International Migration and Security: Immigrants as an Asset or Threat? (Transnationalism)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 10
Notes on Contributors......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 18
Introduction......Page 20
Part I Political and Legal Security......Page 28
1 Immigration and Regional Security......Page 30
2 Rights Spillovers......Page 47
3 Human Rights for Immigrants and Immigrants for Human Rights......Page 70
4 From Foreigners to ‘Abnormal Aliens’......Page 83
5 Immigrants and the Host Polity......Page 101
Part II Cultural and Identity Security......Page 118
6 Cultural and Identity Security......Page 120
7 Immigrants, Refugees and Racism......Page 132
8 Language and Immigration......Page 148
9 Global, National and Local Identities......Page 166
Part III Personal and Economic Security......Page 176
10 Immigration and the Welfare State......Page 178
11 Migration: A Threat or an Asset to Health?......Page 193
12 Homeownership and the Integration of Immigrants in the United States......Page 210
13 Digestible Difference: Food, Ethnicity and Spatial Claims in the City......Page 236
14 Feeding the Festive City......Page 257
Part IV Conclusion......Page 274
Conclusions......Page 276
Index......Page 290