Immigration Controls. The Search for Workable Policies in Germany and the United States

From: The International Migration Review | Date: January 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Immigration Controls. The Search for Workable Policies in Germany and the United States. Edited by Kay Hailbronner, David A. Martin and Hiroshi Motomura. Providence/Oxford: Berghahn Books. 1998. Pp. X; 230.

JEROEN DOOMERNIK

University of Amsterdam

During the past decade, immigrants in general and asylum seekers in particular, never ceased to be high on the agendas of (especially European) policymakers, politicians and, in their wake, journalists. The predominant tone bv which the arrival of immigrants was discussed can be characterized with a single key work: problems. Receiving states ...

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