Understanding immigration and refugee policy : : Contradictions and continuities / / Rosemary Sales.

Immigration, particularly asylum, has become a major political issue in Britain and Europe and its impact on welfare, employment and 'social cohesion' highly contested. While asylum policy has become more punitive, dependence on immigrant labour has been increasingly acknowledged by govern...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
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Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2007]
©2007
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • Detailed contents
  • List of tables and boxes
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: immigration policy in the twenty-first century
  • Understanding migration
  • Contemporary migration flows: continuities and new directions
  • Explaining migration
  • Forced migration
  • Understanding migration and refugee policy
  • Contemporary immigration policy making
  • The development of British immigration policy
  • Britain’s managed migration policy
  • Living with immigration policy
  • The future of immigration policy: immigration controls, immigration and citizenship
  • Further information for researching migration policy
  • References
  • Index