for a country offering an amnesty, often in conjunction with increased border controls, internal enforcement and ...
Ira N. Gang, Myeong-Su Yun
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Immigration Versus Immigrant: The Cycle of Anti-Immigrant Policies
The authors comment on how U.S. immigration and health policies are related, focusing on how stigma, discrimination, and stress experienced by immigrants can reduce health. Particular attention is given to the differences between immigration laws and policies and immigrant laws and policies before the authors discuss anti-immigrant policies since the ...
Steven P, Wallace +1 more
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Immigrant workers are foreign-born individuals employed in tourism and hospitality. The sector often relies heavily on immigrant workers, and new migrants frequently enter the labour market through employment in tourism and hospitality. Migrants remain overrepresented in some sectors and domains of organisational activity.
Janta, Hania, Lugosi, Peter
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"The ethnosizer, a new measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is proposed using information on language, culture, societal interaction, history of migration, and ethnic selfidentification. A two-dimensional version classifies immigrants into four states: integration, assimilation, separation and marginalization.
Constant, Amelie +2 more
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Immigrant Entrepreneurship [PDF]
We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quantities immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple definitions.
Kerr, Sari Pekkala, Kerr, William
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