Why do some countries welcome new arrivals from abroad while other nations are less hospitable? Why do immigration policies change over time? Fences and Neighbors considers several of the world's wealthiest democracies, nations that remain magnets for economic migrants as well as for refugees. Focusing on the tendency of immigrants to concentrate in specific locations in their new homelands, this book is the first to analyze the implications of this political geography for democracies. Politics of immigration control starts at the local level, Jeannette Money asserts. Drawing on detailed evidence from Britain, France, and Australia, and more briefly from the United States, she demonstrates that local support for and opposition to immigration is contingent upon economic conditions, as well as the numbers of foreigners entering the country and their access to the resources of the welfare state. Whether these local pressures are translated into policies of openness or closure at the national level depends on whether the local constituencies are critical to maintaining or gaining a national electoral majority.
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- The New Geography of European Migrations by Russell King on 4 pages
- Mass Migration in Europe: The Legacy and the Future by Russell King on 4 pages
- Controlling Immigration: A Global Perspective by Wayne Cornelius in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Labour Party: A Centenary History by Brian Brivati on page 74, and page 98
- Urbanization in Australia: The Post-War Experience by I. H. Burnley in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Negotiating Citizenship: Migrant Women in Canada and the Global System by Abigail Bakan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Immigration and the Transformation of Europe by Craig A. Parsons on page 355, and page 392
- West European Immigration and Immigrant Policy in the New Century by Anthony Messina in Back Matter
- State/Space: A Reader by Neil Brenner on page 183
- Operation Gatekeeper: The Rise of the 'Illegal Alien' and the Remaking of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary by Joseph Nevins in Back Matter
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