International migration and security : opportunities and challenges /
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 interest...
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, England :
Routledge,
2005
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| Series: | Transnationalism.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 280 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0203236580 9780203236581 9780415326544 0415326540 1134339542 9781134339549 0203390342 9780203390344 1280147113 9781280147111 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
