Product Description: This publication aims to fill a significant knowledge gap on the human rights of irregular migrants. It seeks to describe barriers faced by irregular migrants in the exercise of such fundamental rights as the right to health, to education, to an adequate standard of living, to social security, and to just and favourable conditions of work, as well as trends and national policies, highlighting where possible examples of promising practice from around the world...read more

Product Description: Not all immigrants in America are here legally. Many of these undocumented immigrants come here along a dangerous path, crossing deserts or oceans. Arm yourself with information to join the national conversation on undocumented immigrants...read more

Product Description: Criminologists are increasingly turning their attention to the many points of intersection between immigration and crime control. This book discusses the detection of unlawful non-citizens as a distinct form of policing which is impacting on a growing range of agencies and sections of society...read more

Product Description: How should a State treat an irregular migrant worker, i.e. a foreign worker without authorization to stay and/or work in the country, who is confronted with the realization of a social risk? For instance, how should the State deal with an irregular migrant worker who becomes incapacitated for work due to a labor accident? Should he/she be treated like any other worker and qualify for income replacement benefits, medical benefits, and labor-market reintegration measures? Or should the worker be denied benefits since he/she lacks work authorization and may also lack authorization to be in the country? This book addresses these questions and sets out proposals on how irregular migrant workers should be treated in national social security law...read more

During the past decade, human smuggling across national borders grew from a low-level border crossing activity in a handful of countries to a diverse multibillion dollar business spanning the entire globe. New laws in several states, the creation and expansion of new enforcement and management agencies with enormous budgets, and multilateral programs around the world are currently being developed to combat human smuggling. But how well do we understand it? This volume explores the global dimensions of human smuggling in several forms and regions, examining its deep social, economic, and cultural roots and its broad political consequences.Part I discusses the sociohistorical context and contemporary diversity of human smuggling of migrants, asylum-seekers, and those who are tricked into slavery, including the conflicting role of states and corrupt state officials as contributing to the problem. In Part II, the authors present high profile case studies that include U.S.-Mexican border smuggling, the international business of trafficking women from the former Soviet Union, and the origins and social organization of human smuggling as a global business from China and Southeast Asia. In Part III, contributors examine the politics of human smuggling, looking more closely at the legal construction of victimized women trafficked into slavery, the social construction of smuggled immigrants as threats to the social order, and the sanctioning of unauthorized employment of illegal immigrants. Contributors: Peter Andreas, Reed College • Ko-Lin Chin, Rutgers University, Newark • John Dale, University of California, Davis • Nora Demleitner, St. Mary's University • James O. Finckenauer, National Institute of Justice • H. Richard Friman, Marquette University • Khalid Koser, University College, London • Rey Koslowski, Rutgers University, Newark • Peter Kwong, Hunter College • David Kyle, University of California, Davis • Zai Liang, City University of New York • Mark J. Miller, University of Delaware • Eileen Scully, Princeton University • David Spener, Trinity University • Wenzhen Ye, Xiamen University

Product Description: The majority of Americans believe the current immigration system is in need of reform but there is little agreement on which parts need fixing and how best to fix them. Through objective overviews, primary sources, and full-color illustrations this title examines: How Does Immigration Affect the Economy? How Does Immigration Affect Society? How Should U...read more

Presents an overview of illegal immigration, discussing the extent of the problem, which countries the immigrants come from, what life is like for illegal immigrants, and what Americans think about them.