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Analysing asylum in Britain and Germany from a historical and conceptual perspective, this book provides a comparative study of asylum and refugee policies.

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Political technocrats in Mexico are a group of individuals whose level of education, discipline of study, experiences abroad and career all lead them to stress the use of specialized knowledge for solving human and social problems. Political technocrats have been increasing in number in Mexico and they now dominate the agencies responsible for allocating federal revenues to economic and social problems

This paper is based on a study which compares repatriation policies of Germany, Russia, and Kazakhstan. The choice of cases is based on a "most similar case design." The Russian case results in unsuccessful and unsustainable repatriation, the German case exhibits a change from sustainable repatriation to a slow termination of the program, while the case of Kazakhstan is one of sustainable and relatively successful repatriation. The main argument of the paper is that in order for a repatriation program to be sustainable, the program must contain both a practical component and an ideological component. If a repatriation program lacks ideological backing which permeates other aspects of political life in a state, then the repatriation program grinds to a halt. If a repatriation program has ideological backing, but is rendered impractical and does not meet the economic, demographic and labor market needs of a state, then the further development of the program stops. The findings of this study merit further reflection on issues of changing national identities, on transnational migration pathways, and on the "post-Soviet condition" which has set the stage for all of the aforementioned processes and transformations.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- PART ONE: POINTS OF DEPARTURE -- 1. The Subject and Method -- 2. Antecedents and Prototypes of the System -- PART TWO: THE ANATOMY OF THE CLASSICAL SYSTEM -- 3. Power -- 4. Ideology -- 5. Property -- 6. Coordination Mechanisms -- 7. Planning and Direct Bureaucratic Control -- 8. Money and Price -- 9. Investment and Growth -- 10. Employment and Wages -- 11. Shortage and Inflation: The Phenomena -- 12. Shortage and Inflation: The Causes -- 13. Consumption and Distribution -- 14. External Economic Relations -- 15. The Coherence of the Classical System -- PART THREE: SHIFTING FROM THE CLASSICAL SYSTEM -- 16. The Dynamics of the Changes -- 17. The "Perfection" of Control -- 18. Political Liberalization -- 19. The Rise of the Private Sector -- 20. Self-Management -- 21. Market Socialism -- 22. Price Reforms -- 23. Macro Tensions -- 24. Concluding Remarks -- References -- Appendix: Bibliography on Postsocialist Transition -- Author Index -- Subject Index