by Philip Martin (2009)
American agriculture employs some 2.5 million workers during a typical year, most for fewer than six months. Three fourths of these farm workers are immigrants, half are unauthorized, and most will leave seasonal farm work within a decade. What do these statistics mean for farmers, for laborers, for rural America? This book addresses the question by reviewing what is happening on farms and in the towns and cities where immigrant farm workers settle with their families. Philip Martin finds that the business-labor model that has evolved in rural America is neither desirable nor sustainable. He proposes regularizing U.S. farm workers and rationalizing the farm labor market, an approach that will help American farmers stay globally competitive while also improving conditions for farm workers.
Peter S. Li
"A succinct critical analysis of contemporary immigration issues, Destination Canada will be essential reading not only for students in courses addressing topics such as immigration, race and ethnic relations, transnationalism, and globalization, but also for anyone engaged in the public debates about immigration."--BOOK JACKET.
Jef Huysmans
"In this volume, Jef Huysmans critically engages with theoretical developments in international relations and security studies to develop a fresh conceptual framework for studying security." "Huysmans argues that security policies and responses do not appear out of the blue, but are part of a continuous and gradual process, pre-structured by previous developments. Huysmans examines the processes of securitization and explores how an issue, on the basis of the distribution and administration of fear, becomes a security policy. Applying this theory, he then provides a detailed analysis of migration, asylum and refuge in the European Union."--Jacket.
Anna Triandafyllidou
"National identity and nationalism are social phemomena of increasing importance in contemporary society and politics. Over the past few decades, European identities in particular have been called into question by peripheral nationalisms, the revival of ethnic allegiances, religious communities and the creation of social movements preaching universal values. National identity may be surviving the upheaval, but it is not surviving unchanged." "This work explores the role of Others, nations, ethnic groups and immigrant communities, in the formation and evolution of national identity." "Scholars and students of Sociology and Social Psychology, particularly those working in the fields of Nationalism and Ethnicity, Ethnic and Race Relations, Immigration Studies, Comparative Sociology, Southern European Politics and International Relations, will find this work pivotal in ascribing importance to the Other in national identity."--Jacket.
Barry Eichengreen
Globalization and economic integration are putting the American and European economies in ever closer competition. Meanwhile, the end of the Cold War has removed the traditional glue for transatlantic cooperation. This book asks whether the trend will be toward increased conflict or collaboration. Will policymakers in Europe and the United States be encouraged by their mutual interests to collaborate in the pursuit of common goals? Or will competition fan conflict and recrimination now that the Cold War has ended and their common enemy has disappeared?