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Title Poverty, international migration, and asylum / edited by George J. Borjas and Jeff Crisp
Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

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Description xix, 445 pages ; 23 cm
Series Studies in development economics and policy
Studies in development economics and policy.
Contents Machine derived contents note: Foreword; S-A.Siimes Poverty, International Migration and Asylum: Introduction; G.J.Borjas & J.Crisp PART 1: GLOBAL ASPECTS OF IMMIGRATION AND ASYLUM What Fundamentals Drive World Migration? T.J.Hatton & J.G.Williamson Trends in Asylum Migration to Industrialized Countries: 1990-2001; S.Castles & S.Loughna Asylum Policy in the West: Past Trends, Future Possibilities; M.J.Gibney & R.Hansen PART 2: CONSEQUENCES OF IMMIGRATION AND ASYLUM The Impact of Asylum on Receiving Countries; S.Martin, A.Schoenholtz & D.Fisher Asylum Migration: Implications for Countries of Origin; K.Koser & N.Van Hear Illegal Immigration, Human Trafficking, and Organized Crime; R.Va;yrynen Migration, Remittances and Growth; R.Faini If People were Money: Estimating the Gains and Scope of Free Migration; J.Moses & B.Letnes Efficiency Gains from the Elimination of Global Restrictions on Labour Mobility: An Analysis Using a Multiregional CGE Model; A.M.Iregui PART 3: CASE STUDIES OF IMMIGRATION AND ASYLUM The Economic Integration of Immigrants in the United States: Lessons for Policy; G.J.Borjas Development Cycles, Political Regimes and International Migration: Argentina in the Twentieth Century; A.Solimano Economic Integration and Migration: The Mexico - United States Case; P.Martin The Nature and Pattern of Irregular Migration in the Caribbean; E.Thomas-Hope A Tale of Two Countries: Poverty and Income Distribution Among Immigrants in Denmark and Sweden since 1984; K.Blume, B.Gustafsson, P.J.Pedersen & M.Verner Iraqi Asylum Migrants in Jordan: Conditions, Religious Networks and the Smuggling Process; G.Chatelard Asylum Seekers as Pariahs in the Australian State; C.Tazreiter Controlling Asylum Migration to the Enlarged EU: The Impact of EU Accession on Asylum and Immigration Policies in Central and Eastern Europe; C.Phuong
Summary "This book examines the economic consequences of immigration and asylum migration. It focuses on the economic consequences of legal and illegal immigration as well as placing the study of immigration in a global context."--BOOK JACKET
Analysis Poverty
International migration
Asylum
Poverty
International migration
Asylum
Notes "In association with the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research."
Includes many of the studies presented at a UNU-WIDER sponsored conference held in Helsinki in September 2002
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Poverty.
Noncitizens -- Economic conditions -- Congresses.
Foreign workers -- Economic aspects -- Congresses.
Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects -- Congresses.
Asylum, Right of -- Economic aspects -- Congresses.
Noncitizens -- Economic aspects -- Congresses.
Immigrants -- Economic conditions -- Congresses.
Illegal immigration -- Economic conditions -- Congresses.
Illegal immigration -- Economic aspects -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Borjas, George J.
Crisp, Jeff.
World Institute for Development Economics Research.
LC no. 2004061051
ISBN 1403943656