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Human rights implications of immigration restrictions; focus on Europe; 5 articles.

Today various countries actively promote business migration programs to bring in more resourceful immigrants, thereby increasing immigration channels for people with physical capital. How to match the right migrants with the right destinations has become a business niche for private agencies. In this article, I analyze the impact of the immigration industry on the immigration process, based on a case study of Taiwanese business immigration. Immigration consultants have facilitated recent Taiwanese business migration by increasing awareness of business migration programs, providing needed assistance and organizing the actual migration process. The involvement of immigration consultants in facilitating the migration of the wealthy class represents one of the outstanding characteristics of the so-called "new Asian migration." Data are mainly from various documentary sources and in-depth interviews with immigration consulting firms.

Selected topics and policy issues on immigrants and immigration into the US; gays and lesbians, gangs, religion, and tattoos, Romanian Gypsies, terrorism and counterterrorism, social justice, cultural identity and Burmese American Buddhists, and women and Pentecostal experience; 7 articles. Contents: Gays and lesbians in the U.S. immigration process, by Lorrie Rank; Migrant gangs, religion and tattoo removal, by Luis Enrique Bazan, Liliana Harris, and Lois Ann Lorentzen; Romanian Gypsies, by Valeriu Nicolae; Immigrants, terrorism and counter-terrorism, by Henry F. Carey; Immigration and social justice, by David Ingram; Cultural identity and Burmese American Buddhists, by Joseph Cheah; Women, migration, and the Pentecostal experience, by Rosalina Mira and Lois Ann Lorentzen.

Jagdish Bhagwati and Francisco RiveraBatiz ('A Kinder, Gentler Immigration Policy,' November/December 2013) recommend that the United States stop trying to prevent illegal immigrants from entering the country, since that will never work, and instead let the states compete for them. This alluring proposal requires some judicious examination. Adapted from the source document.

Slowing the wave, by James C. Clad; Myths about immigrants, by Jeffrey S. Passel and Michael Fix.