Immigration policy and the racialization of migrant labour: The construction of national identities in the USA and Britain

1996 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bob Carter ◽  
Marci Green ◽  
Rick Halpern
Keyword(s):  
Immigration Policy ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Migrant Labour ◽  
The Usa

scholarly journals Correcting Citizens’ Misperceptions about non-Western Immigrants: Corrective Information, Interpretations, and Policy Opinions

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederik Juhl Jørgensen ◽  
Mathias Osmundsen
Keyword(s):  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Correct Information ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Information Change ◽  
Corrective Information

Abstract Can corrective information change citizens’ misperceptions about immigrants and subsequently lead to favorable immigration opinions? While prior studies from the USA document how corrections about the size of minority populations fail to change citizens’ immigration-related opinions, they do not examine how other facts that speak to immigrants’ cultural or economic dependency rates can influence immigration policy opinions. To extend earlier work, we conducted a large-scale survey experiment fielded to a nationally representative sample of Danes. We randomly expose participants to information about non-Western immigrants’ (1) welfare dependency rate, (2) crime rate, and (3) proportion of the total population. We find that participants update their factual beliefs in light of correct information, but reinterpret the information in a highly selective fashion, ultimately failing to change their policy preferences.

Immigration Policy in the USA

2013 ◽  
pp. 375-405
Author(s):  
Örn B. Bodvarsson ◽  
Hendrik Van den Berg
Keyword(s):  
Immigration Policy ◽  
The Usa

Liberal Nationalism and Its Critics

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Full Inclusion ◽  
Liberal Nationalism ◽  
Psychological Mechanisms ◽  
Liberal Societies ◽  
The Usa ◽  
National Attachment ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Psychological Experiments

The thesis of liberal nationalism is that national identities can serve as a source of unity in culturally diverse liberal societies, thereby lending support to democracy and social justice. The chapters in this book examine that thesis from both normative and empirical perspectives, in the latter case using survey data or psychological experiments from the USA, Canada, the Netherlands, Denmark, France, and the UK. They explore how people understand what it means to belong to their nation, and show that different aspects of national attachment—national identity, national pride, and national chauvinism—have contrasting effects on support for redistribution and on attitudes towards immigrants. The psychological mechanisms that may explain why people’s identity matters for their willingness to extend support to others are examined in depth. Equally important is how the potential recipients of such support are perceived. ‘Ethnic’ and ‘civic’ conceptions of national identity are often contrasted, but the empirical basis for such a distinction is shown to be weak. In their place, a cultural conception of national identity is explored, and defended against the charge that it is ‘essentialist’ and therefore exclusive of minorities. Particular attention is given to the role that religion can legitimately play within such identities. Finally the book examines the challenges involved in integrating immigrants, dual nationals, and other minorities into the national community. It shows that although these groups mostly share the liberal values of the majority, their full inclusion depends on whether they are seen as committed and trustworthy members of the national ‘we’.

Immigration Control as a (False) Security Measure

2011 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 739-761 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Hammond
Keyword(s):  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Moral Panic ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Border Control ◽  
Family Migration ◽  
Latin Americans ◽  
Immigration Control ◽  
Arab Immigrants ◽  
Security Measure ◽  
The Usa

US immigration policy as defined during the administration of George W. Bush was the result of a moral panic against two categories of immigrants: Latin Americans who cross the Mexican border clandestinely in search of work and Muslims and Arabs whom the administration defines as potential terrorists. The policy harms both groups and threatens national security. Antiterrorist measures are counterproductive because they create sympathy to terrorism in law-abiding Muslim and Arab immigrants; border control measures are counterproductive because, far from deterring illegal immigration, they encourage longer stays, family migration, and dispersion throughout the USA, and endanger the lives of those entering the country through inaccessible and dangerous border areas.

Can skilled immigration raise innovation? Evidence from Canadian Cities

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 879-901 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Blit ◽  
Mikal Skuterud ◽  
Jue Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Engineering Technology ◽  
Skilled Immigrants ◽  
The Us ◽  
Skilled Immigration ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Skilled Immigrant ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Abstract We examine the effect of changes in skilled-immigrant population shares in 98 Canadian cities on per capita patents. The Canadian case is of interest because its ‘points system’ is viewed as a model of skilled immigration policy. Our estimates suggest that the impact of increasing the university-educated immigrant share on patenting rates is modest at best and unambiguously smaller than the impact of skilled immigrants in the USA. We find larger effects of Canadian science, engineering, technology or mathematics (STEM)-educated immigrants employed in STEM jobs, but this impact is limited because only one-third of Canadian STEM-educated immigrants are employed in STEM jobs, compared with two-fifths of native-born Canadians and one-half of US immigrants. Our findings suggest that for most countries, skilled immigration is unlikely to be a panacea for sluggish innovation and that the US experience may be exceptional.

Personal and Cultural Trauma and the Ambivalent National Identities of Undocumented Young Adults in the USA

2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 600-619 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Aranda ◽  
Elizabeth Vaquera ◽  
Isabel Sousa-Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Cultural Trauma ◽  
The Usa

scholarly journals National Question in the U.S. and Canada’s Domestic Politics: Conclusions from the Comparative Analysis

2019 ◽  
pp. 122-127
Author(s):  
Oleh Kozachuk
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
National Question ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Cross National

The conclusions of the research «National Question in the U.S. and Canada’s Domestic Politics: Comparative Analysis» are proposed for consideration here. For the first time in Ukrainian political science, a cross-national comparison of the USA and Canada in the context of the analysis of the national question was carried out. Namely, its essence was clarified, the peculiarities of multicultural practices in the USA and Canada (cultural pluralism and multiculturalism) were analyzed, and an analysis of ethno-racial discrimination and ethnic mobilization was conducted. The research methodologically conceptualized and developed a comparative political study of interethnic interactions with the use of a research strategy for comparing most similar systems (for example, the USA and Canada). The case study method has been substantiated and applied, involving the method of structural and focused comparison as a tool of cross-national research (for example, the USA and Canada), and also proved that the method can be effective in comparative political science. In the research, the indexation of immigration policy was conceptualized, and a scientific apparatus (a logical sequence of conceptualization, measurement and aggregation) for further cross-national studies in which the object is the national question in general and the migration policy in particular was developed. The theoretical results of the research can be used for the further design of models of binary implicit comparison of similar states. The case study method has not yet been properly applied in Ukrainian political science; therefore, the method proposed by the author for a structured and focused comparison of cases can be useful for both scholars and practitioners when comparing phenomena and processes. The author proposed the concept and design of a study of the already forgotten issues of the national question, which has been proven not to be outdated even in such advanced polyethnic states as the USA and Canada. The scientific results obtained by the author can be used by subjects of internal policy, first of all  in the practice of public authorities. The proposed method of indexing immigration policy can serve scholars, legislators, government officials, and employees of the executive authorities to carry out cross-national and/or cross-temporal comparisons. Keywords: national question, new institutionalism, case study, structural and focused comparison, immigration, ethno-racial discrimination.

scholarly journals Immigration policy as family language policy: Mexican immigrant children and families in search of biliteracy

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 757-770 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Gallo ◽  
Nancy H Hornberger
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Mexican Immigrant ◽  
Language And Literacy ◽  
Family Language Policy ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Family Language

Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: In this article we draw upon the ethnography of language planning and policy (LPP) to examine the complexities of how young Latino children with a recently deported parent engage with family language policies within their routine interactions. We explore the following questions. (1) How do US elementary school-aged children engage with, resist, and refashion family language and literacy policies alongside their parents in the face of parental deportations to Mexico? (2) How do children’s and parents’ experiences with monoglossic ideologies of schooling in the USA and Mexico shape family LPP and migratory decisions? Design/methodology/approach: The data come from a three-year ethnography on Mexican immigrant fathers and their elementary school-aged children conducted within the context of heightened deportations. Data and analysis: We focus on the case of eight-year-old Princess following her father’s deportation to examine how she articulated awareness of their counterpoint lives as she engaged in LPP alongside her mother. Findings/conclusions: Our findings reveal the unintended language education consequences of immigration policy as well as the complex ways that children discursively contribute to family LPP and migration decisions. Originality: This article uniquely highlights the complex interplay between immigration policy and LPP in the daily lives of mixed status Mexican immigrant families and the active roles that children play in shaping family language policy and migratory decisions. Significance/implications: We illustrate how children orient to monoglossic schooling ideologies as they prepare for and contest the possibilities of transnational schooling in Mexico and how limited opportunities to develop dynamic bilingualism or biliteracy in US schools shape families’ decisions. We argue that educational policy and classroom practices that open up ideological and implementational spaces to dynamically develop both languages are needed to better prepare children—especially those from undocumented families within a context of unprecedented deportations—for educational success on both sides of the border.

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