L'IMMIGRAZIONE NEGLI
STATI UNITI D'AMERICA
(ultimo aggiornamento: 8 luglio 2005)

Immigrazione negli USA
  
Dati e ricerche sulla presenza di immigrati
 
Politiche USA in materia di immigrazione ed asilo
  
Normativa in materia di immigrazione ed asilo
             
Razzismo
 
Immigrazione clandestina
 
L'occupazione degli immigrati negli USA
  
High-Skilled workers (Lavoratori altamente qualificati)
             
11 settembre
  
Educazione
  
Centri di detenzione per stranieri
  
Condizione abitativa

Riferimenti
  
 
 



immigrazione negli USA


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Dati e ricerche sulla presenza di immigrati

 

 


Politiche USA in materia di immigrazione ed asilo

 

Politiche in materia di richiedenti asilo

 


Normativa in materia di immigrazione ed asilo


Razzismo

 

Indirizzi web utili

  • Race, Racism and the Law Sito statunitense che esamina il ruolo della normativa degli USA e internazionale nel promuovere o combattere il razzismo . Il sito contiene bibliografie, sentenze, articoli e altri documenti sul razzismo


Immigrazione clandestina

Ingressi di irregolari al confine USA - Messico

  • FRONTERA NORTE SUR FNS provides on-line news coverage of the US-Mexico border (informazioni mensili)

Movimenti contro l'immigrazione clandestina

Traffico di migranti


L'occupazione degli immigrati negli USA

 


High-Skilled workers
(Lavoratori altamente qualificati)

 


Comunità immigrate

  • International Migration, Self-Selection, and the Distribution of Wages: Evidence from Mexico and the United States September 2002 Daniel Chiquiar University of California, San Diego Gordon H. Hanson University of California, San Diego and National Bureau of Economic Research September 2002
    In this paper, we use data from the Mexico and U.S. population censuses to examine who migrates from Mexico to the United States and how the skills and economic performance of these individuals compare to those who remain in Mexico. We test Borjas. negative-selection hypothesis that in poor countries the individuals with the strongest incentive to migrate to rich countries are those with relatively low skill levels. We find that 1) Mexican immigrants, while much less educated than U.S. natives, are on average more educated than residents of Mexico, and 2) were Mexican immigrants in the United States to be paid according to current skill prices in Mexico they would tend to occupy the middle and upper portions of Mexico.s wage distribution. These results are inconsistent with the negative-selection hypothesis and suggest, instead, that in terms of observable skills there is intermediate or positive selection of immigrants from Mexico. The results also suggest that migration abroad may raise wage inequality in Mexico
  • Prostitutes and Picture Brides: Chinese and Japanese Immigration, Settlement, and American Nation-Building, 1870-1920* Catherine Lee** Department of Sociology, UCLA Center for Comparative Immigration Studies ********** Abstract. By examining the historical period from 1870-1920, this presentation will explore why most Chinese women were excluded from immigrating to the United States because they were assumed to be prostitutes while many Japanese women were allowed to immigrate as picture brides. Lee argues that the U.S. did not pass the Page Law of 1875 and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 or issue the Gentlemen's Agreement in 1907 for geopolitical reasons alone, as some scholars have argued. Using archival evidence, she contends that attempts to resolve the competing logics in "settling the west," which called for cheap labor and the permanent settlement of families on the West Coast, explain why the United States responded to the immigration of Chinese and Japanese women differently. These discrepant responses were a product of geopolitics, economic conditions, and class relations in the U.S, along with state and national fears over miscegenation and desires to maintain the imputed racial purity of a "white" national identity. In turn, U.S. immigration laws and policies helped to determine permanent settlement of immigrant communities and the racial and gendered character of the nation. This presentation suggests that nation-building is not simply the "imagining" of a community but is instead a negotiated process involving geopolitics, political economy, and cultural meanings of gender, race, and ethnicity.

    (working papers pubblicati sul sito del CCIS Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California-San Diego)


11 settembre

Conseguenze dell'11 settembre sulle comunità di immigrati negli Stati Uniti
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Educazione

  • Crossing Borders in the School Yard: The Formation of Transnational Social Spaces among Chinese and Mexican Immigrant Students by Carmina Brittain, Visiting Fellow, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, Working Paper No. 76 May 2003 - tratto da CCIS THE CENTER FOR COMPARATIVE IMMIGRATION STUDIES
    Abstract: This presentation analyzes how first generation immigrant students from China and Mexico experience American schooling within a transnational social space that is formed as immigrant children receive and share information about U.S. schools with their co-national (individuals born in their country of origin who reside in multiple localities across borders). This socialization with co-nationals crosses and overlaps boundaries in important and symbolic ways, establishing transnational social spaces in American schools. Framed as advice to immigrant children received from their co-nationals at three specific points in time: prior to immigrating, upon arrival to the U.S., and after a few years of living in the U.S. and attending American schools. Issues related to academic demands, teachers' and culture emerged as the "do's and don'ts" for immigrant children. This presentation concludes by arguing that immigrant children's adaptation to American schools is not only influenced by experiences localized in the United States, but also by experiences that link immigrants with their countries of origin.

  • Language Skills and Earnings: Evidence from childhood Immigrants by Hoyt Bleakley, UC San Diego, Working Paper No. 87 November 2003 - tratto da CCIS THE CENTER FOR COMPARATIVE IMMIGRATION STUDIES
    Abstract: Research on the effect of language skills on earnings is complicated by the endogeneity of language skills. This study exploits the phenomenon that younger children learn languages more easily than older children to construct an instrumental variable for language proficiency. We find a significant positive effect of English proficiency on wages among adults who immigrated to the U.S. as children. Much of this impact appears to be mediated through education. Differences between non-English-speaking origin countries and English-speaking ones that might make immigrants from the latter a poor control group for nonlanguage age-at-arrival effects do not drive these findings. (JEL J61, J24, J31


Centri di detenzione per stranieri negli USA

 


Condizione Abitativa



Riferimenti

 

Bibliografia

  • Dow, M. (2004). American Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons. The University of California Press
  • Brimelow, P. (1995). Alien nation: Common sense about America's immigration disaster. New York: Random House
  • Passel, J. S., & Edmonston, B. (1992). Immigration and race in the United States: The 20th and 21st centuries. Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute

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