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Vol. 3, No. 2: Spot The Alien, Vincent Williams, Jonathan Crush
Vol. 3, No. 2: Spot The Alien, Vincent Williams, Jonathan Crush
Southern African Migration Programme
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Vol. 3, No. 1: Women Migrants Play Positive Role, Jonathan Crush, Vincent Williams
Vol. 3, No. 1: Women Migrants Play Positive Role, Jonathan Crush, Vincent Williams
Southern African Migration Programme
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The Politics Of Immigration Control In Britain And Germany: Subnational Politicians And Social Movements, Roger Karapin
The Politics Of Immigration Control In Britain And Germany: Subnational Politicians And Social Movements, Roger Karapin
Publications and Research
Political backlash against immigrant minorities and restrictive immigration policies have increased in western Europe. Most explanations of the adoption of restrictions on immigration have focused on ethnic competition for material resources and on national political factors. An alternative theory of political mobilization and restrictive policy changes argues that pressure from subnational politicians and social movement organizations and signals from dramatic anti-immigrant events such as riots lead national elites to infer that public interest in anti-immigration policies is intense enough to justify a break with liberal policies. This theory is tested against four cases in Britain and Germany, where the hypothesized …
Urbanization And Related Socio-Economic Problems In Ibadan Area, Central Bank Of Nigeria
Urbanization And Related Socio-Economic Problems In Ibadan Area, Central Bank Of Nigeria
CBN Occasional Papers
This paper traces the evolution of urbanization in Ibadan area to political, institutional, economic and social factors. It broadly classifies the socio-economic problems of urbanization in Ibadan area into environmental crisis, crime/violence and urban poverty. Relying on secondary data and published materials, it identifies the major environmental problems as solid waste, flooding and water pollution, with the sanitation and eating habits of the people playing a great role in all of them. Dispossession-related crimes, particularly stealing and theft, are considered the most prominent of all the recorded crimes while violent crimes (mostly assaults) are found to be relatively few. For …
Choosing The Big City: Destination Choices Of Asian Immigrants To The West Coast Of The United States, Deenesh Sohoni
Choosing The Big City: Destination Choices Of Asian Immigrants To The West Coast Of The United States, Deenesh Sohoni
Arts & Sciences Articles
Since 1965, the United States has seen large scale immigration from Asian countries previously under-represented in immigration flows to the United States. Although we know that these groups are predominantly settling in large Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas (SMSAs) on the West Coast, we know less about the factors that draw immigrant groups to particular areas. This study looks at the growth of immigrant populations in West Coast SMSAs among four different Asian immigrant groups, comparing census data from 1980 and 1990. Two major perspectives, economic and network models, were examined to see how well they explained current migration patterns within …