International migration and security : opportunities and challenges / edited by Elspeth Guild & Joanne van Selm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Immigration and regional security / Joanne van Selm -- Rights spillovers / Jacqueline Bhabha -- Human rights for immigrants and immigrants for human rights / Morten Kjaerum -- From foreigners to 'abnormal aliens' / Didier Bigo -- Immigrants and the host polity / Jeannette Money -- Cultural and identity security / Elspeth Guild -- Immigrants, refugees and racism / Zrinka Bralo and John Morrison -- Language and immigration / Susan Forbes Martin -- Global, national and local identities / Maggie Ann Bowers -- Immigration and the welfare state / Andrew Geddes -- Migration : a threat or an asset to health? / Peter Poore -- Homeownership and the integration of immigrants in the United States / Andrew I. Schoenholtz -- Digestible difference / Susan M. Thompson -- Feeding the festive city / Jan Rath.

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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. The tone is most often emotional - whichever way the focus goes. The overall impact is to confuse: is migration good or bad? In this book Guild and van Selm seek to investigate these value assessments regarding migrants in Europe, the USA, Canada and Australia. While looking at issues such as sec.

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