Fragile Migration Rights

Author : Matthew Light
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317631217

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Fragile Migration Rights by Matthew Light Pdf

The Soviet Union comprehensively governed the mobility of its citizens by barring emigration and strictly regulating internal migration. In the aftermath of the Soviet collapse, the constitution and laws of the new Russian Federation appeared to herald a complete break with the repressiveness of the previous government. Russian law now proclaims the right of Russian citizens and residents to move around their country freely. This book examines how and why this post-Soviet legal promise of internal freedom of movement has been undermined in practice by both federal and regional policies. It thereby adds a new dimension to scholarly understanding of the nature of rights, citizenship, and law enforcement in contemporary Russia. Most contemporary works focus on the attempts of developed Northern countries to regulate migration from the global South to the global North: here Matthew Light examines the restriction of migration within Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, providing a comprehensive view into an area rarely explored within migration scholarship. Fragile Migration Rights develops a comprehensive theoretical framework to analyse this complex subject. It is essential reading for students and academics from a range of disciplines including criminology, human rights, migration studies, and political science.

Author : Zahra Meghani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317387640

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Women Migrant Workers by Zahra Meghani Pdf

This volume makes the case for the fair treatment of female migrant workers from the global South who are employed in wealthy liberal democracies as care workers, domestic workers, home health workers, and farm workers. An international panel of contributors provide analyses of the ethical, political, and legal harms suffered by female migrant workers, based on empirical data and case studies, along with original and sophisticated analyses of the complex of systemic, structural factors responsible for the harms experienced by women migrant workers. The book also proposes realistic and original solutions to the problem of the unjust treatment of women migrant workers, such as social security systems that are transnational and tailored to meet the particular needs of different groups of international migrant workers.

Author : Mary Dewhurst Lewis
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0804757224

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The Boundaries of the Republic by Mary Dewhurst Lewis Pdf

In this first comprehensive history of immigrant inequality in France, Mary D. Lewis chronicles the conflicts arising from mass immigration between the First and Second World Wars, the uneven rights arrangements that emerged during this time, and their legacy for contemporary France.

Author : Vladislava Stoyanova,Stijn Smet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316510711

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Migrants' Rights, Populism and Legal Resilience in Europe by Vladislava Stoyanova,Stijn Smet Pdf

Identifies paths for legal resilience against restrictions of migrants' rights introduced by the forces of authoritarian populism.

Author : Alexander Betts
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801468964

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Survival Migration by Alexander Betts Pdf

International treaties, conventions, and organizations to protect refugees were established in the aftermath of World War II to protect people escaping targeted persecution by their own governments. However, the nature of cross-border displacement has transformed dramatically since then. Such threats as environmental change, food insecurity, and generalized violence force massive numbers of people to flee states that are unable or unwilling to ensure their basic rights, as do conditions in failed and fragile states that make possible human rights deprivations. Because these reasons do not meet the legal understanding of persecution, the victims of these circumstances are not usually recognized as “refugees,” preventing current institutions from ensuring their protection. In this book, Alexander Betts develops the concept of “survival migration” to highlight the crisis in which these people find themselves. Examining flight from three of the most fragile states in Africa—Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Somalia—Betts explains variation in institutional responses across the neighboring host states. There is massive inconsistency. Some survival migrants are offered asylum as refugees; others are rounded up, detained, and deported, often in brutal conditions. The inadequacies of the current refugee regime are a disaster for human rights and gravely threaten international security. In Survival Migration, Betts outlines these failings, illustrates the enormous human suffering that results, and argues strongly for an expansion of protected categories.

Author : United Nations
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789290687894

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World Migration Report 2020 by United Nations Pdf

Since 2000, IOM has been producing world migration reports. The World Migration Report 2020, the tenth in the world migration report series, has been produced to contribute to increased understanding of migration throughout the world. This new edition presents key data and information on migration as well as thematic chapters on highly topical migration issues, and is structured to focus on two key contributions for readers: Part I: key information on migration and migrants (including migration-related statistics); and Part II: balanced, evidence-based analysis of complex and emerging migration issues.

Author : Agnieszka Kubal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108417891

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Immigration and Refugee Law in Russia by Agnieszka Kubal Pdf

How do immigration and refugee laws work 'in action' in Russia? This book offers a complex, empirical and nuanced understanding.

Author : Paul Collier
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780195398656

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Exodus by Paul Collier Pdf

It is one of the most pressing and controversial questions of our time -- vehemently debated, steeped in ideology, profoundly divisive. Who should be allowed to immigrate and who not? What are the arguments for and against limiting the numbers? We are supposedly a nation of immigrants, and yet our policies reflect deep anxieties and the quirks of short-term self-interest, with effective legislation snagging on thousand-mile-long security fences and the question of how long and arduous the path to citizenship should be. In Exodus, Paul Collier, the world-renowned economist and bestselling author of The Bottom Billion, clearly and concisely lays out the effects of encouraging or restricting migration. Drawing on original research and case studies, he explores this volatile issue from three perspectives: that of the migrants themselves, that of the people they leave behind, and that of the host societies where they relocate. Immigration is a simple economic equation, but its effects are complex. Exodus confirms how crucial it will be that public policy face and address all of its ramifications. Sharply written and brilliantly clarifying, Exodus offers a provocative analysis of an issue that affects us all.

Author : Tanja Bastia,Ronald Skeldon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351997751

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Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development by Tanja Bastia,Ronald Skeldon Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development provides an interdisciplinary, agenda-setting survey of the fields of migration and development, bringing together over 60 expert contributors from around the world to chart current and future trends in research on this topic. The links between migration and development can be traced back to the post-war period, if not further, yet it is only in the last 20 years that the 'migration–development nexus' has risen to prominence for academics and policymakers. Starting by mapping the different theoretical approaches to migration and development, this book goes on to present cutting edge research in poverty and inequality, displacement, climate change, health, family, social policy, interventions, and the key challenges surrounding migration and development. While much of the migration literature continues to be dominated by US and British perspectives, this volume includes original contributions from most regions of the world to offer alternative non-Anglophone perspectives. Given the increasing importance of migration in both international development and current affairs, the Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development will be of interest both to policymakers and to students and researchers of geography, development studies, political science, sociology, demography, and development economics.

Author : Mikhail Denisenko,Salvatore Strozza,Matthew Light
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030360757

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Migration from the Newly Independent States by Mikhail Denisenko,Salvatore Strozza,Matthew Light Pdf

This book discusses international migration in the newly independent states after the collapse of the Soviet Union, which involved millions of people. Written by authors from 15 countries, it summarizes the population movement over the post-Soviet territories, both within the newly independent states and in other countries over the past 25 years. It focuses on the volume of migration flows, the number and socio-demographic characteristics of migrants, migration factors and the situation of migrants in receiving countries. The authors, who include demographers, economists, geographers, anthropologists, sociologists and political scientists, used various methods and sources of information, such as censuses, administrative statistics, the results of mass sample surveys and in-depth interviews. This heterogeneity highlights the multifaceted nature of the topic of migration movements.

Author : Rustamjon Urinboyev
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520971257

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Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes by Rustamjon Urinboyev Pdf

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. While migration has become an all-important topic of discussion around the globe, mainstream literature on migrants' legal adaptation and integration has focused on case studies of immigrant communities in Western-style democracies. We know relatively little about how migrants adapt to a new legal environment in the ever-growing hybrid political regimes that are neither clearly democratic nor conventionally authoritarian. This book takes up the case of Russia—an archetypal hybrid political regime and the third largest recipients of migrants worldwide—and investigates how Central Asian migrant workers produce new forms of informal governance and legal order. Migrants use the opportunities provided by a weak rule-of-law and a corrupt political system to navigate the repressive legal landscape and to negotiate—using informal channels—access to employment and other opportunities that are hard to obtain through the official legal framework of their host country. This lively ethnography presents new theoretical perspectives for studying immigrant legal incorporation in similar political contexts.

Author : Michael K. Carroll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Canada
ISBN : 155238845X

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From Kinshasa to Kandahar by Michael K. Carroll Pdf

Author : Denis O'Hearn,Paul Ciccantell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000397604

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Migration, Racism and Labor Exploitation in the World-System by Denis O'Hearn,Paul Ciccantell Pdf

This book offers a historically sweeping yet detailed view of world-systemic migration as a racialized process. Since the early expansion of the world-system, the movement of people has been its central process. Not only have managers of capital moved to direct profitable expansion; they have also forced, cajoled or encouraged workers to move in order to extract, grow, refi ne, manufacture and transport materials and commodities. The book offers historical cases that show that migration introduces and deepens racial dominance in all zones of the world-system. This often forces indigenous and imported slaves or bonded labor to extract, process and move raw materials. Yet it also often creates a contradiction between capital’s need to direct labor to where it enables profitability, and the desires of large sections of dominant populations to keep subordinate people of color marginalized and separate. Case studies reveal how core states are concurrently users and blockers of migrant labor. Key examples are Mexican migrants in the United States, both historically and in contemporary society. The United States even promotes of an image of a society that welcomes the immigrant—while policy realities often quite different. Nonetheless, the volume ends with a vision of a future whereby communities from below, both activists and people simply following their communal interests, can come together to create a society that overcomes racism. Its final chapter is a hopeful call by Immanuel Wallerstein for people to make small changes that, together, can bring real about real, revolutionary change.

Author : Jacques Fomerand
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 973 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538123065

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Historical Dictionary of Human Rights by Jacques Fomerand Pdf

The second edition of Historical Dictionary of Human Rights explores both the theory and the practice of international human rights with a focus on the norms and institutions that make up the “architecture” of the global human rights regime and the tools, processes and procedures through which such norms are realized and “enforced.” Particular attention is given to the contextual political and sociological factors that shape and constrain the operation and functioning of international human rights institutions and their state and non-state actors. This is done through a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1.000 cross-referenced entries on terminology, conventions, treaties, intergovernmental organizations in the United Nations, and non-governmental organizations, as well as some of the pioneers and defenders. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about human rights.

Author : Marlene Laruelle
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498538374

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Constructing the Uzbek State by Marlene Laruelle Pdf

Over the past three decades, Uzbekistan has attracted the attention of the academic and policy communities because of its geostrategic importance, its critical role in shaping or unshaping Central Asia as a region, its economic and trade potential, and its demographic weight: every other Central Asian being Uzbek, Uzbekistan’s political, social, and cultural evolutions largely exemplify the transformations of the region as a whole. And yet, more than 25 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, evaluating Uzbekistan’s post-Soviet transformation remains complicated. Practitioners and scholars have seen access to sources, data, and fieldwork progressively restricted since the early 2000s. The death of President Islam Karimov, in power for a quarter of century, in late 2016, reopened the future of the country, offering it more room for evolution. To better grasp the challenges facing post-Karimov Uzbekistan, this volume reviews nearly three decades of independence. In the first part, it discusses the political construct of Uzbekistan under Karimov, based on the delineation between the state, the elite, and the people, and the tight links between politics and economy. The second section of the volume delves into the social and cultural changes related to labor migration and one specific trigger – the difficulties to reform agriculture. The third part explores the place of religion in Uzbekistan, both at the state level and in society, while the last part looks at the renegotiation of collective identities.