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Previous scholarship has looked at Western states’ immigration policies from the vantage point of advancing liberalism. This perspective needs to be updated by including two additional factors: neoliberalism and a new nationalism that arises in its context, typically in the form of populist right parties. I argue that contemporary immigration policy is bifurcated into two policies with opposite logics: one of proactively courting the top, and another of reactively fending off the bottom. This dual structure is best explained in neoliberal terms, with neonationalism merely reinforcing but not generating it.

This article examines the link between literature and commitment in the work of several contemporary French-speaking Belgian writers who have emerged from migratory movements. We will be looking into their trajectories as much as into their works, each of which, in a unique style, tackles (op)pressing societal issues through writing. Whether it is the fight against violence against women, the social cohesion that results from immigration policies (or lack thereof), precariousness or the quest for happiness, each of our authors in his or her own way enters a space that combines creativity, inclusiveness, and catharsis. We will also see how belonging to a minority makes them true cultural agents and inspirational models for future generations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The international migration is a core issue in the functioning of the Moroccan society and it becomes more and more the result of the departure of Moroccans abroad for the studies. Almost 14 % of Moroccan students are studying abroad.This paper is looking into the administrative data on the international student migration. Do these data allow studying the mobility of Moroccan students ? Firstly, we count the various sources of existing data, check out their availability, and explore their limits. Secondly, we show that it is possible and a good sense to analyze these data. While this study is linked with the contexts of the country of origin and the host country, it allows describing and having a good grasp of the student mobility. The database SISE created recently by the French ministry of education entitles researches to study the student trajectories. These data allow observing the capacity of adaptation of Moroccan students to the different changes of policies in the host countries on the one hand. On the second hand, this study explores the ability of the Moroccans to adapt to changes in the Morocco and the host countries labour market and their family patterns

The paper provides a critical appraisal of changes that have marked the political discourses on immigration from within and outside the Southern Africa region in the aftermath of the 1994 elections in the Republic of South Africa. It also provides insights into the connections of these changing discourses with the rise of social intolerance of immigration from other African countries. The immigration policy in the apartheid period was highly controlled and somewhat in favour of immigration of foreign labour within the Southern Africa region. In the post-apartheid period, the imperative of social reconstruction and with it that of universalism in service delivery have induced a shift in the discourse on immigration, making it markedly exclusionary and selective, since the country has had concurrently to deal with increased immigration flows (refugees, irregular and regular) and shortage of skills. This has had some social repercussions reflected in the negative public perception of immigration, especially that of African origin. The prevailing climate of xenophobia and other forms of social harassment towards African foreigners, accompanying the immigration discourses, finds its roots in the social representations brought, locally, about by the new dispensation of the post-apartheid regime and, internationally, by the redefinition of the strategic positioning of South Africa in the context of globalization.

Given the immigration policy adopted a few years ago in Québec and the particularities of this province, can we consider that governmental action is moving towards the implementation of citizen public relations ? This article seeks to answer that question by painting a brief historical picture of the question and by examining the diverse facets of immigrant reception as well as actions destined to mobilize diverse parties of the host society. While it is an avant-garde policy, this relatively young project is still to be consolidated as it concerns diverse actors in a complex context of intercultural communication marked by different situations and the necessity for continuous action.

Spain is a country that, within a few years, has experienced a drastic change in its migratory behaviour. It has passed from being an emigration country to one of immigration. But, in turn, the numbers of foreign residents in Spain do not fit a single immigration model. Several such models apply, relating to migrant origins and objectives. All this happens within the framework of a European panorama involving a substantial arrival of immigrants in countries which are economically mature but also dynamic in economic growth terms. These considerable immigration flows, of continuous growth, are occurring in a world context where the speed and ease of movement is increasing. For the future, it seems opportune to design sensible and reasonable immigration policies with a view to their likely relevance over the medium term.

The USA has been and has remained the world's most important immigration country. The last quarter of the 20th century has been marked by a new mass immigration wave that in absolute size of the immigration flow can be compared to the highest flows in the previous century. This recent migration, however, differs from traditional immigration to America in that it includes a greater ethnic, religious and cultural diversity. The vast majority of today's immigrants, both legal and clandestine, come from Latin American countries, whereas immigration from Europe is now negligible. The massiveness and non-European composition of the immigrants has provoked sharp criticism of the government's immigration policy by opponents of (current) immigration. Nevertheless the political block that supports immigration is strong, so that heated debates for and against immigration continue and a consensus on the question of further immigration strategy can be expected only within the upcoming century. Many feel that the immigration question, along with multiculturalism, is a key theme in America after the end of the "Cold War". The present immigration debates include key questions relating to American social and economic development, as well as the question of cultural and national identity. In order to give readers, less acquainted with current debates on modern immigration in America, the possibility to better follow and understand their present aspects, the author first systematically reviews the basic characteristics of modern immigration flows to America. The following chapters of the article give a critical discussion on the economic, demographic, ecological and cultural questions of immigration. Finally, the author treats the problems of immigration policy, which, in a way, rounds out the discussion and brings him to certain conclusions.

The Asian immigration debate has become one of the most contentious topics of debate in Australia. Little about the debate is new and most of the arguments, both in favour and against, begin with demographic considerations, then move on to the economic consequences of immigration and the social and cultural ramifications. Delving deeper into the debate, one will realize that there is an underlying assumption of the economic theory of laissez-faire, which is the driving force of the debate. The new realities of global electronic commerce with laissez-faire economic theory have been transposed onto Australia's immigration policy. The government welcomes the "elite" of the knowledge workers because they are the real generators of wealth. However, the government is also aware that maximizing its benefit out of these immigrants, it must minimize the costs associated with them, such as maintenance cost of their sponsored parents. The analysis, while dispelling the myth of increasing immigration costs, confirmed the urgent need to shift the focus of societal pluralism from an economic one that is rooted in competition and self-interest individualism, to pluralism that is rooted in social organization. This is where society is seen as cooperative units rather than of competing units, that is Asians and non-Asians contributing to Australia as a cooperative group of people. The government promotion of division in society with its archaic politics to instill the 'metic' status for new immigrants may prove detrimental to its effort to attract elite wealth generator migrants.

This paper examines how immigration policies on migrant care workers are both pragmatic ‘policy solutions’ and also reflect and construct social ideas and relations about gender, labour and nation, with a particular focus on the UK. It first considers the regimes that construct the supply and demand for low waged workers in social care to analyse how the creation of a migrant workforce results from the intersection of a wide range of policies and ‘systems effects’. The role of migrant labour in the care sector is however, not reflected in immigration policy, and the paper examines the crucial symbolic dimension which can be overlooked in policy literature. To look at this more closely it considers the two immigration categories that have been available for care work in private homes, au pairs and domestic worker visas, which reflect and construct assumptions about the doing of domestic work in the UK, about the relation between family and work, and ideas of equality, slavery and freedom.

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A conference paper analyzing multiculturalism from a hospitality ethics standpoint is presented. It discusses the relationship between immigration policy and multiculturalism policy and multiculturalism according the British Pakistani sociologist Tariq Modood. Topics include economic immigration, the reemergence of republicanism in political philosophy since the 1980s, and the debate over the right to wear a kirpan, a ceremonial sword carried by baptized Sikhs, in public schools in Québec from 2002 to 2006.

The article discusses the efforts of political refugees from Arab countries to immigrate to Europe as of 2012, with a focus on European policies governing immigration law after the Arab Spring Uprisings which began in 2011. Topics include the political rights and social status of immigrants in Europe; the economic aspects of immigration; and the issue of illegal immigration.

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La Belgique est signataire de la Convention du 28 juillet 1951 relative au statut de réfugiés. Ce texte oblige le pays à accueillir toute personne qui "…craignant avec raison d'être persécutée du fait de sa race, de sa religion, de sa nationalité, de son appartenance à un certain groupe social ou de ses opinions politiques, se trouve hors du pays dont elle a la nationalité et qui ne peut, ou du fait de cette crainte ne veut, se réclamer de la protection de ce pays; ou qui, si elle n'a pas de nationalité et se trouve hors du pays dans lequel elle avait sa résidence habituelle à la suite de tels événements, ne peut ou, en raison de ladite crainte, ne veut y retourner" (Art. 1er A, 2°). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The growing number of new immigrants settling in suburban communities has caused researchers and policy-makers to shift their focus from large cities to the communities that surround them, thereby side-swiping several stereotypes commonly associated with 'white' and 'wealthy' suburban cities in North America. My article responds to this recent interest by proposing an analysis of the public policies that apply to immigrants and ethno-cultural minorities in Laval, north of Montreal. The article establishes that Laval has had a policy in place since the early 1990s, with a specific institutional configuration that changes over time. I discerned two institutional configurations shaping two distinct sequences for this policy. The first sequence (1990-2003) involved an institutional configuration that shut down the channels for the representation of the interests of immigrants and ethno-cultural minorities on the municipal level, and the second sequence (2003-2009) was marked by the regionalization of the shutdown of the mediation channels for the representation of these interests. In each sequence, the shutdown of the mediation channels is illustrated in three areas of this public policy: intergovernmental agreements, the recognition of associations, and affirmative action in the municipal public service. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article discusses the influence of two historic events on the Greek national identity: Greece's membership in the European Union in 1981 and the end of the Iron Curtain with the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989. The author argues that it it yet too early to fully comprehend the extent of these events for Greece and how it defines itself nationally in relation to Europe and to the Balkans. The author viewpoint is mainly based on an analysis of the way immigrants, especially from the Balkans, are being treated as their growing numbers are perceived by some Greeks as a threat to the purity of the Greek national identity. Recent changes to the naturalization laws in Greece, Greece's foreign policy in the Balkans, and the strengthening of the Greek Diaspora are also discussed.

The article discusses the integration of immigrants in Québec. The author refers to the 2001 Québec Kirpan court case concerning a student wearing a ceremonial dagger to school. The disconnect between Canadian multiculturalism and the québécois model is examined. Also discussed is the "crise des accommodement raisonnable" (reasonable accommodation crisis) that took place in Québec between 2006 and 2008. A definition concerning the Canadian model based on liberal pluralism is provided. Research by québécois researchers Louis-Georges Harvey and Stéphane Kelly concerning Québec's Republican tradition is presented. Further topics include cultural unity, the legitimacy of integration, and Québec's main problems concerning integration.

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The article presents abstracts on world politics topics including the French policy towards gypsy migrations, the monitoring of capital flow from the perspective of fundamental freedoms, and the impact of the processing of personal data on refugees and asylum seekers.

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The article focuses on the notion of a common public culture in the province of Quebec. According to the author, no political consensus on this concept has been observed and the definition of a common public culture is to be called into question. The author bases the article on the criticism of the book "Du tricoté serré au métissé serré? La culture publique commune au Québec en débats," by Stephan Gervais. The topic of the government policy on immigration is discussed, as well as the notion of cultural transmission.

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During the 1990s, the Czech Republic became a land of immigration and transit. Regulating the flow of immigrants and integrating them have become major issues. The principal characteristics of immigration to the Czech Republic are described. Given current population trends - a negative balance and the increasingly top-heavy age pyramid - immigration will not offset losses. Immigrants, legal as well as illegal, play an important role in the Czech labor market. The results of a survey of immigrants sheds light on the conditions and processes underlying this economic immigration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstracts are presented, including one about the asymmetry created by cultural and political boundaries, one about emigration control in the U.S. and in Europe, and one about peace boundaries in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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The overall objective of this study is to understand the experiences of asylum seekers arriving illegally, including with the help of smugglers, in Canada. The phenomenon of illegal immigration in Canada is analyzed using the specific experiences of migrants and key informants. This methodology gives voice to migrants and their experiences. Results indicate that illegal immigration and reliance on human traffickers are the perverse effect of tighter borders and the strengthening of immigration controls, becoming the only solution for asylum seekers. This research challenges the widespread idea that smugglers routinely exploit and victimize migrants, arguing that, to the contrary, smugglers are often the ones who enable migrants to reach Canada and seek refugee status. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article is a comparative study of two Chinese communities in two countries that differ in their history and their political direction when it comes to immigration: Canada and France. Although it neither concludes their independence nor the disappearance of the role of national states, the article points out many similarities in the structure, organization and internal economy relying on cross-border ethnic networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the relationship between unemployment and a proposal for selective immigration in European Union (EU) member countries. The author looks at the controversy in the European Commission and among European Union member states surrounding labor shortages in Europe. It is suggested that the member countries are inconsistent in their policy toward immigrants. The EU proposal for a blue card is mentioned as a way to allow freer movement of immigrants among member states. Another factor that the author considers is the overqualification of many of the children of immigrant workers. It is noted that the increase in degree conferral has caused economists to look at the relationship this has to unemployment. Several of the findings of these inquiries are presented.

Abstract: In a political context pointing to the restriction of immigration flows, asylum seekers find excessively difficult to overcome obstacles related to substantiating the reasons they escaped from their country of origin, and facing the strong suspicion reflected by the French Administration. Patients under medical and psychological treatment appeal to us consequently to generally grave psychic traumas. Their follow up necessitate a professional and human engagement that will permit a trusting therapeutic relationship. It is strictly within this context that the specialist could issue a medical certificate, often required by a third party to complete the instruction for an asylum request. Indeed, people having suffered grave psychic traumas are in difficulty to establish a coherent story, itself a condition precedent to an asylum request. The aim of the medical certificate is to describe, establish links, but also to convince. Hence, its efficiency depends a lot on its author. Medical certificates are all the more requested for the provision of medical care, posterior to all other access to assistance having been exhausted. All the more so, these requests embarrass doctors, especially because they give access to limited rights. These requests for medical care must be restructured, currently reflecting a very limited interpretation of the Geneva Convention. In all respects, medical certificates are considered of modest importance and reflect a symptom of an increasingly unfair policy towards asylum seekers. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

This case study explores ethical issues with Canada’s immigration policy and the requirement of mandatory HIV testing of prospective immigrants. Attention is directed to the official immigration medical examination (IME) because it is a key site within the immigration system. The following four issues are raised: the differences in official and experiential knowledge claims about what activities occur (or not) in the IME when an applicant is diagnosed with HIV; the exceptional treatment of HIV within the Canadian immigration program; the discursive organization of the HIV testing policy; and, the inadequacies with how specific practices are enacted in the processing of immigration applications made by people living with HIV.