International migration and human rights
Subtitle: the global repercussions of U.S. policy
By: edited by Samuel Martínez.
Contributors: Martínez, Samuel, 1959-
Series: Global, area, and international archive; Global, area, and international archive
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780520258211
Subjects: Emigration and immigration -- Government policy; Immigrants -- Civil rights; Immigrants -- Civil rights -- United States; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
Description: pages ; cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The political economy of migration in an era of globalization / Douglas S. Massey; title: Ports of entry in the "Homeland Security" era: inequality of mobility and the securitization of transnational flows / Josiah McC. Heyman; title: The treatment of noncitizens after September 11 in historical context / J.C. Salyer; title: Mexicans of mass destruction: national security and Mexican immigration in a pre- and post-9/11 world / Leo R. Chavez; title: The demonization of persons of Arab and Muslim ancestry in historical perspective / Susan M. Akram and Kevin R. Johnson; title: Security and insecurity in a global "war on terrorism": Arab-Muslim immigrant experience in post-9/11 America / Christopher Dole; title: Policing the borders in the heartland / Nancy A. Naples; title: An anatomy of Mexican repatriation: human rights and the borderlands of complicity / Tricia Gabany-Guerrero; title: Discourses on danger and dreams of prosperity: confounding U.S. government positions on "trafficking" from the former Soviet Union / Alexia Bloch; title: "We are not terrorists!" Uighurs, Tibetans, and the "global war on terror" / Julia Meredith Hess; title: The impact of Plan Colombia on forced displacement / Maria Teresa Restrepo-Ruiz and Samuel Martínez; title: Challenging U.S. silence: international NGOs and the Iraqi refugee crisis / Kathryn Libal and Scott Harding.