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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.

In the age of globalisation, the still uncertain and variable nature of family immigration is emerging in the complex relationship between identity redefinitions in the globalised cultural arena and the integration of the descendants of immigrants into the national order, which takes place on the socio-economic and political level of equal opportunities. ; In an age of globalization, the evolution of immigrant families, still uncertain and variable, will entail complex relationships involving not only identificatory redefinitions as played out on the worldwide cultural scene, but also the integration of descendentsof immigrants in the national scheme as played out on the socio-economic and political field of equal opportunity. ; In the age of globalisation, the still uncertain and variable nature of family immigration is emerging in the complex relationship between identity redefinitions in the globalised cultural arena and the integration of the descendants of immigrants into the national order, which takes place on the socio-economic and political level of equal opportunities. ; A l'ère de la mondialisation, le devenir encore incertain et variable selon les groupes de l'immigration familiale se noue dans les rapports complexes entre des redéfinitions identitaires qui se jouent sur la scène culturelle mondialisée, et l'intégration des descendants des immigrés dans l'ordre national, qui se joue sur le terrain socio-économique et politique de l'égalisation des chances.

Intro -- U.S. IMMIGRATION: KEY TRENDS, POLICIES AND PROGRAMS -- U.S. IMMIGRATION: KEY TRENDS, POLICIES AND PROGRAMS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY: CHART BOOK OF KEY TRENDS -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- HISTORICAL IMMIGRATION TRENDS -- LEGAL PERMANENT IMMIGRATION -- LEGAL TEMPORARY MIGRATION -- INADMISSIBILITY -- BORDER SECURITY -- EMPLOYMENT ELIGIBILITY VERIFICATION -- WORKSITE ENFORCEMENT -- ALIEN REMOVALS -- CRIMINAL ALIENS -- UNAUTHORIZED RESIDENT ALIENS -- End Note -- Chapter 2 PERMANENT LEGAL IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES: POLICY OVERVIEW -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- CURRENT LAW AND POLICY -- Worldwide Immigration Levels -- Per-country Ceilings -- Family and Employment-Based Preferences -- Other Permanent Immigration Categories -- IMMIGRATION TRENDS -- Immigration Patterns, 1900-2010 -- FY2011 Admissions -- APPROVED VISA PETITIONS PENDING -- Visa Processing Dates -- Family-Based Visa Priority Dates -- Employment-Based Visa Priority Dates -- CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS -- End Notes -- Chapter 3 THE U.S. FOREIGN-BORN POPULATION: TRENDS AND SELECTED CHARACTERISTICS -- SUMMARY -- EXAMINE THE FOREIGN BORN? -- Foreign-Born Population Growth in Historical Context -- FOREIGN ORIGINS AND U.S. DESTINATIONS -- Region of Birth -- Country of Birth -- Geographic Distribution in the United States -- Period of Arrival -- LEGAL STATUS OF THE FOREIGN BORN -- Unauthorized Foreign Born -- Legal Residents -- Naturalized Citizens -- DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS -- Age Composition -- Household and Family Structure and Size -- EDUCATION AND SKILLS -- Educational Attainment -- English Language Ability -- EMPLOYMENT -- Labor Force Participation -- Employment by Industrial Sector -- Occupational Distribution -- ECONOMIC WELL-BEING -- Median Income -- Poverty -- CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS -- APPENDIX -- Data Sources and Limitations