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Refugee policy in the United States is a recent offspring of American immigration policy. Like its parent, refugee admissions are firmly entangled in the thicket of national politics and are Janus-faced. One face presses for admission, the other urges restriction. While the gates of admission are always guarded, time and circumstance determine which face prevails.

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Emotion, Colonialism and Immigration Policy

The Politics of Compassion ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781529200423.003.0003 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 37-50

Author(s):

Ala Sirriyeh

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Immigration Policy ◽

Asylum Seekers ◽

The United States ◽

Immigration Policies ◽

British Colonialism ◽

History Of ◽

The Creation ◽

The Uk ◽

Second Wave

This chapter examines the connection between colonialism and the emotion of compassion in contemporary immigration policy by reviewing key discourses present in the colonial and immigration histories of Australia, the UK and the United States. It first provides an overview of the history of British colonialism and how it gave rise to the ‘civilising process’, along with the rise of the discourse of ‘benevolent colonialism’ during the second wave of empire. It then considers the emergence and development of exclusionary immigration policies from the 1890s to 2000s, focusing on the links made between race and immigration in these periods, the creation of a distinction between ‘deserving’ refugees and ‘undeserving’ asylum seekers, and the criminalisation of migration. The chapter shows how anxieties and fears about immigration have shaped the emotional regimes of immigration policy and how such regimes have been constructed around attempts to identify and exclude undesirable immigrants.

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The making of the mosaic: a history of Canadian immigration policy

Choice Reviews Online ◽

10.5860/choice.37-1244 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 37 (02) ◽

pp. 37-1244-37-1244

Keyword(s):

Immigration Policy ◽

Canadian Immigration Policy ◽

Canadian Immigration ◽

History Of

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A Return to a National Origin Preference? Mexican Immigration and the Principles Guiding U.S. Immigration Policy

Perspectives on Politics ◽

10.1017/s1537592711002775 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 567-569

Author(s):

Louis DeSipio

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Immigration Policy ◽

Mexican Immigrants ◽

The United States ◽

National Origin ◽

Immigration Policies ◽

Mexican Immigration ◽

Mexican Immigrant ◽

Mexican Migrants ◽

History Of

The provocative question raised by Rogers Smith's “Living in a Promiseland? Mexican Immigration and American Obligations” is whether the tortured history of U.S.-Mexican relations and the racialized context of Mexican immigrant reception can best be ameliorated through targeted immigration policies that would create added opportunities for Mexican migrants relative to others. I argue that the current, more universally-principled system of U.S. immigration policy, supplemented by an inclusive legalization program, can better serve the needs of potential Mexican migrants and Mexican immigrants resident in the United States. Also, I am more skeptical than Smith is about the depths of Mexico's commitment to seeking binational strategies to address the needs of its émigrés abroad.

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