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This volume presents chapters on the theme of borders and migration, written for the annual meetings of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. It features three lead chapters and a series of responses by other scholars drawn from the fields of law, political science, and philosophy

Due to the economic crisis, from the beginning of the new century many of Portugal's former immigrants have moved on to Spain and other European countries, in parallel with the increase in Portuguese emigration. In the context of Southern Europe, Portugal faces a singular situation. Similarly to Spain, Italy and Greece, the country registered a strong immigration in the late 1990s. However, in the early years of the new century immigration has decreased. At the same time, emigration has continued and a new wave of emigrants has left the country, mostly directed towards Spain. As regards government policy, admission and integration have been addressed but emigration has not seriously been looked into.

A primer on U.S. immigration policy / William A. Kandel -- Immigration: U.S. asylum policy / Andorra Bruno -- U.S. family-based immigration policy (updated) / William A. Kandel -- Immigration: frequently asked questions about "public charge" / Ben Harrington -- Permanent legal immigration to the United States: policy overview (updated) / William A. Kandel -- Permanent employment-based immigration and the per-country ceiling / William A. Kandel -- Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands: DHS implementation of U.S. immigration laws / David Gootnick

Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Immigration as a Never-ending Saga -- Immigration as a Twenty-first Century Dilemma -- Theme and Variation in Immigration -- Constants in Immigration Experience -- Variations on the Theme -- Twenty-First-Century Immigration Patterns and the Role of Refugees as Triggers of Crisis -- A Framework for Analysis -- Immigration Theory -- The Utility of a Cross-disciplinary Framework -- Why Compare American and European Experiences? -- Geography and Its Limits -- History as Guide to the Present -- Relations with Neighbors -- Colonialism -- Immigration History as Pluralism or Segregation -- Economic Factors in Immigration -- Political Actors and Alignments -- Formal Actors: Institutions of Government and Their Partisan Bases -- Informal Political Forces: Interest Groups and Public Opinion -- For Further Reading -- Chapter 2 The United States: Immigration Model or Nation of Continuous Conflict? -- Immigration as Defined by Geography: The Physical Context -- Immigration in American History -- Immigration as a History of Surges and Ebbs -- Immigration as a History of Loosely Regulated Indifference -- Immigration as the Great Urban Experiment -- Immigration as Historical Inconsistency -- Immigration as Historical Myth and Current Reality -- Economic Factors in American Immigration -- Basic Economic Drivers of Immigration -- The Role of Immigrants in the Economic Structure -- The Appeal of Temporary Immigration -- The Key Role of Population Maintenance and Growth -- Lingering Economic Questions -- Political Climates and Alignments in Deciding Immigration Issues -- The Setting: Social and Cultural Elements in the Political Debate -- Partisan Bases of Division on Policy -- Parties and Governments Responding: State Immigration Laws

Several Mexican state governments have created institutions and developed public policies to benefit their emigrants abroad following the federal government's lead. The main objective of this article is two-fold: first, to analyze the three sociopolitical factors that influenced the emergence of emigration policy at the state level, and second, to examine two strategic activities undertaken by state governments in the Central Western region. Public agencies for international migrants carry out various actions such as administering federal government programs, preserving regional identities, promoting human and civil rights for migrants, locating missing persons, and processing official documents. Many of these activities are complementary to those undertaken by federal government. However, some of these agencies play a strategic role in the repatriation of the bodies of Mexican migrants that die in the United States and the management of temporary employment abroad for their citizens. ; Varios gobiernos estatales en México han creado instituciones y desarrollado políticas públicas para beneficiar a sus emigrantes en el extranjero, siguiendo el ejemplo del gobierno federal. El objetivo principal de este artículo tiene dos vertientes: primero, analizar los tres factores sociopolíticos que influyeron en el surgimiento de la política de emigración a nivel estatal y, en segundo lugar, examinar dos actividades estratégicas llevadas a cabo por gobiernos estatales en la región centro-occidente. Las agencias públicas para migrantes internacionales llevan a cabo diversas acciones tales como la administración de programas federales, la preservación de las identidades regionales, la promoción de los derechos humanos y civiles de los migrantes, la localización de personas perdidas y el trámite de documentos oficiales. Muchas de estas actividades son complementarias a las que realiza el gobierno federal; sin embargo, algunas de estas agencias tienen un papel estratégico en la repatriación de los restos de los migrantes mexicanos que mueren en Estados Unidos y en la gestión del empleo temporal para sus ciudadanos en el exterior.

Cover -- Living Together, Living Apart -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Epigraph: The Freedom to Move -- Foreword -- Introduction: Living Together, Living Apart: Mixed-Status Families and US Immigration Policy -- Part I. Living Together, Living Apart: Stories of Separation -- 1. The Purpose of My Trip to Tijuana -- 2. Life and Love outside the Citizenship Binary: The Lived Experiences of Mixed-Status Couples in the United States -- 3. Transnational Mixed-Status Families: Critical Challenges in Cross-Border Relationships over Time -- 4. Dependents of the State: Navigating the Immigration and Child Welfare Apparatus at the San Diego-Tijuana Border -- 5. "We Thought We Had a Future": Adversity and Resilience in Mixed-Status Families -- 6. Being Mixed-Status -- Part II. Experiences of Inequality: Legal Status and Family Well-Being -- 7. Voice of an American-Mexican -- 8. Mixed-Status Families in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas: Health Disparities along the US-Mexico Border -- 9. "Someday I'm Going to Have Papers!" (¡Algún Día Yo Voy a Tener Papeles!): Mixed-Status Families in the Rural South -- 10. The Green Card Waiting Game: U Visa Holders, Mixed-Status Famlies, and Marginal Membership -- 11. "El Otro Lado" (The Other Side) -- Part III. The Public Face of Illegal: Confronting Legal Institutions and the Media -- 12. MIXED-UP -- 13. Constructing Mixed-Status Families in Public Discourse -- 14. Qualifying Relatives: US Immigration Policies and Family Reunification or Deunification? -- 15. From Driving to Deportation: Experiences of Mixed-Status Immigrant Families under "Secure Communities" -- 16 Dynamics and Ramifications of US Immigration and Visa Policies: Nepali Transnational Workers, Families, and Children in the United States -- 17. Bringing Pedro Home -- 18. My Path to Happiness -- Contributors -- Index.

Immigration legislation is a debated subject among the attentive public and political operatives, at both the national and sub-national level of government, in the United States. In recent years, the American government has been more likely to pass new laws, with many states issuing new punitive measures intended to discourage migration into the US from Latin America. The move by sub-governments breaks with an historical pattern whereby immigration policy directives were the purview of the national government. American state governments, arguably, have been stirred to act because of gridlock a