Opening the Floodgates: Why America Needs to Rethink its Borders and Immigration Laws (Critical America) - Softcover

Buch 38 von 45: Critical America

Johnson, Kevin R.

 
9780814743096: Opening the Floodgates: Why America Needs to Rethink its Borders and Immigration Laws (Critical America)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0814743099 ISBN 13: 9780814743096
Verlag: Combined Academic Publ., 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Seeking to re-imagine the meaning and significance of the international border, Opening the Floodgates makes a case for eliminating the border as a legal construct that impedes the movement of people into this country.
Open migration policies deserve fuller analysis, as evidenced by President Barack Obama's pledge to make immigration reform a priority. Kevin R. Johnson offers an alternative vision of how U.S. borders might be reconfigured, grounded in moral, economic, and policy arguments for open borders. Importantly, liberalizing migration through an open borders policy would recognize that the enforcement of closed borders cannot stifle the strong, perhaps irresistible, economic, social, and political pressures that fuel international migration.
Controversially, Johnson suggests that open borders are entirely consistent with efforts to prevent terrorism that have dominated immigration enforcement since the events of September 11, 2001. More liberal migration, he suggests, would allow for full attention to be paid to the true dangers to public safety and national security.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kevin R. Johnson is Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicano/a Studies at the University of California Davis. His books include Mixed Race America and the Law: A Reader (NYU Press, 2002) and The "Huddled Masses" Myth: Immigration and Civil Rights.

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Verlag
Combined Academic Publ.
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0814743099
ISBN 13 
9780814743096
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
304
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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