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Written by the recognised world authority on the subject, this title remains the definitive work on British nationality law. Includes the following updates: - Changes to primary legislation as regards deprivation of citizenship and registration as a British citizen; - Changes to secondary legislation including Nationality Instructions being replaced by the Nationality Guidance, and the Immigration Rules which now contain provisions for a Statelessness Determination Procedure; - Updated case la...

This book throws new light on the drivers of migration and explores the different ways in which aspiration and desire are involved in the generation, experiences, and outcomes of migration. The authors propose novel approaches to advancing collective understanding of migration, including reassessments of classical push and pull theory; explorations of the lexicon of aspiration, desire and voluntariness in migration; and reflections on the relationships between migration and modernity, youth an...

European labour markets and social systems are increasingly threatended by the globalizaion of world markets. The major concern is migration: actual labour mobility from outside the European Union; virtual immigration (via the internet, imporeted goods or capital out-migration); and refugee migrations. With high unemployment rates, the efficiency, equity and political economy implications are serious. This report discusses the sources of these problems in a European context.

Since 1959, the government of the Caribbean island of Cuba, 90 miles away from the United States of America, has defied its powerful neighbor. The story of the improbable survival of the Cuban Revolutionary Government in its struggle against the most powerful country in the world has kept international attention on Cuba for more than half a century; but it has also overshadowed the brilliance of the hybrid culture developed in the island since the Spanish conquerors brought Western civilization...

How are refugee crises solved? This has become an urgent question as global displacement rates continue to climb, and refugee situations now persist for years if not decades. The resolution of displacement and the conflicts that force refugees from their homes is often explained as a top-down process led and controlled by governments and international organizations. This book takes a different approach. Through contributions from scholars working in politics, anthropology, law, sociology and phi...

In a village square in Corsica lies the body of ardent nationalist, Stephane Campana, shot down at close range. And over his body weeps Virginie, the young woman who has venerated Stephane all her life - a veneration that has led her to abandon herself to him and his twisted desires completely.Meanwhile, brother and sister Khaled and Hayet, who once gazed out to sea from the shoreline path known as "Balco Atlantico" and dreamed of a better future, are now stranded in Corsica. As Ferrari traces t...

In today's world of constant identification checks, it's difficult to recall that there was ever a time when "proof of identity" was not a part of everyday life. And as anyone knows who has ever lost a passport, or let one expire on the eve of international travel, the passport has become an indispensable document. But how and why did this form of identification take on such a crucial role? In the first history of the passport in the United States, Craig Robertson offers an illuminating accoun...

Los problemas relativosa la inmigración son frecuentes y bien conocidos dentro de las comunidades latinas. Y la falta de información apropiada es enorme. ¿Cómo puede legalizar su estadía en los Estados Unidos? ¿Cómo puede evitar ser deportado? ¿Cómo evitar ser encarcelado? Este libro pequeño ofrece información, consejos, testimonios y recursos de donde conseguir representación legal. También informa sobre sus derechos y responsabilidades.

Exposes the false narratives at the heart of Americans' fear of Latino/a immigration The election of Barack Obama prompted people around the world to herald the dawning of a new, postracial era in America. Yet a scant one month after Obama’s election, Jose Oswaldo Sucuzhanay, a 31-year old Ecuadorian immigrant, was ambushed by a group of white men as he walked arm and arm with his brother. Yelling anti-Latino slurs, the men beat Sucuzhanay into a coma. He died 5 days later. The incident is one...

The problem of social control has constituted the acid test for the entire issue of immigration and integration. But whilst recent studies show that the crime rate for non-nationals is three, four or more, times higher than that of the country's 'own' citizens, academic interest in these statistics has been inhibited by the political difficulties they raise. Immigration, Social Integration and Crime addresses this issue directly. Providing a thorough analysis of immigration and crime rates in al...

Michael Peter Smith and Matt Bakker spent five years carrying out ethnographic field research in multiple communities in the Mexican states of Zacatecas and Guanajuato and various cities in California, particularly metropolitan Los Angeles. Combining the information they gathered there with political-economic and institutional analysis, the five extended case studies in Citizenship across Borders offer a new way of looking at the emergent dynamics of transnational community development and elect...