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Reorganizing the U.S. immigration function : toward a new framework for accountability
- Title
- Reorganizing the U.S. immigration function : toward a new framework for accountability / Demetrios G. Papademetriou, T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Deborah Waller Meyers.
- Author
- Papademetriou, Demetrios G.
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, ©1998.
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- Description
- viii, 63 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- At current migration rates, about two-thirds of U.S. population growth in the next fifty years will be attributable to immigrants, their children, and their grandchildren. Despite the issue's importance, the Immigration and Naturalization Service has relatively low stature, and no formal structure exists within the Executive Branch for coherent immigration policy development. This is especially problematic because the immigration function cuts across numerous critical policy issues ranging from social security, welfare, and human resources to education, economic competitiveness, law enforcement, and foreign policy. Frustration with INS performance has been mounting for a decade, as have charges that the system is incoherent, overburdened, poorly run, and accountable to no one. Some in Congress now propose dismantling the agency and distributing its functions to other agencies. The authors of this book argue that, among the several reform proposals that have been proffered, theirs is the only effort to redesign the system in light of its fundamental objectives. Their proposal, calling for a new, high-level agency to direct and consolidate the nation's immigration system, also seeks to establish a clear distinction between enforcement and services and to improve the delivery of all programs, including the trouble-plagued services. -- Amazon.com.
- Series Statement
- International Migration Policy Program ; 7
- Uniform Title
- International Migration Policy Program (Series) ; 7.
- Alternative Title
- Reorganizing the US immigration function
- Reorganizing the United States immigration function
- Subject
- United States. Immigration and Naturalization Service > Reorganization
- United States. Immigration and Naturalization Service
- Immigrants > Government policy > United States
- Administrative agencies > Reorganization
- Emigration and immigration > Government policy
- Immigrants > Government policy
- United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy
- United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction 2. Historical Pathways: Neopatrimonial Authoritarianism and International Vulnerability 3. Democratic Struggles and Failures, 1961 1966 4. Authoritarian Balaguer and Democratic Transition, 1966 1978 5. The Struggle for Democratic Politics, 1978 1996: Social Evolution and Political Rules 6. The PRD in Power, 1978 1986: A Missed Opportunity 7. Balaguer Returns, 1986 1996: The Tensions of Neopatrimonial Democracy 8. Parties, State Institutions, and Elections, 1978 1994 9. A New Transition: Prospects and Conclusions App. A. Election Results by Level of Urbanization, 1962 1994 App. B. Socioeconomic and Public Sector Data.
- ISBN
- 0870031384
- 9780870031380
- LCCN
- 98073642
- OCLC
- ocm39904009
- 39904009
- SCSB-508004
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library