Browsing UT Communities by Subject "Immigration"
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Attitudes towards immigrants & support for government spending on health care
(2010-05)A steady increase of new immigrants to the United States has sparked a great debate on the financial impact the foreign born population has on public services. While the United States government has an extensive history ... -
Citizenship and global mobility : the international value of national identity
(2013-12)In the past twenty years, a great deal of literature has been produced as to the value of citizenship in the global era. Some scholars insist that globalization has decreased the value of citizenship with the growth of ... -
Collective Remittances and the State: The 3x1 Program in Mexican Municipalities
(2008-09)The Mexican 3x1 Program for Migrants is a matching fund scheme that seeks to direct the money sent by hometown associations abroad (collective remittances) to productive uses. The federal, state and municipal governments ... -
Comparative population policy
(2011-05)In the last thirty years an increasing number of governments are taking an interest in the growth rate and age structure of their populations. The chief concern among advanced economies is that pay-as-you-go pension and ... -
Coyotaje: Clandestine Crossings at the Texas-Mexico Border
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Diáspora, Nomadismo y Exilio en la Literatura Latinoamericana Contemporánea
(2007)El artículo analiza el fenómeno de la diáspora en relación con el exilio y el carácter más general del nomadismo que parece caracterizar la cultura contemporánea en la etapa de la denominada globalización. El razonamiento, ... -
Framing the immigration debate
(2013-05)A common theme in immigration studies in the United States is that the discourse around immigration has changed over time. Once a bipartisan issue where unlikely coalitions and partners were common, recent research has ... -
Getting Carded: Border Control and the Politics of Canada's Permanent Resident Card
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Media cold warriors of Operation Pedro Pan : examining the impact of U.S. Cold War rhetoric on contemporary U.S. foreign policy towards Cuba
(2011-05)"Media cold warriors of Operation Pedro Pan" is a case study in which I examine the impact of 1960s Cold War rhetoric on contemporary U.S.-Cuba policy. In my report, I contextualize the 1960s covert U.S. endeavor Operation ... -
Of "Passport Babies" and "Border Control": The Case of Mavis Baker v. Minister of Citizenship and Immigration
(Atlantis, Vol. 26, No. 2, 2002) -
The political economy of remittances : emigration, social insurance provision, and political behavior in Mexico
(2010-08)Why do international migrants send money home? What are the implications of these monetary flows for developing countries? Long debated by economists and sociologists, these questions have received very little attention ...
