Threatened peoples, threatened borders : world migration and U.S. policy : the eightysixth American Assembly, November 10-13, 1994, Arden House, Harriman, New York ; The American Assembly, Columbia University
International migration has risen rapidly to the top of the agenda for both foreign and domestic U.S. policy. As a foreign policy challenge, migration has joined a list of critical global issues that includes the environment, population, and the international economy. Human dramas involving millions of refugees from Rwanda, Haiti, Cuba, and Bosnia, among many others, have been the focus of extensive media attention, and international migration has also become a decisive element in U.S. domestic politics, as in recent California and Florida elections. The influx of refugees, asylum seekers, and other international migrants is increasingly regarded as a major humanitarian challenge and a threat to national and international security. The full range of U.S. foreign policy issues must be involved, beyond those concerning refugees and migration policies alone. Can U.S. aid, trade, and investment policies affect the exodus of illegal migrants from sending countries? Can U.S. population and environmental policies have an impact? In this collection of original essays, sponsored by The American Assembly, some of America's leading authorities from government, academia, religious and other nonprofit organizations, the law, and the media examine the critical issues at hand for U.S. policy on migration
18 pages ; 22 cm
9780393037777, 0393037770
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Preface / Daniel A. Sharp
Introduction: Threatened Peoples, Threatened Borders: Migration and U.S. Foreign Policy / Michael S. Teitelbaum and Myron Weiner
1. Migration Patterns of U.S. Foreign Policy Interest / Sharon Stanton Russell
2. Migrants and Refugees: A Threat to Security? / Warren Zimmermann
3. From Invitation to Interdiction: U.S. Foreign Policy and Immigration since 1945 / Aristide R. Zolberg
4. Relationships between U.S. Foreign Policies and U.S. Immigration Policies / Sergio Diaz-Briquets
5. The Impact of U.S. Refugee Policies on U.S. Foreign Policy: A Case of the Tail Wagging the Dog? / Kathleen Newland
6. The Effects of International Migration on U.S. Foreign Policy / Charles B. Keely
7. Refugees: Concepts, Norms, Realities, and What the United States Can and Should Do / Carl Kaysen
8. How the International System Copes with Involuntary Migration: Norms, Institutions, and State Practice / Tom Farer
Final Report of the Eighty-Sixth American Assembly
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"For Spring 1995"--Page 2 of cover