Proceedings of the 1998 annual National Legal Conference on Immigration and Refugee Policy
By: edited by Lydio F. Tomasi
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: In defense of the alien -- v. 21
Publisher: Center for Migration Studies
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Noncitizens; Congresses; Refugees; Legal status, laws; Emigration and immigration law; Right of Asylum; Emigration and immigration; Government policy
Other titles: Unintended consequences of the '96 immigration reform
Notes: "Unintended consequences of the '96 immigration reform; grounds for removal; legalization, naturalization and citizenship; temporary migration for business purposes; asylum eligibility and asylum processing."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Present and future of immigration reform / Melvin L. Watt; title: 2. INS perspectives / Robert Bach; title: 3. Effects upon immigrants' rights / Lenni B. Benson; title: 4. Immigration reform, welfare reform, and future patterns of US immigration / Thomas J. Espenshade, Jessica L. Baraka, Gregory A. Huber; title: 5. Ongoing court challenges to the law / Lucas Guttentag; title: 6. Broader implications for US law / Thomas Edward Mosley; title: 7. Models of citizenship / T. Alexander Aleinkoff; title: 8. Becoming an American : US immigrant policy / Susan Martin; title: 9. Current debates about US citizenship / Peter Schuck; title: 10. Global labor markets and high skilled workers; title: 11. Shortages, wages and qualified workers : options for dealing with nonimmigrants / Philip Martin; title: 12. Congressional perspective on nonimmigrant visas for high skilled personnel / Stuart Anderson; title: 13. The developing law of "private" persecution and its implications for convention refugee definition / Mark von Sternberg; title: 14. The future of asylum / Arthur C. Helton; title: 15. Transatlantic convergence : governmental nations of asylum eligibility / Jonas Widgren; title: 16. The myth of asylum abuse in Western Europe, Canada and the United States / Mark Gibney; title: 17. INS implementation of expedited removal / Phyllis Coven; title: 18. Recent research on expedited removal / Deborah Anker; title: 19. Impacts of new procedures / Carol Buckner; title: 20. Expedited removal then and now / Bill Frelick ...