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Beyond Economic Migration: Social, Historical, and Political Factors in Us Immigration

Beyond Economic Migration: Social, Historical, and Political Factors in Us Immigration

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General Political ScienceGeneral SociologyImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 1479818542
ISBN13: 9781479818549
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: Jan 17 2023
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Offers a critique of the economic model of immigration

Most understandings of migration to the US focus on two primary factors. Either there was trouble in the home country, such as political unrest or famine, that pushed people out, or there was a general yearning for a better life or more opportunity, often conceptualized as the American Dream.

Although many contemporary migrants in the United States have been driven by economic interests, the processes of immigration and integration are shaped also by the intersection of a range of noneconomic factors in both sending and receiving countries. The contributors to Beyond Economic Migration offer a nuanced look at a range of issues affecting motives to migrate and outcomes of integration, including US immigration policy and the visa system, labor market incorporation, employment precarity, identity and belonging, and transnationalism relating to female migrants, student migrants, and temporary foreign workers.

Beyond Economic Migration argues that, for the dream of fair and equitable migration to be realized, analyses of cross-border movements, resettlement, and integration must pay attention to how migrants' individual attributes interact with institutional mechanisms and social processes.

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