Politics of Immigration: Current Issues and Future Directions

Contents: A Brief History of US Immigration Policy; Immigration -- Recent Estimates of the US Illegal Alien Population; Immigration -- The Effects of Native-Born Workers; Farm Policy Shortages and Immigration Policy; The Foreign-Born Population -- A Profile; Immigration -- Adjustment to Permanent Residence Status Under Section 245 (1); Public Attitudes Since 1992 About Immigration -- A Selective Survey; Immigration -- The Affidavit of Support -- Questions, Answers and Issues; Refugees Policy in a Changing World; Housing and Asian Immigrants in Australia; The Australian Immigration Programme -- Politics, Policy Design and the Case for Reform; Trouble in the Promised Land -- Poverty Among Immigrants in Canada; Mass Immigration and Israeli Society; The Effects of Immigration on the German Public Purse.