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– Poverty among Immigrants in Denmark and Sweden since 1984
The paper focuses on the problems of low income among immigrants, analysed by using comparable panel datasets for two Scandinavian welfare states. After a brief survey of a few earlier studies on immigrant poverty, we present Denmark and Sweden as interesting cases for comparative research. Cyclical...
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– Poverty and Income Distribution Among Immigrants in Denmark and Sweden Since 1984
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Poverty, International Migration and Asylum
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– Implications for Countries of Origin
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Poverty, International Migration and Asylum
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The purpose of this paper is to synthesize what is known about the influence of asylum migration on countries of origin. It combines an analysis of data, a review of the literature and empirical examples from our own research. In the first section we consider the effects of the absence of refugees...
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– Past Trends, Future Possibilities
This article examines the policy responses of Western countries in the realm of asylum. We begin by explaining the reasons why the asylum issue has made its way up the political agendas of liberal democratic countries in recent years. While applications for asylum have risen in the last two decades...
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– Past Trends, Future Policies
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Poverty, International Migration and Asylum
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– Security Against the Few
During the last decade measures of overt and covert surveillance, information sharing and deterrence of the illegal movement of people has increased within and between states. Border security has come to dominate international relations, and increasingly to deflect the needs of asylum-seekers who...
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We examine the ways in which candidate countries which are to join the EU in 2004 are responding to increasing asylum migration from the East and assess the impact of accession on their asylum and immigration laws and policies. It will be argued that recent changes in asylum and immigration laws in...
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– The Impact of EU Accession on Asylum and Immigration Policies in Central and Eastern Europe
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Poverty, International Migration and Asylum
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– Argentina in the Twentieth Century
At the turn of the twentieth century, a large number of Europeans, mostly from Italy and Spain, left their homelands and headed to the distant shores of Argentina in response to the good economic opportunities, fertile land and hopes for a better future that were to be found there. At the time...
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– The Mexico-US Case
This paper explains the evolution and effects of Mexico-US migration, and highlights the NAFTA approach to economic integration, viz., free up trade and investment while stepping up efforts to prevent unauthorized migration. The European Union approach is different: provide aid first, and later free...
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– The Mexico-United States Case
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Poverty, International Migration and Asylum
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– An Analysis using a Multiregional CGE Model
This paper computes the worldwide efficiency gains from the elimination of global restrictions on labour mobility using a multiregional CGE model. A distinctive feature of our analysis is the introduction of a segmented labour market, as two types of labour are considered: skilled and unskilled...
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– An Analysis Using a Multiregional CGE Model
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Poverty, International Migration and Asylum
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