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This book analyzes whether the ""new debate on genetics"" owes a debt to eugenic practices by welfare democracies of 1930s and 1940s. More specifically, the question is whether precisely the same ""eugenic rationale"" used in the 1930s is philosophical akin to a new rationality unfolding in some Western European welfare societies that find themselves trapped in the modern dilemma of choosing between increasing immigration and population growth that leads to economic prosperity on the one hand, or halting immigration, protecting national identity, and suffering economic stagnation on.

An analysis is made of English reactions to (1) present Commonwealth immigration, (2) Jewish immigration at the turn of the cent. In spite of diff's in historical background, close similarities are discovered, which are governed by the sociol'ly unique position shared by colored person & Jew; by the fact that each is, or is felt to be, the object of an hostility qualitatively & quantitatively diff from that experienced by 'foreigners.' In both cases, physically distinguishable groups of immigrants intensify their strangeness by crowding together into areas of Ur decay, for whose problems they become the scapegoat. This results in host images of invasion, fears of displacement, disease & mongrelization, & in memories of a mythical golden age. However, the expression of this hostility is muffled rather than increased by a consciousness of the immigrant's racial background. The fear of seeming to be associated with racial prejudice produces a pol'al reaction that is ambiguous, both in word & action, at every level (the inhabitants & agitators of the immigrant quarters, trade unions, Parliament, & gov). The role of the agitator is thus to legitimize hostility-to convince those for whom, & those to whom, it speaks that grievances against the immigrant are not to be subsumed under the disreputable category of prejudice. AA.

International migration between economically highly developed countries is a central component of global migration flows. Still, surprisingly little is known about the international mobility of the populations of these affluent societies. The aim of the German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study (GERPS) is to collect data to analyse the individual consequences of international migration as well as the consequences for the country of origin. GERPS is based on an origin-based multistage probability sample using the German population registers as a sampling frame. The realised net sample includes more than 11,000 persons who recently moved abroad from Germany and persons returning to Germany after having lived abroad. The study follows a multi-destination country design and allows comparative analyses of migrants and non-migrants who stayed in the country of origin. GERPS is a panel study with at least four waves during a period of at least 24 months. This documentation, however, presents the methodology and the data for the first wave providing the baseline survey. Detailed information is provided to invite external researchers to apply the new data infrastructure to their own research and to disseminate the innovative research design to construct migrant samples.

ABSTRACTUsing Singer's typology of different types of immigration gateways, this study mainly addresses how metropolitan area conditions impact ethnic labor force entrepreneurial choices across ethnicity and gender, within the contexts of different types of immigration gateways. Employing the 5 percent 2000 Integrated Public Usable Microdata Samples and a multilevel regression strategy, this study demonstrates that different types of immigration gateways have distinctive impacts on ethnic entrepreneurship. After controlling for both personal‐ and metropolitan‐level characteristics, it is found that whites and blacks are more likely to own businesses in newer immigration gateways, while Hispanics and Asians are more likely to do so in the more established gateways. In addition, differences as to the interaction effects of gender and regional labor markets are the most significant for blacks and Asians. Such interaction effects reshape gender differences in business ownership across ethnic groups.

Scholarship has sought to develop theoretical frameworks to set order on the rather muddled web of actors, interactions and tensions involved in asylum and immigration policies. The article considers three of them: the "venue shopping approach", the "multi-level governance approach" and critical humanitarian studies. The purpose is to contribute to this debate by elaborating the concept of "battleground" of asylum (and immigration) policies. With this concept, I mean that they are a contentious field in which different actors interact, cooperating or conflicting. Different levels of public responsibility are involved but also non-public actors play a role. They encompass various promigrant supporters but also xenophobic movements. The article will analyse the crucial actors involved, with a focus on the local level: pro-refugee civil society; coalitions of diverse pro-refugee actors; opponents to refugee reception; local governments acting for and against refugee and migrant reception and asylum seekers and irregular immigrants themselves.

Forming families in a context of illegality -- "It's because he wants papers" : choosing a romantic partner -- "You feel a little bit less" : gendered illegality and desirability when dating -- "It affects us, our future" : negotiating illegality as a mixed-status couple -- "It was time to take that step" : pursuing legalization through marriage -- "It's a constant struggle" : becoming and being parents -- "I can't offer them what other people could" : multigenerational punishment of citizen children -- Immigration policy and the future of Latino families -- Appendix A. Reflections on methods and positionality -- Appendix B. Demographic characteristics of study participants.

582Aliens — Claim for refugee status — Convention on the Status of Refugees, 1951 — Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 1984 — Applicant asylum seeker and torture claimant — Applicant entering Hong Kong on false passport — Secretary for Justice instituting criminal proceedings against applicant — Whether decisions of Secretary for Justice to prosecute applicant subject to judicial review — Hong Kong's Basic Law — Duties of courts in respect of new constitutional order in Hong Kong — Whether decisions of Secretary for Justice lawful — Whether decisions contradicting Secretary for Justice's own prosecution policy — Whether decisions undermining applicant's rights to seek asylum and protection from tortureRelationship of international law and municipal law — Convention on the Status of Refugees, 1951 — Applicability — Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 1984 — Customary international law — Applicant asylum seeker and torture claimant — Obligations of Hong Kong — Whether Hong Kong undertaking never to prosecute claimant entering Hong Kong illegally — The law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region