International Migration and Human Rights : The Global Repercussions of U. S. Policy

A multidisciplinary group of scholars examines how the actions of the United States as a global leader are worsening pressures on people worldwide to migrate, while simultaneously degrading migrant rights. Uniting such diverse issues as market reform, drug policy, and terrorism under a common framework of human rights, the book constitutes a call for a new vision on immigration. The political economy of migration in an era of globalization / Douglas S. Massey Ports of entry in the "Homeland Security" era: inequality of mobility and the securitization of transnational flows / Josiah McC. Heyman The treatment of noncitizens after September 11 in historical context / J.C. Salyer Mexicans of mass destruction: national security and Mexican immigration in a pre- and post-9/11 world / Leo R. Chavez The demonization of persons of Arab and Muslim ancestry in historical perspective / Susan M. Akram and Kevin R. Johnson Security and insecurity in a global "war on terrorism": Arab-Muslim immigrant experience in post-9/11 America / Christopher Dole Policing the borders in the heartland / Nancy A. Naples An anatomy of Mexican repatriation: human rights and the borderlands of complicity / Tricia Gabany-Guerrero Discourses on danger and dreams of prosperity: confounding U.S. government positions on "trafficking" from the former Soviet Union / Alexia Bloch "We are not terrorists!" Uighurs, Tibetans, and the "global war on terror" / Julia Meredith Hess The impact of Plan Colombia on forced displacement / Maria Teresa Restrepo-Ruiz and Samuel Martínez Challenging U.S. silence: international NGOs and the Iraqi refugee crisis / Kathryn Libal and Scott Harding. "While debate about immigration rages within the United States, people worldwide are moving across national borders with unprecedented intensity. In this timely volume, leading scholars in sociology, anthropology, history, and law examine how the actions of the United States as a global leader are increasing pressures on people to migrate, while simultaneously degrading migrant rights from East Asia to Mexico. Uniting such diverse issues as market reform, drug policy, and terrorism under a common framework of human rights, the book constitutes a call for a new vision on immigration more comprehensive than anything yet imagined in the U.S. immigration debate. The volume includes essays by Susan M. Akram, Alexia Bloch, Leo R. Chavez, Christopher Dole, Tricia Gabany-Guerrero, Scott Harding. Julia Meredith Hess, Josiah McC. Heyman, Kevin R. Johnson, Kathryn Libal, Samuel Martínez, Douglas S. Massey, Carole Nagengast, Nancy A. Naples, María Teresa Restrepo-Ruiz, and J.C. Salyer. "[résumé commercial] Examines how the actions of the United States as a global leader are worsening pressures on people worldwide to migrate, while simultaneously degrading migrant rights.This work discusses such issues as market reform, drug policy and terrorism under a common framework of human rights.