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Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Borders sit at the center of global politics. Yet they are too often understood as thin lines, as they appear on maps, rather than as political institutions in their own right. This book takes a detailed look at the evolution of border security in the United States after 9/11. Far from the walls and fences that dominate the news, it reveals borders to be thick, multi-faceted and binational institutions that have evolved greatly in recent decades....
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Series
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Although political philosophers debate the morality of open borders, few social scientists have explored what would happen if immigration were no longer limited. This book looks at three historical examples of temporarily unrestricted migration into the United States, France, and Ireland: the arrival of Mariel Cubans in Miami (Florida) in 1980, the flight of Pied Noir and Harki refugees from Algeria to Marseille in 1962, and the migration of Poles...
Author
Publisher
C.A. Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
Description
Estados Unidos venera su origen inmigrante, pero se esta hundiendo en un sentimiento antiinmigrante extraordinario. Esta es una llamada de atenciaon para el bien del paais y todos sus ciudadanos.
Discusses the issues faced by new immigrants to the United States.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Lexile measure
1330L
Language
English
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"Mark Robert Rank shows that the fundamental causes of poverty are to be found in our economic structure and political policy failures, rather than individual shortcomings or attitudes. He establishes for the first time that a significant percentage of Americans will experience poverty during their adult lifetimes and ... demonstrates that poverty is an issue of vital national concern"--jacket.
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Lexile measure
1210L
Language
English
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"American Gulag takes us inside prisons such as the Krome North Service Processing Center in Miami, the Corrections Corporation of America's Houston Processing Center, and county jails around the country that profit from contracts to hold INS prisoners. It contains disturbing in-depth profiles of detainees, including Emmy Kutesa, a defector from the Ugandan army who was tortured and then escaped to the United States, where he was imprisoned in Queens,...
99) Pesticides
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Description
Explores a variety of issues related to pesticides, including whether they are negatively affecting human health, how they are interacting with the environment, whether they are needed to feed the world, and what the future of pesticides might be.
