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Wanted and Welcome?: Policies for Highly Skilled Immigrants in Comparative Perspective (Immigrants and Minorities, Politics and Policy Book 0) by Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos, Craig D. Smith (auth.), Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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This book considers the origins, performance and diffusion of national immigration policies targeting highly skilled immigrants. Unlike asylum seekers and immigrants admitted under family reunification streams, highly skilled immigrants are typically cast as “wanted and welcome” as a consequence of their potential economic contribution to the receiving society and putative assimilability. Testing the degree to which this assumption holds is the principle aim of this book. In contrast to publications which see highly skilled immigration as functional response to labor market needs, the book probes the political and sociological dimensions of policy, drawing on contributions from an international group of established and new scholars from the fields of history, law, political science, sociology, and public policy. The book is organized into four parts. Part I probes the origins of post-WWII immigration policies in Canada, Australia, and the United States. Part II analyzes recent debates on highly skilled immigration policy in the United States, whose origins go back to the 1965 Act by Congress which favored family reunification over skilled immigration. Part III considers the degree
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- Author
- Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos, Craig D. Smith (auth.), Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos (eds.)
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781461400813
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Economics, Politics
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