An immigrant is defined by the United States (U.S.) Department of Homeland Security as “[a]ny person lawfully in the U.S. who is not a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, or person admitted under a nonimmigrant category”. Yet, refugees and other classes of migrants are differentiated in ...
Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada (Univ. California Press, 2006). Liebig, T. et al. Citizenship and the socio-economic integration of immigrants and their children: an overview across European Union and OECD countries. In Proc. Naturalisation...
2007: Refugees or economic immigrants? Immigration from Latin America and the politics of US refugee policy. In Flores, J. and Rosaldo, R., editors, A companion to Latina/o studies, Oxford: Blackwell, 480-91.Garcia, Maria Cristina. "Refugees or Economic Immigrants? Imigration from Latin ...
forced migrants, refugees, and survivors of torture, human trafficking, and forced labor. Our Asia and Middle East offices assist JCHK on researching refugee labor and work rights, refugee family reunification policies, and climate-induced displacement in the Asia Pacific region, among other matters...
Three types of people seek legal admittance to a country other than their own: (1) temporary visitors who are sometimes referred to as nonimmigrants, (2) individuals designated as lawful permanent residents who have the right to work and remain indefinitely, and (3) refugees seeking asylum. Te...
The term is most often used in the Canadian urban policy literature to describe the discourse, policies, programs, and services that local governments and nongovernmental actors adopt in their approaches to settling and integrating voluntary immigrants and refugees (Esses, Hamilton, Bennett-AbuAyyash, ...
Georgia community fills schoolyard with signs supporting immigrants, refugees While the economic impact of today's actions remains unclear, several economic experts told ABC News that the U.S. economy and workforce would be a "disaster" without immigrants. "If all immigrants were just to disappea...
Seeking entry into the US through the refugee resettlement program is based on "humanitarian" needs and interests and is he most security driven and time consuming. It starts in a UN/US refugee camp like those pictured. Refugees are generally from countries at war or the immediate aftermath wit...
In this paper we compare labour market outcomes for Polish immigrants and their children in Canada and Sweden to understand how they fare in two countries with broadly similar immigration rates and integration policies. Both Canada and Sweden have large immigrant populations and continue to welcome su...
The learners would get three years to work with freedom after they finish their graduation from US universities. This will give students enough time to set up themselves in the US workforce and could likewise get the H-1B visa through the firm they would be working for. US President Obama ...