Undesirable Immigrants (eBook)

Why Racism Persists in International Migration

Andrew S. Rosenberg (Autor)

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2022
384 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23875-3 (ISBN)

Infos

How the racist legacy of colonialism shapes global migrationThe Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 officially ended the explicit prejudice in American immigration policy that began with the 1790 restriction on naturalization to free White persons of "e;good character."e; By the 1980s, the rest of the Anglo-European world had followed suit, purging discriminatory language from their immigration laws and achieving what many believe to be a colorblind international system. Undesirable Immigrants challenges this notion, revealing how racial inequality persists in global migration despite the end of formally racist laws.In this eye-opening book, Andrew Rosenberg argues that while today's leaders claim that their policies are objective and seek only to restrict obviously dangerous migrants, these policies are still correlated with race. He traces how colonialism and White supremacy catalyzed violence and sabotaged institutions around the world, and how this historical legacy has produced migrants that the former imperial powers and their allies now deem unfit to enter. Rosenberg shows how postcolonial states remain embedded in a Western culture that requires them to continuously perform their statehood, and how the closing and policing of international borders has become an important symbol of sovereignty, one that imposes harsher restrictions on non-White migrants.Drawing on a wealth of original quantitative evidence, Undesirable Immigrants demonstrates that we cannot address the challenges of international migration without coming to terms with the brutal history of colonialism.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.9.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
• Zusatzinfo: 22 b/w illus. 22 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Abstraction • Ambiguity (law) • americans • atlantic slave trade • autocracy • Bayesian inference • Calvin Coolidge • Civil Society • Colonialism • Colonization • conventional wisdom • Crime • Democracy • Duchy • ecological fallacy • Economic Growth • economic migrant • Finance • Free Trade • Friedrich Nietzsche • Germans • Good Governance • Governance • hegemony • Hide in Plain Sight • Human Rights • Ideology • Immigration • Immigration Policy • Incentive • income • inference • Institution • Intention • intentionality • International communication • International Organization • International Relations • John W. Meyer • Kazakhstan • liberal democracy • Literature • Logistic Regression • Migrant worker • Military Strategy • Mr. • Multilateralism • Nationalism • Nationality • National Myth • nation state • Nativism (politics) • Neoclassical Economics • Neopatrimonialism • North America • nuclear proliferation • Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development • Persecution • person of color • Police • Policy • policy analysis • Politics • Polity • pollution • Pooling (resource management) • Populism • Positivism • Post-Soviet States • Posttraumatic stress disorder • preferential attachment • Presumption of innocence • Pseudoscience • Psychological Trauma • Public Health • Race (human categorization) • Racism • Rational Expectations • right to property • right-wing politics • Social Inequality • Social practice (art) • Social Science • Sovereignty • State of the World (book series) • State (polity) • Sub-Saharan Africa • Superiority (short story) • Symbolic Racism • The Other Hand • un-american • Underdevelopment • University • Variance • Westphalian Sovereignty • white people • white supremacy • World History • World War I • year
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23875-8 / 0691238758
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23875-3 / 9780691238753