Nothing more precious is at stake than how we view ourselves as a nation. A white-hot flash point has ignited intense arguments over immigration. The source: an influx of illegal aliens crossing US borders. Should we be true to our heritage and welcome all who enter? Should we secure our borders? Who should enter? How many?
After introducing the basic elements of bure aucracies, this volume goes on to examine the myriad relatio nships between politicians and bureaucrats in both president ial systems and in parliamentary systems. '
Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric of Assimilation
This text considers immigration in the context of the global and national economy, examining such often-overlooked issues as the competition between immigrants and African Americans, inter-group tension, and ethnic separatism.
The New Nativism and the Anti-Immigrant Impulse in the United States
Nativism--an intense opposition to immigrants and other non- native members of society--has been deeply imbedded in the American character from the earliest days of the nation. Correspondingly, nativism, overtly or covertly, has always permeated our national discourse. Dating from the Alien and Sedition controversy of 1798 to California's recent ......
Examines the opinions of average Americans about Washington, DC, in order to understand how many Americans are likely to approach the question of what reforms are needed. This book explores the political, economic, and social conditions of the District, providing an informed context for understanding and evaluating its political options.
This broad-ranging text offers a comprehensive analysis of the possibilities and limitations of the idea of citizenship, and its relevance to social problems and social policies in advanced industrial societies. Fred Twine demonstrates that two concepts are essential to an understanding of the issue of citizenship: the socially embedded nature of human agents, and their interdependence with each other and with the natural and social worlds they inhabit. In contrast to the glorification of a presumed free-floating consumer, Twine emphasises the social nature of individual needs and individual rights. He also shows that interdependence is not limited to the mutual linkages within advanced industrial societies, but extends both to the relations between developed and developing nations, and to the environmental contexts of human existence. Showing how a truly social vision of citizenship offers ways in which human worlds are socially created, and can be re-created, Citizenship and Social Rights will be of interest to scholars and students in sociology, social policy, politics and philosophy.
This work suggests that while immigration made a vital contribution to the economic and social vitality of America's gateway cities, immigration restriction, coupled with middle-class flight to the suburbs, contributed to the rapid deterioration of those same centres.
In this timely contribution to the debates on citizenship, Elizabeth Meehan provides an incisive analysis of the meaning of citizenship, and the links between civil, political and social citizenship. The book provides a clear account of the development of social rights within the European community in three key areas: social security and assistance; participation by workers in the undertakings in which they are employed; and the equal treatment of men and women. The author critically assesses the extent to which inequalities of class, gender and ethnicity are successfully addressed by community social policies.
A General History of the Polish Immigration in America
The first Polish presence in North America lies shrouded in the mists of historical legend. There most certainly were Poles in the Jamestown colony as early as 1608; yet there exists only fragmentary and inconclusive evidence regarding either an earlier Polish presence or the purpose and activities of those who settled in colonial Virginia. There ......
