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Permanent Legal Immigration to the United States: Policy Overview [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Four major principles currently underlie U.S. policy on legal permanent immigration: the reunification of families, the admission of immigrants with needed skills, the protection of refugees, and the diversity of admissions by country of origin.
Kandel, William A
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Immigration and Poverty Reduction: Policy Making on a Squirrel Wheel [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Efforts in the US to reduce the incidence of poverty have been hampered, since 1965, by the parallel revival of mass immigration. As a consequence, any serious attempt to reduce poverty must now include comprehensive reforms in the nation\u27s ...
Briggs , Vernon M. , Jr.
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Immigration as Commerce: A New Look at the Federal Immigration Power and the Constitution [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The relationship of immigration law to the Constitution has long been incoherent. One result is that there is little clarity on the appropriate standard of review for constitutional violations when aspects of immigration law and policy are challenged in ...
Gordon, Jennifer
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How Changes to Family Immigration Could Affect Source Countries' Sending Patterns [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The Senate immigration bill (The Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Reform Act of 2007) includes a fundamental revision of family-based permanent immigration streams.

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The effect of immigration on the adaptation of microbial communities to warming [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Theory predicts that immigration can either enhance or impair the rate at which species and whole communities adapt to environmental change, depending on the traits of genotypes and species in the source pool relative to local conditions. These responses
Barraclough, TG, Bell, T, Lawrence, D
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Immigration, Criminalization, and Disobedience [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This symposium essay explores two contending visions of immigration justice: one focused on expanding procedural rights for immigrants, and a second associated with a movement of immigrant youth who have come out en masse as “undocumented and unafraid ...
McLeod, Allegra M.
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Leaving the Devil You Know: Crime Victimization, US Deterrence Policy, and the Emigration Decision in Central America

open access: yesLatin American Research Review, 2018
Following a sharp increase in the number of border arrivals from the violence-torn countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras in the spring and summer of 2014, the United States quickly implemented a strategy designed to prevent such surges by ...
Jonathan T. Hiskey   +3 more
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Relationship between career maturity, psychological separation, and occupational self-efficacy of postgraduates: moderating effect of registered residence type

open access: yesBMC Psychology, 2023
Background With the slowdown of economic growth and the increasing pressure of employment competition worldwide during the normalized epidemic prevention and control, the job-hunting intention and behavior of college graduates deserve in-depth study ...
Jianchao Ni   +4 more
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'Descended from immigrants and revolutionists': how family immigration history shapes representation in Congress [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Does recent immigrant lineage influence the legislative behavior of members of Congress on immigration policy? We examine the relationship between the immigrant background of legislators (i.e., their generational distance from immigration) and ...
Feigenbaum, James   +2 more
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Understanding Attitudes to Immigration: The Migration and Minority Module of the first European Social Survey [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Immigration control is an issue that figures prominently in public policy discussions and election campaigns throughout Europe. Although immigration may have positive effects on economic efficiency and growth in the receiving economy, it is often the ...
Card, D, Dustmann, C, Preston, I
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