Sezione Diritto e società

Emigration from Europe 1815-1930

Dudley Baines - Cambridge University Press, 14 set 1995 - 84 pagine  

 

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Why did 60 million people leave Europe for overseas destinations in the hundred years after the Napoleonic Wars? What were the social and economic causes and effects of this mass migration? Why did some people emigrate and not others, and why did so many emigrants return to Europe? This short comprehensive survey answers these and other questions regarding emigration from different parts of Europe in the years between 1815 and 1930. Written specifically for undergraduate students, it reviews the current literature in several European languages, summarises both economic and demographic theories, and analyses the relation between economic change in Europe and the emigration rate, as well as discussing the economic effects of immigration on the receiving countries and the social experiences or the immigrants.

Sezione Diritto e società

The Demography of Roman Italy: Population Dynamics in an Ancient Conquest Society 201 BCE-14 CE

Saskia Hin - Cambridge University Press, 14 feb 2013 - 406 pagine

 

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This book provides a fresh perspective on the population history of Italy during the late Republic. It employs a range of sources and a multidisciplinary approach to investigate demographic trends and the demographic behaviour of Roman citizens. Dr Hin shows how they adapted to changing economic, climatic and social conditions in a period of intense conquest. Her critical evaluation of the evidence on the demographic toll taken by warfare and rising societal complexity leads her to a revisionist 'middle count' scenario of population development in Italy. In tracing the population history of an ancient conquest society, she provides an accessible pathway into Roman demography which focuses on the three main demographic parameters - mortality, fertility and migration. She unites literary and epigraphic sources with demographic theory, archaeological surveys, climatic and skeletal evidence, models and comparative data. Tables, figures and maps enable readers to visualise the quantitative dynamics at work.

Sezione Diritto e società

Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South

Damian Alan Pargas - Cambridge University Press, 2015 - 281 pagine

 

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American slavery in the antebellum period was characterized by a massive wave of forced migration as millions of slaves were moved across state lines to the expanding southwest, scattered locally, and sold or hired out in towns and cities across the South. This book sheds new light on domestic forced migration by examining the experiences of American-born slave migrants from a comparative perspective. Juxtaposing and contrasting the experiences of long-distance, local, and urban slave migrants, it analyzes how different migrant groups anticipated, reacted to, and experienced forced removal, as well as how they adapted to their new homes.

Sezione Diritto e società

Global Crises, Global Solutions: Costs and Benefits

Bjørn Lomborg - Cambridge University Press, 9 lug 2009 - 681 pagine

 

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The first edition of Global Crises, Global Solutions was nominated as one of the books of the year by The Economist in 2004. This second edition asks: if we had more money to spend to help the world's poorest people, where could we spend it most effectively? Using a common framework of cost-benefit analysis a team of leading economists, including five Nobel prize winners, assess the attractiveness of a wide range of policy options for combating ten of the world's biggest problems: Air pollution, Conflicts, Diseases, Education, Global Warming, Malnutrition and Hunger, Sanitation and Clean Water, Subsidies and Trade Barriers, Terrorism, Women and Development. The arguments are clearly presented and fully referenced so that readers are encouraged to make their own evaluation of the menu of policy options on offer. Whether you agree or disagree with the economists' conclusions, there is a wealth of data and ideas to discuss and debate.

Sezione Diritto e società

The Cambridge Handbook of Social Problems 

by A. Javier Treviño (Editor)  - Cambridge University Press, 2018

 The introduction of the Affordable Care Act in the United States, the increasing use of prescription drugs, and the alleged abuse of racial profiling by police are just some of the factors contributing to twenty-first-century social problems. The Cambridge Handbook of Social Problems offers a wide-ranging roster of the social problems currently pressing for attention and amelioration. Unlike other works in this area, it also gives great consideration to theoretical and methodological discussions. This Handbook will benefit both undergraduate and graduate students eager to understand the sociology of social problems. It is suitable for classes in social problems, current events, and social theory. Featuring the most current research, the Handbook provides an especially useful resource for sociologists and graduate students conducting research.

Sezione Diritto e società

Debating Immigration

Carol M. Swain - Cambridge University Press, 30 apr 2007 - 316 pagine

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Debating Immigration presents 18 original essays, written by some of the world's leading experts and preeminent scholars, that explore the nuances of contemporary immigration and citizenship affecting the United States and Europe. The volume is organized around the following themes: religion and philosophy, law and policy, economics and demographics, race and ethnicity, and cosmopolitanism. Critical questions addressed include: What accounts for the disconnect between public attitudes about immigration and the policies produced by elected officials? Why has the United States not developed a well-articulated public philosophy of immigration?

Sezione Diritto e società

Law and the Formation of Modern Europe: Perspectives from the Historical Sociology of Law

Mikael Rask Madsen, Chris Thornhill - Cambridge University Press, 10 lug 2014 - 370 pagine

 

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Law and the Formation of Modern Europe explores processes of legal construction in both the national and supranational domains, and it provides an overview of the modern European legal order. In its supranational focus, it examines the sociological pressures which have given rise to European public law, the national origins of key transnational legal institutions and the elite motivations driving the formation of European law. In its national focus, it addresses legal questions and problems which have assumed importance in parallel fashion in different national societies, and which have shaped European law more indirectly. Examples of this are the post-1914 transformation of classical private law, the rise of corporatism, the legal response to the post-1945 legacy of authoritarianism, the emergence of human rights law and the growth of judicial review. This two-level sociological approach to European law results in unique insights into the dynamics of national and supranational legal formation.

Sezione Diritto e società

Citizenship and Those Who Leave: The Politics of Emigration and Expatriation

Nancy L. Green, Francois Weil - University of Illinois Press, 1 ott 2010 - 336 pagine

 

Exit, like entry, has helped define citizenship over the last two centuries, yet little attention has been given to the politics of emigration. How have countries impeded or facilitated people leaving? How have they perceived and regulated those who leave? What relations do they seek to maintain with their citizens abroad and why? Citizenship and Those Who Leave reverses the immigration perspective to examine how nations define themselves not just through entry but through exit as well.

Sezione Diritto e società

A Nation by Design: immigration policy in the fashioning of America

Aristide R. ZOLBERG, Aristide R Zolberg - Harvard University Press, 30 giu 2009 - 672 pagine

 

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According to the national mythology, the United States has long opened its doors to people from across the globe, providing a port in a storm and opportunity for any who seek it. Yet the history of immigration to the United States is far different. Even before the xenophobic reaction against European and Asian immigrants in the late nineteenth century, social and economic interest groups worked to manipulate immigration policy to serve their needs. In "A Nation by Design," Aristide Zolberg explores American immigration policy from the colonial period to the present, discussing how it has been used as a tool of nation building.
"A Nation by Design" argues that the engineering of immigration policy has been prevalent since early American history. However, it has gone largely unnoticed since it took place primarily on the local and state levels, owing to constitutional limits on federal power during the slavery era. Zolberg profiles the vacillating currents of opinion on immigration throughout American history, examining separately the roles played by business interests, labor unions, ethnic lobbies, and nativist ideologues in shaping policy. He then examines how three different types of migration--legal migration, illegal migration to fill low-wage jobs, and asylum-seeking--are shaping contemporary arguments over immigration to the United States.
"A Nation by Design" is a thorough, authoritative account of American immigration history and the political and social factors that brought it about. With rich detail and impeccable scholarship, Zolberg's book shows how America has struggled to shape the immigration process to construct the kind of population it desires.

Sezione Diritto e società

Revisiting the Law and Governance of Trafficking, Forced Labor and Modern Slavery

Prabha Kotiswaran - Cambridge University Press, 25 mag 2017 - 581 pagine

 

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In the decades following the globalization of the world economy, trafficking, forced labor and modern slavery have emerged as significant global problems. States negotiated the Palermo Protocol in 2000 under which they agreed to criminalize trafficking, primarily understood as an issue of serious organized crime. Sixteen years later, leading academics, activists and policy makers from international organizations come together in this edited volume and adopt an inter-disciplinary, multi-stakeholder approach to revisit trafficking through the lens of labor migration and extreme exploitation and, in the process, rethink the law and governance of trafficking. This volume considers many key factors, including the evolving international law on trafficking, the relationship between trafficking, slavery, indenture and domestic migration law and policy as well as newly emergent techniques of governance, including indicators, all with a view to furthering prospects for lasting economic justice in a globalized world.

Sezione Diritto e società

The National Versus the Foreigner in South America: 200 Years of Migration and Citizenship Law

Diego Acosta - Cambridge University Press, 24 mag 2018 - 292 pagine

 

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Since the turn of the century, South American governments and regional organisations have adopted the world's most open discourse on migration and citizenship. At a time when restrictive choices were becoming increasingly predominant around the world, South American policymakers presented their discourse as being both an innovative and exceptional 'new paradigm' and part of a morally superior, avant-garde path in policymaking. This book provides a critical examination of the South American legal framework through a historical and comparative analysis. Diego Acosta uses this analysis to assess whether the laws are truly innovative and exceptional, as well as evaluating their feasibility, strengths and weaknesses. By analysing the legal construction of the national and the foreigner in ten South American countries during the last two centuries, he demonstrates how different citizenship and migration laws have functioned, as well as showing why states have opted for certain regulation choices, and the consequence of these choices for state- and nation-building in the continent. An invaluable insight for anyone interested in global migration and citizenship discussions.

Sezione Diritto e società

Vergogna ed esclusione: L'Europa di fronte alla sfida dell'emigrazione

A cura di Umberto Curi - LIT EDIZIONI, 2017 

 

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Chiacchiere propagandistiche, balbettii inconcludenti, formule astratte: il dibattito politico sul fenomeno dei flussi migratori sembra incapace di uscire dall’orizzonte angusto della disputa puramente ideologica, oscillando fra l’ipotesi odiosa dei “respingimenti” e una troppo generica proposta di “accoglienza”. Analizzare questo fenomeno in termini realistici, studiare i dati oggettivi in cui esso si traduce, inquadrare la questione dell’immigrazione nel contesto della distribuzione delle risorse a livello planetario, descrivere lo scenario economico, demografico e sociologico che ci attende nei prossimi decenni: è questo il “progetto” alla base di questo libro. Studiosi di competenze diverse – dal filosofo al sociologo, dal giurista al demografo, dal magistrato all’esperto di politica internazionale – si confrontano per aprire un terreno di riflessione in larga misura ancora inesplorato. Con l’ambizione di promuovere una discussione che sia all’altezza delle sfide che abbiamo davanti.

Sezione Diritto e società

Storia dell'immigrazione straniera in Italia: dal 1945 ai nostri giorni

Michele Colucci - Carocci editore, 2018 - 243 pagine

 

Per la prima volta si propone una ricostruzione storica dell'immigrazione straniera in Italia, a partire dal 1945. Ingressi, flussi, leggi, generazioni, lavori, conflitti e speranze si intrecciano con un ritmo sempre più incalzante fino ad arrivare ai nostri giorni. Il volume traccia la dimensione quantitativa del fenomeno nel corso del tempo e la sua evoluzione, il radicamento sul territorio, le politiche adottate per governarlo, le polemiche che ne sono scaturite, l'impatto che ha avuto sulla società. Le fonti utilizzate sono numerose: dalle inchieste sociali al dibattito politico, dalle testimonianze dei protagonisti alle statistiche, dagli archivi istituzionali fino alle cronache dei giornali. Ne emerge il profilo sfaccettato di una grande trasformazione, indispensabile per capire l'Italia di oggi.

Sezione Diritto e società

Immigration Law and Society

John S. W. Park - John Wiley & Sons, 10 lug 2018 - 220 pagine

 

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The Immigration Act of 1965 was one of the most consequential laws ever passed in the United States and immigration policy continues to be one of the most contentious areas of American politics. As a "nation of immigrants," the United States has a long and complex history of immigration programs and controls which are deeply connected to the shape of American society today.

This volume makes sense of the political history and the social impacts of immigration law, showing how legislation has reflected both domestic concerns and wider foreign policy. John S. W. Park examines how immigration law reforms have inspired radically different responses across all levels of government, from cooperation to outright disobedience, and how they continue to fracture broader political debates. He concludes with an overview of how significant, on-going challenges in our interconnected world, including "failed states" and climate change, will shape American migrations for many decades to come.

Sezione Diritto e società

Protect, Serve, and Deport: The Rise of Policing as Immigration Enforcement

Amada Armenta - Univ of California Press, 26 giu 2017 - 197 pagine

 

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, the UC Press open access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

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Protect, Serve, and Deport exposes the on-the-ground workings of local immigration enforcement in Nashville, Tennessee. Between 2007 and 2012, Nashville’s local jail participated in an immigration enforcement program called 287(g), which turned jail employees into immigration officers who identified over ten thousand removable immigrants for deportation. The vast majority of those identified for removal were not serious criminals, but Latino residents arrested by local police for minor violations. Protect, Serve, and Deport explains how local politics, state laws, institutional policies, and police practices work together to deliver immigrants into an expanding federal deportation system, conveying powerful messages about race, citizenship, and belonging.

Sezione Diritto pubblico

Extraterritorial Immigration Control: Legal Challenges

Bernhard Ryan, Valsamis Mitsilegas - BRILL, 2010 - 449 pagine  

 

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A central element of contemporary border regimes is their application to migrants before they reach a state's territory. The main forms of this extraterritorial immigration control are visa requirements, pre-embarkation immigration controls and the interception of irregular migrants at sea. This work analyses the complex relationship of the law to these practices, as legal guarantees are potentially avoided, while the legality of control is often uncertain. It examines the international law framework, including the law of the sea and the extraterritorial application of principles of "non-refoulement" contained in the Refugee Convention and in international human rights law. The work also includes detailed case-studies of the legal challenges posed by extraterritorial immigration controls in Europe, Australia and the United States.

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Migrant Smuggling by Sea: Combating a Current Threat to Maritime Security through the Creation of a Cooperative Framework

Patricia Mallia - BRILL, 3 ott 2009 - 304 pagine

 

This monograph searches for a solution to the crime of migrant smuggling by sea aimed at reconciling 21st century exigencies with age-old, fundamental principles such as the freedom of the high seas.

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Legal Order in the World's Oceans: UN Convention on the Law of the Sea

Myron H. Nordquist, John Norton Moore, Ronán Long 

BRILL, 16 ott 2017 - 480 pagine

 

Legal Order in the World’s Oceans: UN Convention on the Law of the Sea assesses the impact of the 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and many aspects and challenges of modern law of the sea.

Sezione Storia del diritto

Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship

Rachel Buff - NYU Press, 2008 - 446 pagine

 

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Punctuated by marches across the United States in the spring of 2006, immigrant rights has reemerged as a significant and highly visible political issue. Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of U.S. Citizenship brings prominent activists and scholars together to examine the emergence and significance of the contemporary immigrant rights movement. Contributors place the contemporary immigrant rights movement in historical and comparative contexts by looking at the ways immigrants and their allies have staked claims to rights in the past, and by examining movements based in different communities around the United States. Scholars explain the evolution of immigration policy, and analyze current conflicts around issues of immigrant rights; activists engaged in the current movement document the ways in which coalitions have been built among immigrants from different nations, and between immigrant and native born peoples. The essays examine the ways in which questions of immigrant rights engage broader issues of identity, including gender, race, and sexuality.

Sezione Storia del diritto

Migration Control in the North Atlantic World: The Evolution of State Practices in Europe and the United States from the French Revolution to the Inter-War Period

Andreas Fahrmeir, Olivier Faron, Patrick Weil - Berghahn Books, 2005 - 322 pagine

 

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The migration movements of the 20th century have led to an increased interest in similarly dramatic population changes in the preceding century. The contributors to this volume - legal scholars, sociologists, political scientist and historians - focus on migration control in the 19th century, concentrating on three areas in particular: the impact of the French Revolution on the development of modern citizenship laws and on the development of new forms of migration control in France and elsewhere; the theory and practice of migration control in various European states is examined, focusing on the control of paupers, emigrants and "ordinary" travelers as well as on the interrelationship between the different administrative levels - local, regional and national - at which migration control was exercised. Finally, on the development of migration control in two countries of immigration: the United States and France. Taken altogether, these essays demonstrate conclusively that the image of the 19th century as a liberal era during which migration was unaffected by state intervention is untenable and in serious need of revision.