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From Low-Skilled to Key Workers: The Implications of Emergencies for Immigration Policy. [PDF]

open access: yesOxf Rev Econ Policy, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased public awareness of the extent to which the economy relies on a low-wage workforce. Many of those lower-waged occupations that have been recognised as essential in the emergency are heavily dependent on migrant workers.
Fernández-Reino M   +2 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Rethinking immigration policy theory beyond 'Western liberal democracies'. [PDF]

open access: yesComp Migr Stud, 2018
How do political systems shape immigration policy-making? Explicitly or implicitly, comparative politics and migration policy theories suggest a ‘regime effect’ that links specific dynamics of immigration policy to liberal democracy.
Natter K.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Association of Perceived Immigration Policy Vulnerability With Mental and Physical Health Among US-Born Latino Adolescents in California.

open access: yesJAMA Pediatr, 2019
Importance Current US immigration policy targets immigrants from Mexico and other Latin American countries; anti-immigration rhetoric has possible implications for the US-born children of immigrant parents.
Eskenazi B   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Explaining the immigration policy mix: Countries' relative openness to asylum and labour migration

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Political Research, 2020
Western democracies have developed complex policies to manage migration flows. Much of the scholarly literature and political discourse assume that countries have become increasingly selective and that they prioritise economic intakes.
Caroline Schultz, Philip Lutz, S. Simon
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Of Love and Papers: How Immigration Policy Affects Romance and Family

open access: yes, 2020
Of Love and Papers explores how immigration policies are fundamentally reshaping Latino families. Drawing on interviews with undocumented young adults, Enriquez investigates how immigration status creeps into the most personal aspects of everyday life ...
Laura E. Enriquez
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Political party ideology and immigration policy reform: an empirical enquiry

open access: yes, 2020
What drives the restrictiveness of immigration reforms? To what extent does the political ideology of parties in government and parliament matter? Drawing on immigration policy data offering unprecedented historical and geographical coverage, we analyse ...
Katharina Natter, M. Czaika, H. Haas
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Mental Health of Hispanic/Latino Americans Following National Immigration Policy Changes: United States, 2014-2018.

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Public Health, 2019
Objectives. To examine the relationship between aggressive enforcement of anti-immigration policies and mental health among Hispanics/Latinos in the United States before and after major national immigration policy changes.Methods.
Emilie Bruzelius, Aaron Baum
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Convergence, capitalist diversity, or political volatility? Immigration policy in Western Europe

open access: yesJournal of European Public Policy, 2019
Are immigration policies in European countries converging? Or do some countries remain more open to immigrants than others? We address these questions through an analysis of labour migration policies in five European countries from 1990 to 2016. Using an
Erica Consterdine, James Hampshire
semanticscholar   +1 more source

From IIRIRA to Trump: Connecting the Dots to the Current US Immigration Policy Crisis

open access: yesJournal on Migration and Human Security, 2018
When signing into law the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA, or “the Act”), 1 President William J. Clinton asserted that the legislation strengthened “the rule of law by cracking down on illegal immigration at ...
Donald M. Kerwin
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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