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Thinking the unthinkable : the immigration myth exposed
- Title
- Thinking the unthinkable : the immigration myth exposed / Nigel Harris.
- Author
- Harris, Nigel, 1935-
- Publication
- London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2002.
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Details
- Description
- xx, 183 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- In this text, Nigel Harris exposes the xenophobic myths surrounding immigration, arguing that rather than increasing unemployment in the host nation, immigrants do the work others will not, and without them economies would dissolve.
- Subject
- UN High Commissioner for Refugees
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
- Emigration and immigration
- Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects
- Foreign workers
- emigration
- immigration
- migrations (events)
- Migration period (Medieval culture or period)
- Emigration and immigration
- Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects
- Foreign workers
- Einwanderung
- Immigranten
- Arbeidsmarkt
- migrant workers
- migration policy
- irregular migration
- refugee
- racial discrimination
- travailleur migrant
- politique migratoire
- migration irrégulière
- réfugié
- discrimination raciale
- inmigración
- trabajador migrante
- política migratoria
- migración irregular
- refugiado
- discriminación racial
- IMMIGRANTS
- HUMAN RIGHTS
- IMMIGRATION POLICY
- IMMIGRATION LAW
- Industriestaaten
- Entwicklungsländer
- developed countries
- developing countries
- Europe
- Japan
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- USA
- pays développés
- pays en développement
- Japon
- Etats-Unis
- Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord
- países desarrollados
- países en desarrollo
- Europa
- Japón
- Estados Unidos
- Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-171) and index.
- Contents
- Prologue -- Introduction : The horrors -- Movement -- Wrestling with the hydra -- Why control immigration? Reactions and arguments -- Why countries need immigration -- The system collapses -- The right to work, the freedom to move and the eradication of world poverty -- Appendices : I. Inventing Xenophobia : A British cautionary tale -- II. American immigration -- III. Destroying the right to asylum -- IV. The ultimate in government foolishness : Singapore -- V. Average fees paid for clandestine travel and entry -- Who says Silicon Valley is American? -- Tables and figures.
- ISBN
- 1860646719
- 9781860646713
- 1860646727
- 9781860646720
- OCLC
- ocm48860340
- 48860340
- SCSB-1237133
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library