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Title Adjusting to a world in motion : trends in global migration and migration policy / edited by Douglas J. Besharov and Mark H. Lopez
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
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Series International policy exchange series
International policy exchange series.
Contents Introduction: adjusting to a world in motion / Douglas J. Besharov and Mark H. Lopez -- Global desires to migrate / Neli Esipova, Rajesh Srinivasan, and Julie Ray -- Patterns of global migration / Ellen L. Berg and Douglas J. Besharov -- Immigrants in the United States: many, diverse, and growing / Eileen Patten -- Declining Mexican migration to the United Sates / Andrew Selee -- Educating the children of immigrants in the United Sates / Dylan Conger and Rebecca Hinze-Pifer -- Searcing for new policy frameworks in the wake of the great recession / Roberto Suro -- The evolution of EU migration policies: toward a balanced, comprehensive, and common approach? / Anja Wiesbrock -- EU migration policies and external relations / Katharina Eisele
Citizenship policies in the European Union / Maarten Peter Vink and Gerard-Rene de Groot -- Highly skilled migration to the European Union and the United Sates / Metka Hercog and Anja Wiesbrock -- Educational performance of the children of immigrants in sixteen OECD countires / Jaap Dronkers and Manon de Heus -- Middle east country migration policies / Binod Khadria -- Population imbalance and immigration as a public policy problem in the United Arab Emirates / Ahmed Mustafa Elhussein Mansour -- Indian migration and "temporary" labor programs in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands / Mary E. Breeding -- Diaspora engagement policies and the power of the strong state: India and Ethiopia / Katie Kuschminder and Metka Hercog -- Diaspora engagement policies after conflict: Burndi and Rwanda / Sonja Fransena dn Melissa Siegel -- Diaspora engagement policies of countries with similar emigration histories: Morocco and Turkey / Ozge Bilgili and Silja Weyel
Summary Today, 215 million people live outside their home countries and another 700 million say they would migrate to another country if they could. This volume examines the ways both sending and receiving nations are modifying their migration policies to control entry, to encourage assimilation, and to build links between diasporas and their home countries
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- Cross-cultural studies
Immigrants -- Government policy -- Cross-cultural studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- General.
Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
Immigrants -- Government policy
Genre/Form Electronic books
Cross-cultural studies
Form Electronic book
Author Besharov, Douglas J., editor.
López, Mark Hugo, 1967- editor.
ISBN 9780190211400
0190211407
9780190270100
0190270101